A blog about Social Media by John Maver and Cappy Popp
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Our book, Essential Facebook Development, is now available.
The synopsis:
With more than 300 million active users, Facebook is the world’s #1 social networking platform. But developing successful Facebook applications presents unique challenges, both technical and nontechnical. Now, two of the world’s most experienced Facebook developers show you exactly how to meet those challenges. Essential Facebook Development [...]
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Today Facebook presented a 6-month developer roadmap. Finally – it’s been frustrating as hell writing a book about Facebook and not knowing what was coming from them and when, not to mention staying abreast of all the changes for our clients. In their presentation Facebook said that there were not many or big changes being [...]
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Our publisher, Addison-Wesley Professional, has graciously published ‘Rough Cuts’ - that means they still need final edits – of the first five chapters of our upcoming book, Facebook Development: A Complete Guide to Smart Application Development for the Facebook Platform, on InformIT’s Safari Books Online. Rough Cuts allow readers to get access to the book [...]
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This is a very handy feature, especially if you have to write your code in Actionscript 2 for which the Flash CS4 debugger is terrible, terrible, terrible. Trace messages are great but when your Flash .swf is running in a browser, and needs to (for instance if it is running on a Facebook application and [...]
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Here are my slides from my presentation this morning at GSP East. Please let me know if you have any questions.
You can also get them on slideshare here.
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Here is my slide deck from GSP East workshop on creating a Bebo Application.
Link to Slideshare.com. The notes for each slide contain additional information useful in building your first application.
Post any questions below or on the Bebo Forums.
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A tutorial in how to build a Bebo Application using PHP. Shows how to build a canvas page, profile box, generate news stories, and allow invites.
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I came across this issue today where I was getting an error when trying to add the <Fb:page-admin-edit-header/> to a canvas page of a page-only app.
The app was installed on a Facebook Page of which I was an admin.
Basically I had the following situation:
[0] canvas page that had <Fb:page-admin-edit-header/> rendered correctly at top when the [...]
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