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Embedding Facebook Share Into Your Site

We’ve got this project going on where users can create their own artwork which is saved to the server as an image, and we want them to be able to post it into Facebook. At first I thought it was going to take some effort and have to use the Facebook Connect API. But I was hoping for something easier, kind of how easy it is on Twitter to just tag a status GET string onto the URL. Then I remembered Facebook recently released… something that does exactly this. It’s all very simple and pretty cool really, check it out

Posted: November 18th, 2009 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Javascript, Social Media

Pop Your Facebook Profile Picture

I came across a cool article the other day which had some examples on how to go a little crazy with your Facebook profile picture, so I can’t take full credit for this. In fact I might not be able to take any credit at all, I just got done reading the article when my good friend (and awesome photographer) Doug… was walking by, he had his full set of equipment with him that day and the next thing I knew I was hanging from the drywall down the hall with a flash on either side of me, I’m just

Posted: October 22nd, 2009 ˑ 3 Comments
Filled under: Creative, Social Media, Web Design

Twitter v. Facebook – A Social Media Deathmatch

A long time ago I wrote a post that I’ve been meaning to counter for some time now but I just hadn’t known how to tackle it. But the other day I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who doesn’t use Twitter, and like just about everyone that doesn’t tweet he also thinks it’s kinda shit. He was saying stuff like “isn’t Twitter just the status message of Facebook?” (my second ever tweet!…) and I was like “holy crap, I’m having a conversation with myself 8 months ago”, I was talking to the me that wrote

Posted: September 14th, 2009 ˑ 3 Comments
Filled under: Social Media, Twitter