Posts Tagged ‘facebook applications’
Big Changes to the Facebook Platform
Posted on October 29, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Last night, during a webcast, Facebook announced some upcoming significant changes to the Facebook platform. Most are good, a few may be frustrating, but here they are. These changes will start to be rolled out in November & December and will continue into the first and second quarter of 2010.
Changes to Facebook’s Newsfeed/Wall
Posted on April 30, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
With the most recent API changes, specifically the one that changed the way fan pages behave so that they look and behave more like Facebook user profiles, Facebook also made a significant change in how newsfeeds work in applications.
%$#^%$* Facebook Application Tabs
Posted on April 30, 2009 by snipe in Web Development
So this is new. And by new I mean painfully similar to the types of major functionality bugs we see every time there is a large-scale functionality change in Facebook.
Some Notes on Moving to Mosso
Posted on February 16, 2009 by snipe in Web Development
It’s been over a month since I opened my account with Mosso, Rackspace’s cloud hosting division. Overall, I’ve been very happy with my decision – but there are a few things you may want to be aware of if you’re considering switching.
Advertising on Facebook – Part Three
Posted on February 9, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Part three of this series will deal specifically with an important issue that had come up in part one: Some users, albeit a tiny percentage of overall users, were encountering a malware warning on pages where SocialCash ads are being served.
Advertising on Facebook – Part Two
Posted on February 2, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
In part one of this series, we talked about your options – and possible concessions you may have to make if you opt to advertise on Facebook applications. Part two will discuss the returns I have seen so far based on my own applications, and the ad network’s payout schedule.
Advertising on Facebook – Part One
Posted on February 2, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
I have a Facebook application that seems to be doing rather well – over 100k monthly active users after just two months, and gaining by about 1.5k every day. I’ve been toying with trying to monetize that in some way, and the most obvious way (that requires the least amount of effort) is to add [...]


