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Re: How to Install the Facebook Iframe App in Less Than 30 Seconds

Erik Giberti — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:59:07 -0000

Another alternative is http://www.facebook.com/rev..., it supports some legacy FBML such as regionalization, provides facilities for placing the like button where you want it and integrates with Google Analytics as well.

Re: Facebook Iframe app…made easy

Erik Giberti — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:57:00 -0000

If your looking for an alternative that supports some of the legacy FBML and Google Analytics as well, consider this alternative http://www.facebook.com/rev...

Re: Facebook Static FBML 101

Erik Giberti — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:47:43 -0000

Facebook will no longer allow the installation of the static FBML application effective 3/11/11. Facebook is also recommending developers transition their services away from FBML. Creating applications is generally more than most people need so I've built this application to replace the Static FBML application http://www.facebook.com/rev...

Re: How To Customize Facebook Fan Page With Facebook Static FBML Application

Erik Giberti — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:46:06 -0000

Facebook will no longer allow the installation of the static FBML application effective 3/11/11. Facebook is also recommending developers transition their services away from FBML. Creating applications is generally more than most people need. I've built this application allows users to replace their Static FBML application with little or no modifications http://www.facebook.com/rev...

Re: How to Customize Your Facebook Page Using Static FBML

Erik Giberti — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:17:58 -0000

Since FBML isn't an option after 3/11 - start transitioning apps ASAP to this or other alternatives http://www.facebook.com/app...

Re: Four Great Resources For Creating Custom Facebook Tabs With iFrames

Erik Giberti — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:52:35 -0000

John, I would add the My Tab application to your list of "coding gives me a migraine" http://www.facebook.com/app...

Re: What Marketers Need to Know About Facebook’s Switch to iFrames

Erik Giberti — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:41:47 -0000

And today Facebook enabled page administrators to change tab names! http://af-design.com/blog/2...

Re: Facebook Programming: FBML - Building Request and Invitations Step By Step Tutorial - PHPEveryDay

Erik Giberti — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:55:44 -0000

Facebook is phasing out FBML. Starting 3/11/2011 you won't be able to create new applications that use this code. Using the new FB.ui({method:'apprequest',...}); in the JavaScript SDK is an easier way to do this. It also supports off-Facebook pages http://af-design.com/blog/2...

Re: FBML Code Example Custom Fan Pages – Show Content to Fans – Hide from Non-Fans – Facebook Reveal Code

Erik Giberti — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:59:49 -0000

Facebook is phasing out FBML, page administrators will need to use iframes to display reveal tabs in the future. This demo tab shows how it can be done http://www.facebook.com/app...

Re: How to Create Fan-only Facebook Content with the Reveal Tab

Erik Giberti — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:52:37 -0000

Now that Facebook is phasing out FBML, you can use this tutorial on how to make a reveal tab using an iframe: http://www.facebook.com/app...

Re: Why collecting email addresses on your Facebook Page won’t work

Erik Giberti — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:08:23 -0000

Liking a Facebook page does is not necessarily equivalent to an email address. The Facebook newsfeed is becoming increasingly noisy and has very rigid formatting. The the long term value of a like is definitely less than that of an email. Many users are only ever seeing a small subset of the overall activity within their Facebook network partially due to design of the algorithm that elevates content and partially due to the volume.

I've helped a number of clients set up email conversion "apps" that allow them to streamline the process as much as possible for their users. Since Facebook allowed applications to collect email addresses (with the users permission) the level of friction has been reduced further allowing for a two click signup process (no data entry required).

Re: Continuous Code Validation using JSLint

Erik Giberti — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:36:53 -0000

Thanks for this excellent post. I was able to get this up and running and part of my validation process in a deploy script very quickly. One note: consider re-writing this function slightly to make the output more meaningful for single run validations:

function validate(filename, callback) {
fs.readFile(filename, 'utf8', function(err, file) {
sys.print('Checking ' + filename.replace(__dirname + '/', '') + '... ');
callback(jslint.check(file.replace(/^\#\!.*/, '')));
});
}

Also, be aware that jslint doesn't like validating itself :P it catches two errors in the current edition, dated 2010-12-23.

Re: You have been rate limited. Enhance your calm.

Erik Giberti — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 23:30:01 -0000

That's Twitters way of slowing down the number of searches executed through the API. The new stream API may be of interest, this is an example of how to use it in PHP http://af-design.com/blog/2...

Re: Did+Facebook+Kill+Facebook%26nbsp%3BQuestions%3F

Erik Giberti — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:43:39 -0000

Facebook questions is riddled with bugs, lacks qualified experts and is more akin to Yahoo Answers than it is to Quora despite having some overlap in it's feature set.

