Facebook continued

November 15, 2007

Well the application is out there. It’s an Advent Calendar for facebook and can be found here (you will be asked to login if you are not already). Obvioulsy by it’s nature, it doesn’t do anything until December 1st, so please be patient!
But this app was a test really, and it has raised further [...]

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Facebook application day 2

November 7, 2007

Well in between other tasks today I’ve finally got my Facebook app complete and working on a public facing server that Facebook can see. Well, I think it’s working. I’m recruiting 3 or 4 friends to help test it first, but it’s out there if anyone stumbles upon it.
The main problems have been to do [...]

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Facebook - Anti Social Ads

November 7, 2007

There’s been a lot of talk about Facebook’s new ad platform for “Social Ads”. Well they’ve gone live and killed my ad campaign which was working fine! The Flyers Pro which were the previous PPC adverts on Facebook have been tarred for low CTR, well I had managed to create a set of [...]

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Facebook part 2

November 6, 2007

Well, the development is going OK so far. If Facebook didn’t keep throwing “An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host” errors at me for no apparent reason, it might go even better. I asusme that the sandbox servers are overloaded, as it works for a bit then stops.
Basically I have the [...]

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Facebook Application development

November 6, 2007

I dabbled briefly in making Facebook application a few months ago, but never really pushed it due to other commitments. What with recent new stories going on about how popular some Facebook apps get, and how much they can be sold for (!), I thought I’d give it another try.
My dev platform is .Net 2.0 [...]

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Minicab sir?

November 5, 2007

The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again. Rather than pay £8 a day for London congestion charges, a growing number of Londonders are registering their cars as mini-cabs:
“Among the luxury vehicles on the list of shame are “17 Bentley Continentals, which cost £117,500 new, three £300,000 Maybach 62s and eight two-seater Mercedes-Benz SLs”. Others apparently [...]

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Cassette Tapes

November 5, 2007

In the car this morning taking my 11 year old to school, someone on the radio mentioned having Nirvana’s Nevermind on cassette. A confused look crossed here face - “What’s a cassette dad?”. I explaine dthem as being those small plastic things with two wheels in the middle that we used to us in our [...]

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When is cybersquatting NOT cybersquatting?

November 4, 2007

Let’s get this straight - I’m not going to talk about trademark or typo cybersquatting here. Some people do that, most don’t, and most domainers are at least attempting to clear up any trademark issues.
What I am going to talk about is those people who call anyone with any parked, undeveloped or under-developed domains a [...]

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School Reunions

October 3, 2007

We had a school reunion on the weekend. The first time many of us had actually seen each other for nearly 20 years. And what fun we had! The night is a bit of a blur, but bits keep coming back to me. It was great to see everyone again, despite what [...]

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In the footsteps of giants..

October 3, 2007

Many years ago, I read an article/interview with Jeff Bezos - the guy behind Amazon. They started as do many tech companies in his garage, and had no idea what was going to happen .So that they could keep an eye (ear!) on what was going on, they made the server beep every time [...]

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