The game-ification of everything
http://g4tv.com/lv3/44277
fbExchange.Net – a new site for Facebook development answers
With Daniel Schaffer (author of the .Net Facebook API Client) I’ve put together a Stack Overflow-type website for Facebook developer help called fbExchange.Net. It’s intended to build as a knowledge base and to be focussed more on tech than the official Facebook developer forum’s discussion format. (So hopefully the forum will be the place for …
The Acropolis, Athens
Better late than never (perhaps), these are the last of the photos from my trip to Athens late in 2008. Facebook has been starving the blog of updates for a long time and I’ve all but lost the capability to think of anything to say that’s longer than 140 characters. For anyone keeping track, this …
Six Degrees: come in, your time is up
From Facebook today: We’re writing to inform you of a Facebook Platform policy violation within your application, Six Degrees. Our terms and policies are in place to ensure that Facebook Platform serves users well, allows applications to thrive, and provides a great experience for all involved. Unfortunately, we have determined that your application does not …
Facebook Taking Signups for Developers Interested in Testing its Credit Payment System
Facebook are accepting “expressions of interest” from developers for the beta test of their payments platform. I wrote a bit more about it on Inside Facebook: Facebook Taking Signups for Developers Interested in Testing its Credit Payment System.
“Rap Chop”
I just can’t stop watching this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA]
Little Sydney
These little videos are great. Showing the life of “Little Sydney” by some really clever techniques. And they just look good. For best results go to the site – they’re much better larger. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3548220&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1Mardi Gras from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. See all the rest
The new Facebook layout: a step forwards, backwards or sideways?
A change of design for a site like Facebook is always a prompt for discussion and controversy. Facebook is so much part of many people’s experience of the web now that it’s like someone deciding that trees should be purple. Coupled with the fact that, in general, the reaction to change amongst the masses is …
Bigger ads or better ads?
There were two interesting pieces of news in the internet ad space this week. Yesterday, Google announced they’re rolling out behavioural targeting for Adsense. What this means is that they’ll look at what types of sites you visit (if those sites are running Adsense) and then ads will be targeted at you based on those …
Microsoft SQL Server text data column and PHP length problems
I’ve had this problem before: PHP truncates results from a SQL Server text field to 4096 characters. (This is running PHP under Apache on Windows.) To save myself having to work out the right Google terms again, this is the solution: change the following in php.ini (note that ini_set doesn’t appear to work: ; Valid …