Monthly Archives: March 2010

Facebook’s Like Button for the Whole Internet – Here’s How it Works

Posted on March 25, 2010 by jessestay

Techcrunch today talked about a new “Like Button for the Whole Internet” which Facebook looks to be launching some time soon, and has been tested amongst several developers as they’ve been told.  What they didn’t mention is that you can … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, fb:like, fbml, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, like, like button, Technology, xfbml | 17 Comments

Recurly Recurls Pricing – New Entrepreneurs Not Happy

Posted on March 25, 2010 by jessestay

Up until now I’ve been preparing a raving review about how much I love the recurring payment service, Recurly.  Previously, at simply a fraction of the price of each payment on the service, it was very simple for any entrepreneur … Continue reading →

Posted in api, Business, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, recurly, recurly pricing, social, subscription, Technology, tiered, transactions | 7 Comments

Changing the World Quite Literally Through Social Media

Posted on March 25, 2010 by jessestay

The rumor is out – I thought I’d make it official.  This week I have started as the new Social Media Architect for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  In summary, I am in charge of the architecture … Continue reading →

Posted in change the world, genealogy, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, humanity, jesus christ, lds, poverty, relief, righteousness, social, Technology, the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints | 32 Comments

Google Re-Enables Adsense on RSS Feeds in Buzz

Posted on March 25, 2010 by jessestay

Some time in the last hour or two it appears that the Google Buzz team has re-enabled AdSense ads in RSS Feeds in Google Buzz.  Recently I wrote about this, criticizing the service for stripping out ads a blog author … Continue reading →

Posted in adsense, author rights, buzz, copyright, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, social, Technology, trademark | Leave a comment

Facebook Kills More Spammy Apps With New Policy Changes

Posted on March 24, 2010 by jessestay

A common technique used by developers to promote their apps very quickly on Facebook has been to tag all of a user’s friends in a photo.  I’ve complained about this before.  If you visit my Facebook Profile and look at … Continue reading →

Posted in application spam, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, photo tagging, spam, spamminess, Technology, wall spam | Leave a comment

Geeky: PHP Client Library That Works With the New Facebook Javascript SDK

Posted on March 22, 2010 by jessestay

Occasionally I write more geeky posts that I don’t expect all my readers to understand.  I’m going to start prefacing those with “Geeky:” so you can know to ignore them in the future.  This is obviously one of those, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, facebook.php, Geeky, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, javascript client library, javascript sdk, open source javascript client library, oss javascript client library, php, Technology | 12 Comments

Facebook Goes After Their Trademark in Popular Domains

Posted on March 18, 2010 by jessestay

It’s common practice, and perhaps necessary for large companies to protect their Trademark.  I’ve written before about Google going after an incorrect spelling of their own Trademark, on http://googleappsengine.com, because it resembles one of their products.  Twitter is known to … Continue reading →

Posted in domain names, Facebook, facebook trademark, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, social, Technology | 44 Comments

Facebook Starting to Test Fan Page Notifications

Posted on March 17, 2010 by jessestay

My wife just got an interesting e-mail notification from Facebook about a Facebook Page she is a fan of.  The notification was a summary of the activity on the Page for the day.  The text of the e-mail goes as … Continue reading →

Posted in e-mail, e-mail notifications, Facebook, fan page, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, notifications, social, Technology | 20 Comments

Twitter Launches Facebook Connect Competitor, @Anywhere

Posted on March 15, 2010 by jessestay

I’ve long talked about the MVC model of the Building Block web.  Data Repositories like Amazon Simple Storage, Facebook Data Store, Google Data, and others comprise the Model of this new platform.  APIs like the Twitter API, the Facebook server-side … Continue reading →

Posted in anywhere, Facebook, facebook connect, Geeky, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, mvc, Technology, Twitter, web 3.0 | 10 Comments