After a short hiatus, The Cotton Club Podcast is back! Tonight I had special guest co-hosts Keith Crawford and Robert Blake on the show to discuss a wide variety of topics including the new Facebook enhancements rolled out at the F8 Conference and we each weighed in on what our thoughts were as to how […]
2009 Review: Huge Year for Facebook (Poll)
Going into 2009 I think we all knew that social media was going to transform the web as we knew it but I don’t think that any of us expected it to explode into the mainstream as fast as it did. The 3 big social networks, Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace all entered 2009 with some […]
Facebook Connect is a Huge Success
I was reading today in the The Business Insider Insider that Facebook Connect was being hailed as a huge success. I started putting Facebook Connect onto client applications and websites pretty soon after it was released to the development community. I am not typically an early adopter of any technology until I have had a […]
Twitter API Wiki / Sign in with Twitter
Facebook Connect has definitely been a blessing for handling user authentication on various forms of web2.0 applications and websites. I have used Facebook Connect on several of my personal projects as well as things we develop for our clients. With the popularity of Twitter, I figured it would only be a short period of time […]
Disqus + Facebook Connect
I am a little late to the punch on this one, I just recently started investigating commenting platforms so I apologize for failing to break this news story back in December when it was announced. Disqus, a popular commenting platform that competes head to head with IntenseDebate now features Facebook Connect as another option on […]
Beau Lebens Facebook Connect
I have going back and forth w/ Beau Lebens today after reading his How To blog post on Dented Reality discussing his variation of the Facebook Connect application and after testing it today, it’s a very clean plug-in and it seems to work very smoothly. In his blog post he also outlines all of the […]
Facebook Connect Test
Some of you that follow my blog will remember that I have been testing Facebook Connect on my personal blog using some code written by Javier Reyes of Six Jumps that he was kind enough to share with me. I have to admit that I have struggled to get my mind around this platform but […]
Facebook Developer News
This past week Wei Zhu posted a blog entry about the recent launch of Facebook Connect on various websites across the web. As some of you may already be aware, The Cotton Club, was one of those websites that started using Facebook’s Connect Platform. As a test, I posted on my status that I was […]
Facebook Connect Issue in IE
If any of you have installed the Facebook Connect plugin by Javier and had issues w/ the connect graphic not displaying in your sidebar not showing correctly in IE, here’s the fix for it. Just add the following line of code to your header.php file: <span style="color: #606060"> 1:</span> <html xmlns=<span style="color: #006080">"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"</span> xmlns:fb=<span style="color: […]
Facebook Connect Push
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch posted an article about Facebooks recent push of their Connect platform announcing that today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad overview of Connect as well as competing services […]