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Facebook Alters Beacon System

30 November 2007

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Changing the way Facebook handles the Beacon system was inevitable based in user concern. While they are trying to calm the waters with this change, they still need to take a few more steps. At the very least they need to provide a page of companies using the Beacon system and let Facebook users choose [...]

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Do You Know What Facebook’s Beacon Project Is?

24 November 2007

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I really don’t like this Project Beacon from Facebook. Even though I spend time developing applications that use services like Facebook, this one is personal. Take for instance these entries from the main user feed in Facebook: While I appreciate the ability to advertisers to make connections with customers and their social networks, people have to [...]

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Communities Do Matter For Developers

14 November 2007

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The guys over at Lonely CEO pointed to a blog post of mine where it mentions I’m a Utah Facebook Developer. First, as I’ve said before, there was a reason I mentioned I develop Facebook applications and I live in Utah. But second, it is extremely important people know what community you live and work [...]

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Hosting Designed For Facebook Applications

12 November 2007

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Joyent has announced a new hosting service specifically targeting Facebook applications. Facebook doesn’t host third party applications, that’s up to the responsibility of the application developer. If an application becomes popular that can really put a strain on the applications server and the developers pocket book. Joyent, a start up web hosting and on [...]

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Facebook Pages Get You Noticed

11 November 2007

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Facebook recently launched a new feature to their fairly closed site called Pages. Everyone is hung up on the advertising part of pages. But, a savvy networker can create a page as an external profile. Unless you are a Facebook member you really can’t see much. But now with a Page you can create something [...]

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