<for the lazy> I found sponsored stories gave 4x better cost performance than standard FB ads at just 0.18GBP per new fan. If you wanna find out how/why read on! </for the lazy> I recently decided to test out facebook’s advertising platform for artweb.com with the goal of increasing the number of fans to our […]
Facebook account disabled
UPDATE if your account has also been disabled, add a comment at the bottom of this page. 29/10/2008 Good old facebook has booted a few Tokyo techies off their website (I think it’s just a glitch though). Maybe a sign from the Japanese Gods that we should be using mixi （＊＿＊） Interesting check as to […]
Facebook Presentation at Tokyo 2.0
Last night I presented my Facebook development experiences to the crowd at Tokyo 2.0. I’m not going to repeat myself as most of the information I presented I’ve already written about in the facebook section, but I’d like to share the presentation data: odp or pdf and mention my references: Fallon Trend Facebook Platform
Facebook Apps on EC2 update
I wrote an overview on using ec2 for hosting facebook apps a few months back. I’ve been poking around a little more with EC2 lately and have a couple of items to report back. Facebook ‘hello world’ Public EC2 image I spotted this public ami for getting started with facebook, shipping with: 1. Facebook Client […]
Facebook Controversy Interview
Mr Kirkland was recently interviewed by a journalist from Infoworld (IDG) regarding experiences with facebook development, here’s an excerpt from the whole article – those quotes sound a little harsh!!! Facebook attracts developers — and controversy Third-party developers must balance social-networking giant’s generous money-making opportunities with communications and administrative pitfalls By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG […]
Using EC2 and Amazon Webservices for Hosting Facebook Applications
Most webdevelopers are used to steady long term growth with occassional spikes, the kind of stuff you can just about get away with on shared hosting or a basic dedicated server. Facebook development can be a completely different kettle of fish, even relatively small apps can expect thousands of regular users hitting their app every […]
Attention Developers: Facebook Delete Applications Without Warning
UPDATE Mr Kirkland interivew by IDG So after an exciting start with our tracker application reaching 8000 users within 3 days after launch facebook have deleted it without warning. Admittedly we recieved a number of ‘Facebook TOS reports’, but they were all from users that had misunderstood what the application did and were essentially false […]
Viral Facebook Applications Part 2
Okay so the first facebook application realeased by MrKirkland hasn’t quite hit the popularity of Pirates or Zombies, but 10,000 users and almost a million page views in 3 weeks is still not bad in our books. For our second application we thought we’d try something more practical, a “who’s been on my profile” application. […]
How to make a viral facebook application
I admit this title is a bit presumptious, but I can’t help but get excited at the progess so far of the application I just realeased onto facebook. The application is The Sentence Game which is basically a ‘plug in’ to an existing website www.sentence-game.com and since I realesed it (3 days ago at the […]
CSS Internal Error: incomplete URL list
So it took me a while to figure this one out, therefore thought it would be worth posting here… Facebook currently allows only one url type declaration per style block. So if you have multiple url declarations in your style, you get this error. The solution is to simply seperate the url declarations into separate […]