Social Networks

Sic Transit...

It is very sad to see friendster go (friendster, hi5 on decline in 2009) [ ... ]

posted @ Monday, March 08, 2010 5:08 AM | Your thoughts

Facebook Urls

acebook opened vanity urls for the public for free and during the landrush last Saturday over a million urls were taken. What did you get [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, June 19, 2009 3:26 AM | Your thoughts

MySpace Layoffs: June, 2009

It has been nearly a month and a half since I made a post sharing my opinion on MySpace dev. platform status and here come some bad news for Myspace (and for the platform) :/ According to [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, June 19, 2009 3:11 AM | Your thoughts

Follow me on Twitter!

You can follow me on Twitter here [ ... ]

posted @ Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:18 PM | Your thoughts

Advertising opportunities — Brazil

This post is for advertisers out there or people who are looking for advertising opportunities. If you are looking to advertise for Brazil audience in entertainment area [ ... ]

posted @ Monday, January 05, 2009 4:40 AM | Your thoughts

Advertising — Philippines

If you are looking for advertising opportunities which exclusively cover Philippines and Filipino users — please get in touch. We're selling ad spots on 2 applications with 100K active users combined [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, December 27, 2008 10:31 PM | Your thoughts

Outage: Myspace, Friendster, Cubics

I don't see anyone blogs about this therefore I have to write about it myself. Friendster is offline for more than 36 hours out [ ... ]

posted @ Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:26 AM | Your thoughts

Does Facebook Platform Matter Anymore?

The short answer is no. Short summary: Facebook platform does not care about their developers community [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, October 18, 2008 4:28 AM | Your thoughts

Solution: Social Networks and Client Libraries

In one of my recent posts - Problem: Social Networks and Client Libraries I tried to define the problem of lack of client libraries written in .NET to support Social Networks open platforms. Here is my solution - write these libraries myself. The first network will be [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, August 01, 2008 3:41 AM | Your thoughts

Thoughts on Facebook New Profile

I think that Facebook New Profile is better than the old one. The most important thing for developers is that it has wide canvas. Here Facebook is catching up with competitors, since Myspace, Hi5, Bebo and Friendster all of them have wide canvas and chrome menu on the top [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, July 26, 2008 4:39 AM | Your thoughts

Problem: Social Networks and Client Libraries

It's not a secret that I have several applications running on Social Network platforms. Launched initially on Facebook last year several web applications were scaled up to support bebo platform in January this year [ ... ]

posted @ Sunday, July 20, 2008 2:18 AM | Your thoughts

Facebook's Standard Security Settings Sufficient ? (Not)

BBC came out with an article today Identity 'at risk' on Facebook which discusses potential stealing of user data by 3rd parties applications of Facebook Development Platform: When you add an application [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, May 02, 2008 4:43 AM | Your thoughts

Thoughts on Bebo Audience

Since one of my applications - Bathroom Stall Vandalism works both on bebo and on facebook as well - it is always useful to compare performance on both platforms. BTW, Bathroom Stall Vandalism is all about people virtually write and vandalize their rest rooms (LOL) [ ... ]

posted @ Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:17 AM | Your thoughts

x2line on Facebook Pages

Facebook introduced Facebook Pages 3 days ago. This feature enables business owners, artists, entrepreneurs, etc. to create a profile for their entity which looks similar to Facebook user profile [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, November 10, 2007 9:47 PM | Your thoughts

Facebook Black Wednesday (10/11/2007)

It was one of those pushes performed by Facebook last night. Facebook push is a weekly update usually performed by Facebook updating their production servers with new code, fixes and features. Apparently Facebook does not perform integration tests, therefore each push can break applications depending on the platform. Because of the fact that each push is performed too frequently without enough testing the platform became unstable [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, October 13, 2007 6:15 AM | Your thoughts

FQL Tricks: How to Count Records

FQL is a SQL-style interface which can be queried by 3rd party applications using SQL-like syntax. Given that output XML is transferred over the wire one should also take care of the bandwidth. For example we want to get COUNT (only) of all current user friends who installed the current application [ ... ]

posted @ Sunday, October 07, 2007 3:42 AM | Your thoughts

Facebook Breaks Desktop Applications User Count

Yesterday Facebook managed to implement their biggest strategic mistake so far, IMHO. From yesterday Facebook does not show and sort applications by "total users" in the application directory. Instead they introduce new metrics [ ... ]

posted @ Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:38 AM | Your thoughts

Facebook Operating System (err.. Platform)

A month ago Facebook Platform was announced. I think most people still don't really get it but what Facebook is trying to do is to create the first Web Operating System, when 3rd parties are able to develop and run their applications (web and desktop) within Facebook servers, share traffic and money [ ... ]

posted @ Friday, June 29, 2007 1:24 AM | Your thoughts

How Facebook API Handles DateTime

Facebook gives away Datetime as Long (number of seconds since 1970/01/01). In GMT. Wanted to mention that this caused a bug in Fosimo, apparently fixed [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, June 23, 2007 4:46 AM | Your thoughts

Facebook Object-Oriented Diagram

Facebook is growing 3% per week currently (6th most trafficked site in the U.S.). I guess it will not be long before Facebook would catch Myspace traffic and leave it behind. A week ago (05/24/2007) Facebook launched Facebook Platform. I've made a bit of reverse engineering through Facebook business entities and created a class diagram [ ... ]

posted @ Saturday, June 02, 2007 5:47 AM | Your thoughts