Technoticles» facebook http://technoticles.com (Techno)logy + Ar(ticles) = Technoticles Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:26:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Google’s new +1 http://technoticles.com/2011/03/31/googles-new-1/ http://technoticles.com/2011/03/31/googles-new-1/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:40:07 +0000 technoticles http://technoticles.com/?p=532 The coolest thing i always liked about the ‘Like’ button was that it was a master stroke by Facebook in terms of ‘Light Communication’. I know a lot of people who would never comment on anything on facebook but they use the ‘Like’ button pretty often.
Today Google has come out with its new +1 product, which is pretty much like the Facebook Like button. Data from this product will provide Google with a tremendous amount of data to analyse the quality of sites as well as keep a track on the tastes of its users. Though the company says that the data will not be used to influence its search results, but this could be a major step towards building a great semantic search engine where the user’s taste will come to play a major role in the search results returned.
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]]> http://technoticles.com/2011/03/31/googles-new-1/feed/ 3 Creating a FBML facebook app in php http://technoticles.com/2011/02/08/creating-a-fbml-facebook-app-in-php/ http://technoticles.com/2011/02/08/creating-a-fbml-facebook-app-in-php/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:22:23 +0000 technoticles http://technoticles.com/?p=507 I am in the process of writing my first facebook app using FBML and below i am documenting anything that is worth remembering. I’ll keep editing this post as and when i hit more roadblocks.

Finding your apps
First of all I always find it difficult to find where my apps are on Facebook. So i thought i’ll keep the url bookmarked:  http://www.facebook.com/developers/apps.php

Using WAMP
I am a lazy person and like out of the box solutions. So for a windows machine WAMP gave me apache, php and mysql bundled.

  • Install wamp
  • Open port 8080 for external access, make sure the machine can be accessed from outside your domain
  • To create fbml app you might have to work directly on the server, to see results at runtime
  • create you app folder in the www folder
  • Start all services in wamp

    Enabling Curl on windows

    I was working on a IIS server and it did not have curl enabled.
    To enable curl:

    • edit php.ini in \bin\php\(your version of php)\ and
    • edit php.ini in \bin\Apache\(your version of apache)\bin\ folders.
    • search for curl and uncomment this line -  extension=php_curl.dll
    Create the basic app
    • Download the facebook php sdk
    • remove the version number from name the facebook sdk folder, such its name becomes facebook-php-sdk
    • Copy the example.php file from facebook-php-sdk/examples folder to the root folder and rename it to index.php
    • So now if the name of you app folder is XYZ, the you should be able to access your app from the browser using the url – :8080//index.php
    Integrating the app into Facebook (so that you can add it as a tab)

    Canvas Page http://apps.facebook.com/

    /    		 The base URL of your app on Facebook
    Canvas URL Facebook pulls the content for your app’s canvas pages from this base URL
    Secure Canvas URL Facebook uses this secure version of the Canvas URL when your app is accessed by a user over a secure connection (https).
    Canvas Type

    		Choose whether your Canvas URL renders HTML in an iframe or returns FBML
    IFrame Size

    The Page Tabs settings:

    Page Tabs
    Tab Name The title of your tab on a Page
    Tab URL http://apps.facebook.com/app_name/

    		 Facebook pulls content for your tab from this URL, which must be relative to your Canvas Page
    Edit URL URL at which Page administrators can edit app settings

    Save these settings and you are good to go on your first Facebook app.

    Adding the App tab to a facebook page

    • Create a facebook page
    • Till the app is published the general public cannot add the app tab to their page.But as an admin you have this facility
    • Navigate to your apps profile page and select the “Add to my page” option in the left menu.
    • Select the Page you just created
    • And you would be able to see the Tab1 (the title you put in the tab settings page) as one of the tabs in your page
    References to create FB apps
    ]]>     http://technoticles.com/2011/02/08/creating-a-fbml-facebook-app-in-php/feed/ 0     Facebook, Linked In, Twitter authetication integration for Rails http://technoticles.com/2010/06/03/facebook-linked-in-twitter-authetication-integration-for-rails/ http://technoticles.com/2010/06/03/facebook-linked-in-twitter-authetication-integration-for-rails/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:45:58 +0000 technoticles http://technoticles.com/?p=446 It become a default assumption in all new web applications (that I have worked on or read about) to have an integration with either facebook, twitter, linked in, or all the three.

