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 […]