What Facebook features do you use?
-
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.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
amen, FarmVille
-
Somebody would have to pay me before I use FaceBook. Marc
-
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!
-
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:
delete this; -
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
-
Facebook... That's a website, right? I kid, I kid. Managed to avoid it so far, though.
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in? Author of Guardians of Xen (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novel)