Author Archive: Anna
I'm a developer with Momentus Media. I've done the gamut of OLAP DB modeling to iPhone development and Ruby on Rails. Now, I'm in the fast lane of rapid, viral app development on Facebook.
Choosing The Best Facebook Promotion For Your Brand
We’re hosting a meetup for the Social Media and SEO Society of SF at our offices this Thursday night (6/2 6pm) if you’re interested. We’ll have some drinks and snacks! Event details at the MeetUp site. About this Meetup: In our last Meetup we talked about the elements that make up a viral Facebook campaign. [...]
Category: events
How Many of Your Fans Really See, or Even Like, Your Feed Stories?
From a recent article by Robin Davey of GROWVision (via Jackie Cohen of AllFacebook): I simply posted on my wall asking anyone who saw the post to like it. Of my 913 friends, 93 responded by clicking the like button. I recently conducted this experiment too, and I’d like to note that it’s largely a [...]
Making a Simple Facebook App in 20 minutes
Create a simple app using OAuth2, iFrames, and the Facebook Social Graph. Create app Go to Facebook.com/developers/createapp.php. Type in your ideal app name, accept the terms. Pass the kaptcha. You are not just a robot! Create paths On the developer page, select “Facebook Integration”. Create: Canvas page: The application’s location on Facebook Canvas url: The [...]
Category: App Development, Facebook
Posting To Your Facebook Feed as Page, not User
You want to post to your Facebook page’s feed, from an app, and have it appear as the page owner/admin, not as an individual, right? It used to be one way, now it’s another. 1- Get permissions with “manage feed” between the app, the user, and the page. Let’s call this access_token1. 2- Using that [...]
Category: Facebook, Tech, Techniques
Facebook Hackfest 2/3
We’re opening up our office for a hackfest! Come and enjoy some pizza, beer, and knowledge. Want to try Facebook’s Open Graph? Find out techniques to get more fans on your page, or just figure out why that one app didn’t go viral? We’ll also have some short talks on app development, social media, and [...]
Category: App Development, Virality, events
Why Create a Facebook App?
The other night my friend yelled at me: “I hate Facebook!” I didn’t know if he was yelling because it was a crowded bar, or because he really truly does hate Facebook. What he’s learned, he told me later when it had quieted down, is that it’s a necessary evil in his line of work- [...]
Category: App Development, Apps
Holiday Round-up: Top Apps
The holidays have always seen a burst of odd creativity on Facebook- see this Mashable list from 2007- I personally like the “drunk Santa” app. This year, photo-tagging was definitely big, but it was used last year, as well. The difference perhaps, is slightly more complex apps and reaching out more to the social graph. [...]
Third Party Cookies, OAuth2.0, iFrames for Facebook Dev
We ran into an issue with one of our apps that no cookie was being set, for users that had browsers the “third party cookies” setting disabled, in FireFox (see picture). According to the official word, Facebook doesn’t support this. Thing is, if you’re creating a PHP application in iFrames, it’s necessary to get that [...]
Facebook PhotoTag Tips
Lately photo tagging is running rampant in the Facebook app world. In the few apps I’ve done using tagging, there was a sore lack of documentation. To remedy that, I thought I’d write up some of my learnings. With photo-tagging, the data is labeled differently when read than when written. FYI- I’m using the PHP-SDK [...]
Category: Facebook, Tech, Techniques, phototagging
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