Monthly Archives: April 2010

Facebook and the New SEO

Posted on April 30, 2010 by jessestay

With the advent of Facebook’s new Open Graph Protocol announced at their developers conference last week, there has been no shortage of criticism as to what’s private, what’s open, and if this makes Facebook even more open and more closed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open graph, open graph protocol, SEO, social, Technology | 28 Comments

Google: You Have the Same Thing as Facebook – Why Not Promote It?

Posted on April 23, 2010 by jessestay

Google is sitting on a gold mine opportunity right now and all I hear is complaining from their employees.  Matt Cutts Deactivated his Facebook account and Tweeted about it to tell the story.  Chris Messina called Facebook the dreaded “evil” … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Google, graph api, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, opengraph, OpenSocial, protocol, social, social graph api, Technology | 19 Comments

Facebook Launches OpenGraphProtocol.org: Adds Second Product to the OWFa

Posted on April 22, 2010 by jessestay

Just two years ago at OSCON, Facebook, Google, Myspace, and others all joined forces to create the Open Web Foundation, a sort of GPL-like agreement for platform builders to have a common agreement users could understand.  Facebook announced their first … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, open, open graph protocol, open standards, open web foundation, owfa, social, Technology | 7 Comments

"Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You"

Posted on April 22, 2010 by jessestay

I’ve said numerous times that when you put something on the web, you should always assume that data is public, for the world to see. Up until now, Facebook was the exception – Facebook enabled privacy controls, enabling users to, … Continue reading →

Posted in f8, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, opengraph, small community, social, Technology | 34 Comments

The Butterflies are "All Around Us" – My Interview With Paul Buchheit, CoFounder of FriendFeed

Posted on April 21, 2010 by jessestay

I had the opportunity to spend a brief few minutes with Paul Buchheit, co-creator of FriendFeed.com, which was recently acquired by Facebook end of last year.  In our interview, I asked Paul where “the Butterfly” was that was mentioned by … Continue reading →

Posted in butterfly, Facebook, FriendFeed, friendfeed death, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, new features, open graph api, paul buchheit, Technology | 3 Comments

Facebook Kills the Storage Limit

Posted on April 21, 2010 by jessestay

Today at Facebook’s F8 developer’s conference Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be adapting their policy surrounding the length of time developers can store data taken from the Facebook API on their own servers.  Very soon, the infamous, “store for … Continue reading →

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I’m a Dummy! My Next, and Third Book

Posted on April 21, 2010 by jessestay

It’s been 2 years since the release of my second book, FBML Essentials, and everyone keeps asking me when I’m going to write my next.  I admit I’m a little addicted – it’s why I write on this blog.  I … Continue reading →

Posted in developer, dummies, Facebook, facebook application development, Facebook Application Development for Dummies, facebook connect, Facebook Developer, facebook development, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, social, Technology | 4 Comments

Facebook to Launch SideWiki-like Recommendation System for Websites

Posted on April 19, 2010 by jessestay

On Saturday I broke news of a few specific XFBML tags Facebook will be releasing as part of its OpenGraph API, as revealed by their open source Javascript Client libraries.  I held back one announcement that I think is almost … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, facebook connect, facebook platform, fb:recommendations, fbml, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, recommendations, sidewiki, social, Technology, tips, xfbml | 17 Comments

Aloooha!

Posted on April 19, 2010 by jessestay

It has been probably 20 years since I last visited Hawaii.  On April 29 through May 1 I’ll be joining my Hawaiian friends at Next Level Hawaii in a weekend of Social Media goodness, and the best of strategies surrounding … Continue reading →

Posted in aloha, hawaii, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, johnny lingo, next level, next level hawaii, Technology | 1 Comment