What Facebook features do you use?
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I haven't spent much time on Facebook for my own purposes, but now I have a client requirement to automate posts of their articles onto their profile via Facebook's API. So, I brought up the site & have been browsing the RTFM Help section with either embarrassing ignorance or admirable zen-like beginner's mind, depending on your point of view. So, it appears that you can update your status on the Wall. Groovy I suppose, but doesn't seem to really be the best vehicle for posting an article on a Facebook profile. Events look useful, but not every article is an event. Of course, you can link to an article on your own site, but my current understanding is they want to post full articles on Fb. And then there are videos, photos, etc. What Facebook features do you guys use for presenting article sized text blocks?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
modified on Monday, January 25, 2010 10:28 AM
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Gave up on Orkut then? For some reason Orkut is popular in just India/Brazil, it's not very popular in the US except among Indian and Brazilian Americans. So it's not that useful for you as an advertising medium.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkOrkut is rubbish. The crowd is extremely puerile, and most (OK, many) people I know have the picture of whichever hero or heroine is ruling the roost of Tamil cinema on their profiles. Don't even get me started on sprinkling Unicode symbols all over their display names or changing them to "Sneezing in New Jersey". I don't know why I haven't deleted my Orkut profile yet.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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Orkut is rubbish. The crowd is extremely puerile, and most (OK, many) people I know have the picture of whichever hero or heroine is ruling the roost of Tamil cinema on their profiles. Don't even get me started on sprinkling Unicode symbols all over their display names or changing them to "Sneezing in New Jersey". I don't know why I haven't deleted my Orkut profile yet.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Orkut is rubbish. The crowd is extremely puerile, and most (OK, many) people I know have the picture of whichever hero or heroine is ruling the roost of Tamil cinema on their profiles. Don't even get me started on sprinkling Unicode symbols all over their display names or changing them to "Sneezing in New Jersey".
Yeah, I hear you there. It's not just their profile pictures, their albums are often full of movie stars too :-)
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
I don't know why I haven't deleted my Orkut profile yet.
I own a major community and I am trying to get that transferred to someone else. Once I do that I intend to delete my profile.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Glad to see you're not dead yet.
Hopefully that's a long way off. What have you been up to? Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
What have you been up to?
Ah, the usual: drugs, prostitutes, and getting fat. Pretty much the norm for any developer. :) I'm actually losing the fat - again. Started hitting the gym again this past May, so it's been about 8 months into it. And that's my life... what's been going on in your neck of the woods?
Jeremy Falcon
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I haven't spent much time on Facebook for my own purposes, but now I have a client requirement to automate posts of their articles onto their profile via Facebook's API. So, I brought up the site & have been browsing the RTFM Help section with either embarrassing ignorance or admirable zen-like beginner's mind, depending on your point of view. So, it appears that you can update your status on the Wall. Groovy I suppose, but doesn't seem to really be the best vehicle for posting an article on a Facebook profile. Events look useful, but not every article is an event. Of course, you can link to an article on your own site, but my current understanding is they want to post full articles on Fb. And then there are videos, photos, etc. What Facebook features do you guys use for presenting article sized text blocks?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
modified on Monday, January 25, 2010 10:28 AM
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Marc Clifton wrote:
What have you been up to?
Ah, the usual: drugs, prostitutes, and getting fat. Pretty much the norm for any developer. :) I'm actually losing the fat - again. Started hitting the gym again this past May, so it's been about 8 months into it. And that's my life... what's been going on in your neck of the woods?
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Pretty much the norm for any developer.
The fat I can relate to. The drugs and prostitutes, hmmm, got enough debt going as it is!
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
what's been going on in your neck of the woods?
Well, I did a 5 month stint in NYC working on Wall St because I couldn't find any contract work. That's definitely the worst experience in my life, working for a big bank (ticker "C", oh, did I just say that???) Ended up with two great contracts from a couple old clients, so now I'm back at home, working happily. Broke up with my narcissistic gf over Christmas, best decision I've made in a long time. Have been playing lots of Texas Hold'em, thoroughly enjoying the game. My son is going to college, he got his driver's license, and I'm enjoying being "in the money" again for now, at least. *Whew* Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
What have you been up to?
Ah, the usual: drugs, prostitutes, and getting fat. Pretty much the norm for any developer. :) I'm actually losing the fat - again. Started hitting the gym again this past May, so it's been about 8 months into it. And that's my life... what's been going on in your neck of the woods?
Jeremy Falcon
You know you guys could just do this on Facebook, right? :-D
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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You know you guys could just do this on Facebook, right? :-D
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
:rolleyes:
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Pretty much the norm for any developer.
The fat I can relate to. The drugs and prostitutes, hmmm, got enough debt going as it is!
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
what's been going on in your neck of the woods?
Well, I did a 5 month stint in NYC working on Wall St because I couldn't find any contract work. That's definitely the worst experience in my life, working for a big bank (ticker "C", oh, did I just say that???) Ended up with two great contracts from a couple old clients, so now I'm back at home, working happily. Broke up with my narcissistic gf over Christmas, best decision I've made in a long time. Have been playing lots of Texas Hold'em, thoroughly enjoying the game. My son is going to college, he got his driver's license, and I'm enjoying being "in the money" again for now, at least. *Whew* Marc
That's funny. It would appear we've been down similar paths then. I'm no longer with Erin. I've played more poker lately than ever. And, I took a job and no longer do contract work. Glad to see things looking up again for ya man. I dunno if I could do Wall St., so props for dealing with what I'm sure was a headache. I guess the cabin business you had going went out the door with the ex? Oh, and yeah I'm on Facebook too. :-\
Jeremy Falcon
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That's funny. It would appear we've been down similar paths then. I'm no longer with Erin. I've played more poker lately than ever. And, I took a job and no longer do contract work. Glad to see things looking up again for ya man. I dunno if I could do Wall St., so props for dealing with what I'm sure was a headache. I guess the cabin business you had going went out the door with the ex? Oh, and yeah I'm on Facebook too. :-\
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
guess the cabin business
cabin business?
