Evian chose to produce a user based long video clip. Users can add their content taking few photos of themselves mixed with a photo of a baby dancing according to the same music. The final result is a long video clip that includes thousands of people. The gimmick itself drives thousands of people to take [...]
In march 2011 I will start to deliver a professional course for developing social web applications in PHP. I deliver this course through the external studies unit of HIT. The programming language selected for the server side is PHP. Most of the course focuses on PHP. The rest of the hours are allocated for complementary technologies [...]
In november 2010 I have started to deliver a professional course for developing social web applications. I deliver the course through the external studies unit of HIT. The programming language selected for the server side is PHP. Most of the course focuses on PHP. The rest of the hours are allocated for complementary technologies and [...]
I have recently started to teach the PHP Social Web Applications course in HIT. I am currently updating my training material about facebook applications development in PHP. I have just completed to develop Abelski Geeks, a simple basic facebook application that will assist other developers in doing their first steps. The following video clip explains [...]
The Facebook platform has significantly changed during the last year. The three most important changes were the emergence of the Facebook Graph API, the Facebook JavaScript SDK and the Facebook Social Plugins. For each one of these three topics I chose to develop a professional course. These courses are available at www.xperato.com. The community version [...]
I am currently working on a detailed course that covers the Facebook Graph API. The commercial professional version will be available at www.xperato.com. The free community version (for personal usage) will be availble at www.abelski.com. Many of the Facebook Graph queries can be completed using an authentication token. In order to get an authentication we first need [...]
We can easily get information about the other objects each object on the facebook graph is connected with. Trying to request a URL address with the following pattern filling in the unique ID (of the object we are interested at) will return a JSON file with detailed information about all objects that object (the one [...]
The data collected from each check-in users perform when using the Facebook Places service is collected and is now accessible through the Facebook Graph API. Each single check-in is represented using a single object with its own ID number. The Facebook Graph API allows us to get social data represented using objects connected with each [...]
The facemoods application allows us to embed cute emoticons into the textual status messages we post in our facebook account. We can place the small emoticons into our status, chat, messages and comments. The facemoods browser plugin is automatically installed into the web browser once installing the facemoods software application on our computer. Unlike the [...]
Facebook has announced about a new service that allows its users to update their friends about their geographic location, similarly to GoWalla and Foursquare. Although this new service is a true alternative to GoWalla and Foursquare services, the laters chose to team up with Facebook and have already announced they will connect their services with Facebook [...]
