Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
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.
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.
First Look: Postbox Beta
Posted on February 2, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Mac Downloads, Windows Downloads
Postbox is a new cross-platform for both Mac and Windows that promises to finally deliver what so many email clients before it have promised. Advanced functionality like Outlook, without, well, Outlook. More native features and intuitive interface than Thunderbird. Conversation threading and tagging like Gmail, without the inelegant webmail interface. Can it be so? Well, [...]
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 [...]
Trying out Facebook Connect
Posted on January 25, 2009 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
After much deliberation, I have decided to give Facebook Connect a shot on Snipe.Net. Those of you who read this site regularly may remember that I had quite a lot to say about using Facebook Connect last month, so it may seem odd that I’m making this decision. I’ll explain.
Advertising on Facebook Applications – An Experiment
Posted on January 10, 2009 by snipe in Web Development
This article has been deprecated, and has been replaced by the new series Advertising on Facebook.The new series goes into more detail about social network ad companies, pros and cons, and updated results based on my own Facebook application. Please update your bookmarks and linkbacks. Click here to go to part one of the series [...]
Facebook Connect – a More Authentic Web, Or Loss of Privacy?
Posted on December 11, 2008 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Facebook recently launched their new Facebook Connect API, which extends some impressive Facebook functionality into websites who opt to use the Facebook Connect system. Websites that implement Facebook Connect will be able to offer their users an easy way of connecting to their Facebook friends from Facebook Connected website, and actions the user takes on [...]
Planning a Facebook Application: Part Two
Posted on December 5, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
I know I promised you that we’d get into some code in the next part in this series, but the article is coming out much longer than I anticipated, as I expect it to be one of the most thorough articles out there regarding Facebook application design. Part two of this series will walk through [...]
Facebook and MySpace Users, Beware!
Posted on November 7, 2008 by snipe in Featured, Tips & Tricks
I have received two virus emails from two unrelated friends, indicating their accounts have been compromised. The messages are being sent through Facebook and both have had a spammy sounding subject line and a link to a geocities website. This was suspicious enough, but the fact that one message came from a friend I haven’t [...]
