http://blog.apps4facebook.com The Apps4Facebook Blog Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:26:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TechCrunch reports on one of Facebook's initiatives internally titled Project Beacon.  Read through the comments and you'll find some paranoid folks concerned about privacy.  I'm not sure I'd be so concerned.  In this day of social networking and while we value our privacy, we must admit that a part of us ... http://blog.apps4facebook.com/2007/11/04/facebook-project-beacon-and-what-it-means-for-brands-and-users/ There is some value in having structure to social networks.  While the buzz is about the Google-spearheaded OpenSocial initiative (which we are experimenting with in-house as well), Facebook is skyrocketing in terms of traffic and will be passing MySpace shortly! Check out the graphs here from Alexa! http://blog.apps4facebook.com/2007/11/02/facebook-will-pass-myspace-in-traffic-soon/ Facebook stays bleeding edge in almost all respects.  They recently announced the new Facebook Platform for Mobile and it is awesome! I have a Blackberry 8800.  While Facebook already had a website that worked fairly well within the native Web browser application on the Blackberry, they leapfrogged their own efforts ... http://blog.apps4facebook.com/2007/10/25/facebook-platform-for-mobile/ Every once in a while, I come across something I think is just too good to not worth jumping back on this blog and giving two thumbs up.  In this case, it's Gliffy.com which is a lightweight diagramming tool like Visio.  Following the 80/20 rule to the max, you get ... http://blog.apps4facebook.com/2007/10/24/gliffycom-for-wireframeui-spec-writing/ One of the most frustrating things for application developers building apps on the Facebook platform has to do with the surprising problems that show up regularly from the updates that Facebook pushes out on Tuesdays/Wednesday every week. Here's the problem: If Facebook has a bug or if there is something "broken" ... http://blog.apps4facebook.com/2007/10/16/facebook-bugs-are-your-bugs/ What is Apps4Facebook? Apps4Facebook provides Facebook Application Development services.  We've developed several dozens of applications that tap into various domains of the "social graph" and are closely aligned with other companies built on the Facebook platform. It is a common fallacy that companies and individuals believe that building a Facebook application is ... http://blog.apps4facebook.com/2007/10/11/facebook-application-development/ I'm excited to announce the launch of the Apps4Facebook (A4F) Blog!   We're excited about our position in the Facebook community as an exclusive Facebook development group and are looking forward to sharing our position/thoughts on the Facebook platform, the development of great Facebook applications, and all other things related to ... http://blog.apps4facebook.com/2007/10/11/welcome-to-the-apps4facebook-blog/