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Oh, and yeah I'm on Facebook too.
That's cool. :) Marc
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
guess the cabin business
cabin business?
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Oh, and yeah I'm on Facebook too.
That's cool. :) Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
cabin business?
You can't read my mind? ;P Didn't you used to run like a bed and breakfast or something. I thought it was in a cabin, but maybe not.
Jeremy Falcon
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I haven't spent much time on Facebook for my own purposes, but now I have a client requirement to automate posts of their articles onto their profile via Facebook's API. So, I brought up the site & have been browsing the RTFM Help section with either embarrassing ignorance or admirable zen-like beginner's mind, depending on your point of view. So, it appears that you can update your status on the Wall. Groovy I suppose, but doesn't seem to really be the best vehicle for posting an article on a Facebook profile. Events look useful, but not every article is an event. Of course, you can link to an article on your own site, but my current understanding is they want to post full articles on Fb. And then there are videos, photos, etc. What Facebook features do you guys use for presenting article sized text blocks?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
modified on Monday, January 25, 2010 10:28 AM
Be careful posting too many posts to the wall. I've had a couple of companies that I wanted to follow for special offers etc that posted insane amounts of crap on their wall. They're now hidden and all the stuff I actually wanted to see doesn't show up for me. I guess it doesn't matter what medium you use people still get offended by spam. It doesn't sound as though this is what you'll be doing but just in case someone says "We could add a link to our article in the status" you are forewarned.
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I haven't spent much time on Facebook for my own purposes, but now I have a client requirement to automate posts of their articles onto their profile via Facebook's API. So, I brought up the site & have been browsing the RTFM Help section with either embarrassing ignorance or admirable zen-like beginner's mind, depending on your point of view. So, it appears that you can update your status on the Wall. Groovy I suppose, but doesn't seem to really be the best vehicle for posting an article on a Facebook profile. Events look useful, but not every article is an event. Of course, you can link to an article on your own site, but my current understanding is they want to post full articles on Fb. And then there are videos, photos, etc. What Facebook features do you guys use for presenting article sized text blocks?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
modified on Monday, January 25, 2010 10:28 AM
You can use Stream.Publish to publish an article/post/whatever to the user's "wall" with links, media, etc. FB uses some really strange (zen-like) language for it's API: Stream, Wall, etc. Also - they are continuously changing the API. So when I write a contract to do any dev work on FB, I always include a stipulation that we will develop to the API as it looks on the day when the contract is signed. So far I've had the API change during a project twice, in a way that required more work. The 1st one I had to eat the cost of re-coding it, and the 2nd I learned my lesson and had the client pay for it. Eric
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You can use Stream.Publish to publish an article/post/whatever to the user's "wall" with links, media, etc. FB uses some really strange (zen-like) language for it's API: Stream, Wall, etc. Also - they are continuously changing the API. So when I write a contract to do any dev work on FB, I always include a stipulation that we will develop to the API as it looks on the day when the contract is signed. So far I've had the API change during a project twice, in a way that required more work. The 1st one I had to eat the cost of re-coding it, and the 2nd I learned my lesson and had the client pay for it. Eric
Thanks for the heads up, man - appreciate it. I've still got to get an api key, and it looks like they have two or three flavors of api. Connect seems to be what they're pushing. Any recommendations on which path to follow? The needs are pretty lightweight, basically just posting articles / links / photos / etc. to the client's account.
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Marc Clifton wrote:
cabin business?
You can't read my mind? ;P Didn't you used to run like a bed and breakfast or something. I thought it was in a cabin, but maybe not.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
Didn't you used to run like a bed and breakfast or something. I thought it was in a cabin, but maybe not.
Ah, I used to do some cooking for a B&B. Didn't have anything to do with the gf. Marc
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amen, FarmVille
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Somebody would have to pay me before I use FaceBook. Marc
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I haven't spent much time on Facebook for my own purposes, but now I have a client requirement to automate posts of their articles onto their profile via Facebook's API. So, I brought up the site & have been browsing the RTFM Help section with either embarrassing ignorance or admirable zen-like beginner's mind, depending on your point of view. So, it appears that you can update your status on the Wall. Groovy I suppose, but doesn't seem to really be the best vehicle for posting an article on a Facebook profile. Events look useful, but not every article is an event. Of course, you can link to an article on your own site, but my current understanding is they want to post full articles on Fb. And then there are videos, photos, etc. What Facebook features do you guys use for presenting article sized text blocks?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
modified on Monday, January 25, 2010 10:28 AM
Whenever I see Facebook open, I use the little "x" to the right of its tab.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Someone is paying me. :)
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
As I tell others, I may be a whore, but at least I'm not cheap.
Software Zen:
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I haven't spent much time on Facebook for my own purposes, but now I have a client requirement to automate posts of their articles onto their profile via Facebook's API. So, I brought up the site & have been browsing the RTFM Help section with either embarrassing ignorance or admirable zen-like beginner's mind, depending on your point of view. So, it appears that you can update your status on the Wall. Groovy I suppose, but doesn't seem to really be the best vehicle for posting an article on a Facebook profile. Events look useful, but not every article is an event. Of course, you can link to an article on your own site, but my current understanding is they want to post full articles on Fb. And then there are videos, photos, etc. What Facebook features do you guys use for presenting article sized text blocks?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
modified on Monday, January 25, 2010 10:28 AM
I would use Notes for something like that. Now sure if it's accessible through the API but I would think so since my blog posts go to notes.
Denise "Hypermommy" Duggan