Category Archives: fbml essentials

Twitter’s @anywhere and Why it May Be Too Techie for Their Audience

Posted on April 13, 2010 by jessestay

In just one day, we’ll all be sitting in front of Ev Williams and Biz Stone as they announce Twitter’s new Facebook Connect competitor, @anywhere.  This is Twitter’s big statement in the developer ecosystem, stating that they are shifting from … Continue reading →

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Announcing the Winners of the Static FBML Contest

Posted on December 19, 2009 by jessestay

Over on Tamar Weinberg’s blog, Techipedia, I wrote an article about how to customize your FBML Page utilizing the Static FBML app on Facebook, along with a few other techniques.  As part of the post we announced a contest.  The … Continue reading →

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How to Customize Your Facebook Page

Posted on December 1, 2009 by jessestay

I get asked a lot how to customize your Facebook Page (that’s with a capital “P”, not to be confused with your personal profile).  I wrote an article over on Tamar Weinberg’s (author of “The New Community Rules”) blog showing … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, fbml, fbml essentials, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, static fbml, Technology | 6 Comments

Want to Learn How to Write Facebook Apps? Now’s Your Chance

Posted on November 18, 2009 by jessestay

On Thursday morning I’m doing a free webcast for Safari Books Online (moderated by OReilly’s Laurel Ackerman) in which I’m going to go into further detail than I have before on how to get started building Facebook apps.  I’ll take … Continue reading →

Posted in apis, Facebook, facebook development, facebook platform, fbml essentials, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, social, social apis, Social Coding, Technology | 3 Comments

Come Get Your Books Signed! I Want to Meet You!

Posted on October 16, 2009 by jessestay

I hate shameless self-promotion, but this is one opportunity I get to do such.  I hope you bear with me.  For those of you at BlogWorld Expo, I’d like to meet you in person if you’ll join me for a … Continue reading →

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Facebook Launches Custom Tags, Helps Developers Share Their Code

Posted on January 13, 2009 by jessestay

Facebook just released documentation about a brand new feature surrounding FBML that I think is game-changing. They call the feature “Custom Tags”, and the concept is simple. You create code on your servers that renders Facebook-compatible code. You register that … Continue reading →

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Presentation Recap

Posted on November 21, 2008 by jessestay

I’ve had a presentation every week for the past 3 weeks. I shared with you my Facebook Development for Beginners Presentation, so you have the first week. Last week, I had the opportunity to speak in front of Ignite, Salt … Continue reading →

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Facebook Development for Beginners

Posted on November 8, 2008 by jessestay

This morning I had the opportunity to present via O’Reilly Webinar on Facebook development. I covered the basics of how to get started in Facebook development, and the resources that would get you going. I mentioned I’d post these slides … Continue reading →

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Let’s Meet in Person!

Posted on November 4, 2008 by jessestay

The end of this year is turning out to be quite an eventful one for me. This Friday I’ll be doing a free O’Reilly Webinar, “Creating Facebook Applications — A Beginner’s Guide”. The webinar starts at 10:00am PST, and I’ll … Continue reading →

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Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book

Posted on October 27, 2008 by jessestay

UPDATE: Be sure to see Alex’s comment below for his view on this. I am a huge fan of Twitter, regardless of what I say or ever complain about. As a developer of Twitter apps, I want to see it … Continue reading →

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