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15 Simple Ways to Integrate Facebook into Your Website

Have you ever wondered how to integrate Facebook into your blog? If so, there’s a great post over at web.appstorm.net explaining 15 Simple Ways to Integrate Facebook into Your Website. Continue Reading »

Twitter Tweet Button

Finally Twitter has a released a Tweet Button! Up until now this was a more complicated process, where you had to figure out the code yourself. However, things just got easier and you can easily add a “Tweet This” button to your website or blog.

How to Authenticate Users With Twitter OAuth

Ever wonder how to authenticate users with Twitter OAuth for your Twitter webapp? There’s a great tutorial on how to do just that over at Nettuts.com. The tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps, and there are downloadable source files for your reference.

Adding A Facebook Like Button To Your WordPress Blog

Ever wondered how to add a Facebook “Like” button to your WordPress blog? It’s actually quite simple using the Facebook Like Button For WordPress Plugin.
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How To Create A Custom Tab For Your Facebook Page

Ever wonder how to make a custom tab for your Facebook page? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to do just that using the the Static FBML app. Adding a custom tab is actually quite easy, I’ll have you up and running in no time.
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Watch Facebook’s F8 Conference Online

If you missed it, Facebook had it’s F8 Conference today. The conference is geared at Facebook developers, and they made some big announcements. Make sure you check out the live stream of, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote speech. Continue Reading »

Adding A Google Buzz Share Button To Your WordPress Blog

There’s a great little tutorial over at savedelete.com on how to add a Google Buzz share button to your WordPress Blog.
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It’s getting easier to connect with Facebook

Facebook released a couple of great updates to the Facebook Connect program this week. The first was the announcement of a new translation tool that you can use on your own website. This could be big news for companies that operate international websites in multiple languages.

The second was the release of Facebook Playground, that aims to make it easier to add Connect widgets to your own website. You can now setup Facebook Connect in three easy steps with the Connect Wizard. Once you’re setup, you can add the following widgets to your website by cutting and pasting code snippets:

Facebook Connect Markup and Publishing

» Social Markup: Login Button, Profile Picture, Name, Friends
» Publishing to Facebook: Stream Publish

Facebook Connect Widgets

» Share Button
» Comments Box
» Fan Box
» Live Stream Box

I’ve implemented a number of the widgets over on my Vancouver Canucks blog if you’d like to check them out. I love how Facebook is making it easier and easier to add these new Connect features, keep them coming!

Facebook launches application prototypes

“Facebook’s engineers thrive on innovation and experimentation. We’re encouraged to work on projects that inspire us and build on new ideas, but not all of these features and improvements wind up launching on the site. In some instances, they’re not quite ready for prime time, are a bit esoteric or don’t quite fit. Now, for all the products that wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to see the light of day, we’re introducing Facebook Prototypes.

Facebook Prototypes let us share the experimentation going on inside the walls of Facebook with the rest of the world. You’ll be able to test any of the products and features we launch as Facebook Prototypes and then provide feedback directly to those of us who built them. To access Prototypes, visit the Application Directory and filter by “Prototypes.” From there, you can activate or download any of the Prototypes listed.”

» Read more about Prototypes on the Facebook Blog

» Check out some current prototype apps

Facebook launches new widgets for personal and business websites

When I logged into my Facebook account today, I noticed they had added a new widgets section for personal websites. I’ve already add a sidebar widget on Cardeo, but it looks like they have gathered all the existing widgets, and some new ones, into one area. The new widget page can be found over at: facebook.com/facebook-widgets
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