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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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Cappy Popp will be speaking at a MITX event Wednesday, June 24, 2009 on a panel titled,  ’Web Marketing on a Shoestring – Being Scrappy in a Down Economy’. The second installment of the MITX Marketing Technology Series, an educational series designed to explore the platforms, systems and infrastructures that allow marketers to execute efficiently, will be [...]

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Post image for First Chapters of Our Book ‘Facebook Development: A Complete Guide to Smart Application Development for the Facebook Platform’ Now Available!

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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Mike Langford, fellow panelist and CEO of Tweetworks, has posted video of the panel discussion from the Girls in Tech Boston event held on May 6th, 2009 at Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Center. You can view the video here. Along with Mike, Cappy was joined by the following panelists: Rachel Happe, Co-Founder, Community Roundtable Karen Rubin, [...]

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Thought Labs’s Cappy Popp will be speaking on a panel titled, “Linked in – How to Increase Sales” on Thursday, June 18, 2009 from 11:45A – 1:30P at the Clark University Graduate Management Center in Framingham, MA. This should be an interesting event; it will undoubtedly be covering a much broader range of topics related to [...]

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Facebook today announced Quick Transitions, an Ajax-backed technology for enabling faster canvas page loads in Facebook Applications. Does it work? Not at the moment.

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Dealing with negative comments on Twitter or your blog is an effective skill that can help turn detractors into advocates.

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Facebook Pages have changed; they are now more like Facebook user profiles. So, how do you deal with their status messages? How do you get them from the API and what can go wrong?

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Facebook says they will soon be updating the developer application that allows you to manage your applications. It’s about time. It’s a mess at the moment. As long as they don’t break the application setup APIs this will be great. Check it out for yourself here.

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Getting your startup its first round of investment is a complex process. This post clarifies the funding process using real input from actual VC and Angel investors. Discover the critical ‘qualifying questions,’ how to find the right investor, and how to create an effective pitch.

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