Posts Tagged ‘facebook’
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This article has been deprecated, and has been replaced by the new series Advertising on Facebook.The new series goes into more detail about social network ad companies, pros and cons, and updated results based on my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 [...]
Planning Your Facebook Application
Posted on September 27, 2008 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
This is part one of a series – the technical how-to of creating the application will be discussed in a separate article. This article is intended to help you plan out your application to best prepare for coding and best leverage the new aspects of Facebook for exposure and social interaction.
Free Online Image Editors
Posted on June 22, 2008 by snipe in Featured, Graphics
Even if you’ve got a good graphics package (and more specifically if you don’t), there may be times when you just need something lightweight to resize or crop images. Fortunately, there are two great options available to you that make basic image editing a breeze. Resize2Email: This handy little app is lightweight and fast. The [...]
