Facebook Web Development References Facebook Graph API Facebook SDK for PHP Facebook Graph API Explorer Facebook Developers: My Apps for details about apps that I develop. Facebook Apps Management from the user's point of view, ie ... (more)
I'm not one to complain about a free service like Facebook, especially when it works so well at keeping people in touch, but... I was very surprised to discover that links I view (but don't like) in my feed appear in friends' timelines. All ... (more)
UStream is getting into a bit of a muddle with its facebook connect integration. They have a flash chat app which sits above everything else on the UI, including the DIV they load up automatically inviting you to connect with facebook. This ... (more)
This is my big Facebook prediction for 2012: support for dead people. For now, only living, real people are supposed to be on Facebook, and I don't know what the protocol is for Facebook members when they die. What I imagine is that living ... (more)
Facebook has opened a new datacenter, to house thousands of servers that power its immense web platform. This one is in Prineville, Oregon, and has been designed from the ground up with efficiency and sustainability as key objectives. It uses ... (more)
The fantastic people at Facebook certainly know how to progress, improve and revolutionise. They sometimes take flak for a new feature, especially if it goes against how people currently use this massive social platform. In the case of Timeline ... (more)
If you'd like to publish your Facebook status updates on your own website, it takes a bit of figuring out. Fortunately, the instructions at techlifeweb.com explain how to do it. Here is my status feed: (more)
Facebook makes its new Graph interface sound so simple, but what about Facebook OpenGraph? This is where third-party web sites specify extra meta data on their pages, so that Facebook can do a better job of determining what each page is about ... (more)
Facebook has opened up its commenting system to all websites. What this means is that there is no need for a website owner to develop, run and moderate their own comments platform, and they will also be able to benefit from the comments being ... (more)
From Marketing Pilgrim, Facebook is borrowing $100 million for more servers which should see it clear to getting another 50000 servers. By way of comparison, Google has over 1 million servers, adding 500000 per year. Microsoft adds 200000 ... (more)
Here's a user-agent you'll need to add to your list of robots: facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php) I think it gets hit during a 'share' (when Facebook itself visits your site to retrieve page information ... (more)