my first Facebook-app: Gaping Void

back from holiday (sort of), I’ve been toying with the Facebook-API and built my first tiny little application today. it simply fetches Hugh MacLeod’s latest cartoon from gapingvoid.com and renders it on your profile.

if you want to install Gaping Void to your profile, the application-link is apps.facebook.com/gapingvoid – enojy!

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Blog Maverick –
The World Accoring To Mark Cuban –
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Rise of the wikicrats –
Social Media White Paper â��Tracking the Influenceâ�� (Factiva of Dow Jones) –
gründerszene –
Firefox DNS Cache abschalten – Firefox – Visualhype – Webentwickler und SEO Blog mit aktuellen Artikeln zu Suchmaschinen, Webprogrammierung und Internetmarketing [...]

BarCamp Vienna #3 – September 29th&30th, 2007

while the original BarCamp has been celebrating its second anniversary this weekend at Socialtext’s offices in Palo Alto (here is a video-interview with some of the founders), Vienna will happily hold its third installment of the unconference-format as early as september 29th/30th. the list of attendance already looks very promising…

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Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities –
DVD Reviewer – Multi-Region Hacks – Harman/Kardon DVD 27 –
Facebook News Feed RSS– Nemikâ��s Blog –
WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist – Download Squad –
blog optimization @ Scatterings –
Wordpress tips and tricks – custom login page » Binary Moon » The home of [...]

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5 Facebook Application Gotchas | 20bits
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Facebook Developers | Documentation
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Facebook Developers | Resources
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Facebook Application Development – First Steps

Wordpress 2.2.2 – security fixes

don’t forget to upgrade your Wordpress installation to version 2.2.2 (2.0.11 if you’re still on the legacy-branch). there have been some security leaks disclosed last week, so this is mandatory. the update should’nt break anything…if you encounter any problems on this blog (which has just been upgraded), feel free to shout – thx!

Technorati: favorite-exchange

fellow bloggers Infopirat and Datenschmutz’s Ritchie Pettauer (both links german-only) have started a combined link- & Technorati-favorites exchange (the more readers favor your blog, the higher your authority calculated by Technorati). to get a Technorati-favorite from me, just backlink to this post and add my blog to your favorites – voila! as soon as [...]

Facebook: Books-application

seems like there’s currently at least one appealing Facebook-application to install each day (if you are willing to donate that much time, that is). the accurately titled ‘Books’ (found at Guy Kawasaki’s blog) shares your current, previous and future reading-list with your Facebook-friends. the app is tied to Amazon’s catalog and works quite nice, the [...]

PHPTube voted 2nd place in PHP Innovation Awards!

my YouTube API-extension PHPTube has been voted 2nd place in the PHP Innovation Award of PHPClasses.org – very cool , thanks everybody for voting & congratulations to the other winners!