Re: 3 Apps That Will Make You Love Un-Following People on Twitter - SocialTimes

Erik Giberti — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:30:36 -0000

I like http://friendorfollow.com too

Re: BP Buys Top Google Result for “Oil Spill”

Erik Giberti — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:24:55 -0000

I wish BP would spend a little more money on fixing the problem, then it can fix it's image. We're at an estimated 68.9 million gallons!

Re: Appsfire dumps iPhone App store after 2 month wait for update

Erik Giberti — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:15:45 -0000

While I agree that Apple's communication stinks here, this shouldn't come as a surprise. This isn't the first and won't likely be the last developer left wanting. Apple controls the platform, like it or not. It has been clear from day 1 that Apple will do what's best for Apple. Anyone who develops on a platform has to play by the owner of the platform's rules. It's true of Facebook as well.

Re: FluidDB Aims To Become The Wikipedia Of Databases

Erik Giberti — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:08:15 -0000

I think it's a great idea. I've often wished there was a product like this to build against, but the problem for me with the other open databases, regardless of access method or structure, was being able to trust the data that comes out. Wikipedia works because you can use it to get a gist and as a jumping off point. If you want to base a calculation of the GDP of China in your code, can you trust the data that comes out of FluidDB?

Re: http://danpeguine.com/post/607798139

Erik Giberti — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:30:02 -0000

Digg/Reddit did teach us the lesson and I would be surprised if Google wasn't using their data as a signal in their rankings. However, they're just not sufficiently mainstream on their own - ie my Mom doesn't use them - to make them a useful alternative to a more traditional search engine. Facebook is the game changer in that they have the depth of audience to make these signals more useful.

I'm curious as the entire web gets "liked" if will become so diluted that it loses it's effectiveness.

Re: Adobe As The Railroad Tycoon: Apple Needs To Change Its Gauge

Erik Giberti — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:00:30 -0000

While not producing software for the Mac is an option, I wasn't frustrated with Apple when I moved to OS X and photoshop didn't run right, I was frustrated with Adobe for not getting the software up and running.

Re: Signals : Exam Room Flags

Erik Giberti — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:04:38 -0000

A correction, 4 flags can actually convey 16 messages from all "off" to all "on".

Visualization of information is a fascinating study. So much information can be packed into seemingly simple devices (like colored flags). I suspect the use of a minimum number of flags increase comprehension additionally because of the differentiation in the colors and the negative space. If they were to use 16 different flags, the flags would be harder to differentiate between. There is a maximum limit, I'm guessing about five or six flags, that would be possible because generally humans have a hard time differentiating quantity after that and it becomes a more cognitive process. Furthermore, 6 flags can convey 64 different states, which is a lot of information - at least for the flags outside a patient room.

While standardization is important, uniformity isn't necessarily the answer. There may be settings where a state is not relevant and re-purposing an existing signal may be confusing thus the need for a completely different set of signals is needed, even within the browser. Conveying information also differs based on the intelligence of the intended recipient.

A three bulb traffic signal can actually convey eight different states leveraging only off and on, but we use each bulb as a lone signal. To be more efficient, we could use two bulbs to convey the same three states, but that requires a higher level of comprehension from the viewer. Doctors and nurses by nature of their education have demonstrated a minimum level of intelligence, it can be expected that they'll be able to decode the extra information embedded in the encoded in the flag signals.

However, computers are used by a wide variety of people who process information at different levels. Therefore, the level of cognition within a user interface must be created in such a way that it serves the needs of the lowest common denominator. I'm sure this is how we ended up with the browser "chrome" that leverages UI signals about the state of the current window (different for each OS) then the software independent devices like, home, back, rss subscribe and so on and lastly the signals we get from a web page itself - which may or may not include even more signals!

Re: Facebook Problems Today: Photo Uploads Broken and Other Issues

Erik Giberti — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:15:22 -0000

The API is also throwing many "Incorrect Signature" errors and the developer wiki, forums and bug tracking are all down. It started doing this at 11:46am eastern.

Re: WordPress Down: WordPress.com Experiences Outage

Erik Giberti — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:53:10 -0000

And in a related incident, worker productivity went up because FailBlog is hosted there too http://failblog.org/

Re: CrunchPad Litigation Imminent

Erik Giberti — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:48:34 -0000

And in case you missed the link in my name: http://www.docstoc.com/coll...

Re: CrunchPad Litigation Imminent

Erik Giberti — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:46:05 -0000

Just in case Google decides to purge their index, I put the Google archive of their entire blog (all three posts) on DocStoc.