Social media and social networking are an integral part of developing and maintaining an online recognition. Online recognition works towards immense prosperity. Robert Scoble, Jeff Atwood, Guy Kawasaki, all of them have been early adopters of technology and have continuously shared their experiences helping people to adopt these technologies at …
If Abraham Maslow were alive, he’d tell us, “Told you so.” Social media’s rise to prominence in the Internet Age just confirms what the famous psychologist theorized in his Hierarchy of Needs many decades ago. Human beings have an overwhelming need to belong. Communities are popping up everywhere, and rapidly growing in numbers. People are [...]
With the advent of Web 2.0, social media has become an integral part of daily online life. It has become so powerful with its viral nature that succeeding in this arena may become a make or break deal for your website. If you plan to harness it, you might as well do it properly. Here [...]
The keyword here is “social”. To be able to take advantage of social bookmarking sites, you have to become a part of the community, learn their culture, and use your knowledge to play the game (following the rules, of course). In social media, there are regular users and power users. When regular users submit a [...]
Tim O’Reilly said that in the age of Web 2.0, data is the next “Intel Inside”. With the ever increasing popularity of social networks, the volume of personalized user data is a virtual goldmine for Internet businesses. Facebook has been getting much press lately due to its tremendous growth, as well as emphasis on security [...]
Every blogger dreams about creating viral content, infecting people with your ideas and being the talk of the town. But how exactly does one go about it? Unfortunately, there really aren’t hard and fast rules. Even experienced bloggers will tell you that luck has a lot to do with it. It’s a matter of great [...]
If you are a Facebook application developer, you are certainly familiar with the dialog tool they provide for you. You can display HTML contents, a HTML block and set callback functions for default buttons. It is really very easy and enjoying to use the dialog component. But what if you want to use it in [...]
This tutorial covers the basics of using the Facebook PHP Client Library and how to get your application started, including, installing the Facebook Developer Application, downloading the Facebook PHP Client Library, create your application, a hello Facebook! example, FBML – Facebook Markup Language and using the Facebook API.
