Feb 11, 2011

“You can’t do that on a tab.” In the last year-plus I’ve been developing Facebook apps and tabs, I’ve uttered this phrase more times than I care to recall. I remember when I first started developing for Facebook, there seemed to be such promise in the idea that I could build the bulk of these apps in any language, on our own servers. There seemed to be...

Way back in April 2010, I attended Facebook’s F8 developers conference in San Francisco. According to its page, its mission is to “bring together the developers and entrepreneurs who are building the social Web by moving fast, taking risks, and hacking traditional systems”. Not entirely sure what that’s supposed to mean, but it was a free trip to San...

I didn’t notice this until about halfway through the Super Bowl when Gary Vaynerchuk pointed it out. It seemed despite the millions of dollars big brands spent on Super Bowl ads this year, not one (at least that I saw) specifically directed people to their Facebook pages. Maybe it’s because my “day job” is now mostly consumed by social...