    Working with these on rails is no longer rocket science as the various plug-in and gems do most of the work for us. I thought it would be appropriate to create a place for my reference as well as that of others to collect some good tutorials that allow us to do these integrations.  To start off, I am adding a few good ones that I have referred to or those that have a lucid explanation and are a good read.

    Facebook

    Twitter

    Linked In

    Hope this helps and do comment with more such tutorials that you find on these social networking integrations. I’ll keep adding to this list as and when I find good new tutorials.

    ]]>     http://technoticles.com/2010/06/03/facebook-linked-in-twitter-authetication-integration-for-rails/feed/ 0     Time Utilization or Wastage @ Social Networking Sites http://technoticles.com/2010/04/14/time-utilization-or-wastage-social-networking-sites/ http://technoticles.com/2010/04/14/time-utilization-or-wastage-social-networking-sites/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:03:48 +0000 harshit http://technoticles.com/?p=429 Networking, I have been listening to this word all the time. It may be of the features to achieve success.  Have contacts, find new friends, find reason to talk to people etc etc … so that one can have a good network and it can help me in future.

    Well this was or may be the idea the social networking sites came into existence. I started with Orkut, then MySpace and now Facebook. Firstly I was amazed with the concept and features provided by these sites but now it has changed.

    Wow !! was my reaction when I first logged into Orkut. Within few weeks I found it pretty cool that I have 500+ friends and I can keep contact with them forever. I can see what a friend is upto or can join various fans group, create my own group, plays games and the list can go on…. Daily in evening like a habit I will check my wall or any updates or watch some funny videos and spend time by updating my status and waiting for my friends reply or commenting on other walls.

    OOOF !! I never realized that this habit has become an addiction and everyday when I get a free time I will login to these sites or keep on refreshing my page so that I can be first one to see other updates.

    The networking site represents me as a “proxy” or my “clone” (let me use some technical words, feels good) on the internet. These days it has become a status symbol. I was completely surprised when my friend said “Kul, you have 500+ friends. You me be a popular guy “. Not only this , various companies are checking the profiles of candidate at these sites and trying to judge them before taking interview which I feel is questionable. Also I have been reading about the research done in this field to understand the behavior of users and various social networking models. That’s too much of work I believe.

    But lately I realized that the amount of time I am spent on this had increased and my actual productivity towards other things has decreased. These sites don’t bring out anything good or make one an expert or be useful in any way. Also some of the best minds are working in developing these sites and keeping it active whereas that talent could be used to build something more meaningful.

    I am not  against the social networking site but I guess these should be used for something more other than chat ,gossip, ’like this’ and upload photos.

    Note: These are just my views and doesn’t intend to harm or hamper the images of social networking sites

    ]]>     http://technoticles.com/2010/04/14/time-utilization-or-wastage-social-networking-sites/feed/ 3     Which do you think are the most innovative companies? http://technoticles.com/2010/02/20/the-most-innovative-companies-2010/ http://technoticles.com/2010/02/20/the-most-innovative-companies-2010/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:10:18 +0000 admin http://technoticles.com/?p=205 Fast Company magazine recently published the list of Most Innovative Companies 2010.

    Facebook jumped from its no.15 ranking last year to top the chart this time, while amazon jumped from no.9 to no.2.

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    Interestingly there is a link specific to most innovative Indian companies and the leader of this lot is the Indian Premier League.

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    In the Design section IDEO, my personal favorite, comes second to the BMW Group Designworks.

    FiLife tops the charts in the finance section, First Solar leads the energy charts while Alstom leads the transportation rankings.

    These are the Fast Company rankings but we would love to know which is the most innovative companies according to you?

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