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EA Sports and Playfish have come together to launch Madden Superstars, a flash game for Facebook. Similar to the Madden Ultimate Team card game on the console but with timed elements similar to Farmville and no actual Madden gameplay.  Instead of growing a crop you are practicing to increase your ratings for your next game. [...]

This cropped screen shot was captured on my Facebook homepage. I don’t know what the girl in the picture has to do with winning an Apple iPad but it certainly got my attention. I hate ads like this because the image has nothing to do with the ad itself, its just an easy way to [...]

It looks like the new Facebook Design breaks Live Messages. For some reason the Javascript Listener doesn’t recieve any messages when using the new Facebook design. Since Live Messages are technically still in beta I guess we can’t hold Facebook responsible for breaking our test apps. Hopefully nobody put enough faith into Facebook to release [...]

Scrabulous has been dynamite since it landed on Facebook as the leading game application on the scene. Since then the application has garnered a different tone from Hasbro who own the rights the original Scrabble. Earlier this year it was said that Scrabulous would be forced to take down their application. Months have passed and [...]

While developing an application for Facebook I came across the LiveMessage feature which is currently still in beta. The only problem is that I couldn’t find much information on how people actually used the API version of it. LiveMessage seems like it could be a really useful function to leverage for real time applications, not [...]

Grrr. Well I spent more time on my Facebook App last night and it turns out the Facebook timeout and slow REST calls really make my application useless. If Facebook doesn’t receive a response from your server under 7 secs it’ll spit out an error saying the application has a few kinks. 7 secs is [...]

I thought I had a good idea for a Facebook application until I realized that the Facebook API doesn’t allow you to view “friends of friends”. I guess they are trying to uphold the privacy of their users but it’s pretty public information when I’m logged into their site. The funny thing is that I [...]

Required knowledge: CakePHP, PHP, Facebook API
Trying to integrate CakePHP and the Facebook API has given me a headache for the past couple days. First off I didn’t know where to start besides dropping the Facebook php files into my vendors directory.
Luckily I found a very useful post here. It goes on to explain how to [...]

Last week I posted a desk chair on Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist hoping to sell it for whatever price anyone would pay. I originally thought it could only sell for $15 but I wanted to see how much people would pay for it. I ended up setting the listing for “$30 or best offer”.
Facebook Marketplace [...]