Category Archives: Howtos

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

Introducing the FB Share Button WordPress Plugin for Facebook Share

Posted on October 26, 2009 by jessestay

Today Facebook launched a nifty little tool enabling website owners and bloggers to allow their users to better share and track their content on Facebook.  The new tool provides a piece of HTML and javascript that renders a little “Share” … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, facebook share, facebook share button, fb, fb share, fb share button, Geeky, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, share, share button, Technology | 130 Comments

FBFoundations Facebook Connect Plugin for WordPress

Posted on October 10, 2009 by jessestay

One of my biggest frustrations in adapting Facebook Connect into WordPress blogging has been the fact that most plugins out there either have too much, or too little incorporated into them.  When you add more than one, you end up … Continue reading →

Posted in connect, Downloads, Facebook, facebook connect, fbfoundations, foundation, Geeky, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Social Coding, Technology, wordpress plugin | 33 Comments

Social Coding: How to Code Twitter’s OAuth Using Net::OAuth and Perl

Posted on May 19, 2009 by jessestay

For the non-developers in my readership, I’m going to get a little geeky on you here. So you can either tune this one out, or pass it onto your IT staff for use in their applications. I promise much more … Continue reading →

Posted in api, Geeky, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, net::oauth, oauth, Perl, Social Coding, Technology, Twitter, twitter oauth | 17 Comments

Automatic Data Compression With DBIx::Class::CompressColumns

Posted on April 19, 2009 by jessestay

UPDATE: You can now get the DBIx::Class::CompressColumns module on CPAN here or via CPAN command-line shell. I’m going to get geeky on you for a minute, but you should find this interesting.  One of the challenges I’ve had with SocialToo … Continue reading →

Posted in bag, blob, compress::zlib, dbix::class, Geeky, graph, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Perl, social graph, Technology | 5 Comments

Check Out My New Twitter Avatar!

Posted on December 25, 2008 by jessestay

If you check out my Twitter Profile, you’ll notice a new, winter-themed, festive Avatar. Yes, it’s animated, and everyone is going to hate me now for revealing how to do this. Check out my post on LouisGray.com to learn how … Continue reading →

Posted in animated gif, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, snow, snowflakes, Twitter | 10 Comments

Social Coding Series: I’m In Your Social Graph, Hacking Your Life – a Howto

Posted on June 4, 2008 by jessestay

As the first entry to my Social Coding series I’m going to cover Google’s Social Graph API. I saw a demo of this at Google I/O in San Francisco and was so impressed that I immediately started hacking on it … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, google code, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, OpenSocial, OSS, Social Coding, social graph, social graph api, Social Media, Social Network Optimization, socialgraph, socialgraph api | 1 Comment

New Series: Social Coding

Posted on May 25, 2008 by jessestay

I’ve been contemplating for awhile now a good way to share what I know about Social Software Development and helping business owners, marketers, and developers learn how to set up their own social apps. Especially for developers, I know there … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Projects, Facebook, facebook coding, facebook development, facebook platform, fbml essentials, Google, Google Apps Engine, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, MySpace, OpenSocial, OSS, Perl, Pligg, Social Coding, Social Media, Social Network Optimization, Twitter | 3 Comments

Utah Startup Series: Bungee Labs

Posted on May 13, 2008 by jessestay

(Sorry it’s been awhile since my last blog – it took me several days to figure out how to get my Flip video imported and exported to and from iMovie. To make a long story short, if you want to … Continue reading →

Posted in bungee, bungee connect, bungee labs, Business, Howtos, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, OSS, Perl, utah startup series, utah startups, w2e, web 2.0 expo, web20expo | 5 Comments

Using Perl/Catalyst and Want to Use Sometrics? Try This.

Posted on May 2, 2008 by jessestay

I’ve been analyzing various Social Applications Analytics tools lately, and have recently stumbled upon Sometrics. Sometrics handles full Analytics for your Facebook, Bebo, and MySpace applications, and will actually utilize the Facebook API to retrieve demographic info about those visiting … Continue reading →

Posted in application analytics, Facebook, facebook analytics, Howtos, OSS, Perl, sometrics | Leave a comment