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Updating WordPress – Summary of Changes
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Today has been a big blog update day – not necessarily for content, but more for general code and structure of my site. I’m still running on the standard “Twenty Eleven” theme for WordPress.org, but I’ve updated a few things. Updates today include: oEmbed flickr photo embed size tweaks – I figured out the optimal…
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Inside Social Apps 2012: The Facebook Platform Roadmap
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The Facebook Platform Roadmap in 2012 Carl Sjogreen, Director, Product Management, Facebook Key Quote: “Facebook wants Open Graph to be a simple process for developers, so that the focus can be put on developing great apps.” Three major areas we’re working on this year – Open Graph, Mobile, Games Open Graph. Plays to two audiences. People…
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Infographic: Getting A Job on Facebook.
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Another infographic for today, this time from MBA Online, and found via Mashable. Facebook great for making connections of all types, not just friend connections. In this infographic, we see just how powerful the social networking site is for making job connections…. Can Facebook Get You a Job? [INFOGRAPHIC].
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Social Networks I’m Using At SXSW
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The South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conference is coming up this week, and I’ll be going down to Austin to attend. Let me know if you’ll be there too! Social media and networking is HUGE at thisthis mega-conference, and in preparation, a bunch of new networks and apps have launched, along with a…
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Google Wave In Action
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At their IO conference this week, Google unveiled their new communications platform Google Wave. It supposedly combines multiple forms of communication – namely email and IM, into a collaborative communications suite. There’s been HUGE buzz on this lately, and Ben Parr of Mashable has posted a good Google Wave guide. I think Google Wave does…
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CNN Making Facebook Status The Next Twitter?
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CNN is pushing hard on their partnership with Facebook this morning. For the Obama inauguration, the two have paired up to allow users to watch the presidential inauguration live stream from CNN, while simultaneously monitoring the Facebook status updates of their friends, and the public. Users can even respond to friends status updates. This is…
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The Facebook Reconnection Project: Calling Everyone
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Facebook is an amazing social networking platform that makes it easy to keep up with lots of people. Since I’ve started using Facebook, the number of people I’ve been able to connect with has been amazing – the list is at 633 right now. I’ve generally tried to keep this list of friends to people…
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Facebook apps on any website! RIP OpenSocial?
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Quick update.. I just learned via Tech Crunch that facebook has opened up a brand new client library, that makes it possible to embed ajax-nifty facebook applications on any website! Plus, there’s no local server-side code needed, so users can simply paste embed code into their site – much like embedding a simple YouTube Video.…