Wednesday I had the great opportunity to participate in the second annual f8 developers conference in San Francisco.  Last year I attended on behalf of Terralever, one of only about 30 selected launch partners.   A few weeks before the first f8, Terralever was asked to develop two proof of concepts apps that demonstrated the [...]

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Check out this article on Cnn that describes the recent privacy breach that caught Facebook with there pants down.  A security lapse allowed strangers to access photos of Facebook member and their friends, even if the privacy settings were set to restrict who could see the photos.
With over 67 million active users, Facebook will always [...]

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This morning Facebook announced that it has made some significant changes to its new advertising program called Beacon to give its users better control over how their online purchases might be broadcast to that users Facebook friends. Tens of thousands of users have been complaining that there personal privacy has been compromised when Facebooks [...]

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In interactive application development we love our ability to track and analyze the behavior of our users. Through tools like Google analytics and Urchin, web sites can monitor and analyze where their users are going, and more importantly how those users are getting there.
As our company delves deeper into creating applications [...]

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On November 14th @ the Tempe Center for the Arts Terralever hosted Phoenix’s first Facebook Developer’s Garage. The event was a great success.  I especially enjoyed the presentations by Chris Johnson  of Terralever and Dave Morin of Facebook. I encourage everyone to look at Chris slides on marketing a Facebook application. For those of you who might be interested [...]

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Yesterday I read this interesting article titled Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook. The basis of the article was Google’s new alliances, which they hope will give them a way to take on Facebook. Specifically, Facebook’s recent decision to allow developers the ability to write against the Facebook platform API. The article states [...]

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Maybe its just a temporary thing, but lately the Facebook server has had major issues with caching images.  If you are unaware, all images that are placed within a users profile page get scraped by Facebook and served up from their own internal servers.  If for some unforeseen reason there scraper fails your image gets replaced with [...]

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This past week Facebook added a new method on their REST server for sending news and mini feed stories. The method is “feed.publishTemplatizedAction” and the intent of this method is to replace the existing “feed.publishActionOfUser” with a method that is more “templatized”. Here is a sample we created which is a combination of static text [...]

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On November 14th @ the Tempe Center for the Arts Terralever will be hosting Phoenix’s inaugural Facebook Developer’s Garage. Anyone who is interested in diving deep into the Facebook Platform is welcome to join. The event is a forum to share ideas with local developers and listen to interesting presentations on the planning, development, implementation, [...]

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For those of you who have embarked on writing a Facebook app, you may have faced the challenge of how to automatically update your profile fbml without forcing a user to take action. The approach I have found most effective is to use the <fbml:ref> tag. Facebook defines this command as a tag which “fetches [...]

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