Posts Tagged ‘social networks’
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 [...]
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.
Using Twitter for Business?
Posted on August 28, 2008 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life, Tips & Tricks
Two interesting articles have come out recently, discussing tips and techniques for people interested in using Twitter as a business or marketing tool. As I work for an advertising agency that specializes in leveraging new technologies (such as Facebook applications) to market towards a younger, more tech-savvy audience, this is something I was particularly interested [...]
My favorite blogging tools
Posted on June 19, 2008 by in Featured, Geek Life
With all the social networks out there, how do you maximize your posting while minimizing your effort? As a member of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Last.Fm, and a dozen other large social networks, it can be hard to prioritize when and where you post. LiveJournal is my personal blog platform, but reposting to LiveJournal and [...]
