Facebook Platform

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Facebook Platform". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article... Read Full Story

On November 14th @ the Tempe Center for the Arts Terralever hosted Phoenix’s first Facebook Developer’s Garage. The event was a great success.  I especially enjoyed the presentations by Chris Johnson  of Terralever and Dave Morin of Facebook. I encourage everyone to look at Chris slides on marketing a Facebook application. For those of you who might be interested in what I spoke about take a look at my 15 min presentation on the “Anatomy of a Facebook App”  With so little time,  I was unable... Read Full Story

In interactive application development we love our ability to track and analyze the behavior of our users.   Through tools like Google analytics and Urchin, web sites can monitor and analyze where their users are going, and more importantly how those users are getting there.    As our company delves deeper into creating applications for the Facebook platform, we have realized that analysis of users behavior is extremely important.  It is no secret that very few companies have mastered how to... Read Full Story

Maybe its just a temporary thing, but lately the Facebook server has had major issues with caching images.  If you are unaware, all images that are placed within a users profile page get scraped by Facebook and served up from their own internal servers.  If for some unforeseen reason there scraper fails your image gets replaced with an invisible pixel spacer gif.  To force the cache to update you have to manually call the fbml_refreshImgSrc method on their REST server.  The easiest way to... Read Full Story