Facebook Developers Garage SXSW

Listening to bits and pieces of the Facebook Developers Garage SXSW. Sadly I was not able to be there, but I was able to listen in through UStream. I will write comments about it later on.. so come back to this post and I’ll update it as I see it all.

What you Must know about the Facebook Promotional Guidelines

Yesterday I wrote a piece which publicly showed a fraction of the anger I have towards Facebook right now. Not the community of people but at the rules being imposed on us that work with the platform. The post was not at all constructive, but I had to give space for my anger in some way. This post is more of the constructive how to kind. Although I cannot hide my satire in some places…

As you can understand, it wasn’t only the most recent changes that sparked my anger. Ever since the new Promotional Guidelines were released on the 5th of November of last year, there have been a series of bad changes for us who use Facebook for promotions.

As I hate reading stuff before testing, I have run into some hurdles along the way. I write this post so that you might not.

Facebook Idiots can go to Hell

I’ve had it. Enough is enough. Facebook has finally shown they cannot handle their position as number 1 in the social scene online. I am completely and utterly disappointed with Mark his crew. Haven’t they learned anything from their past or anything from the web?

I was thinking that when the latest update of the terms and conditions came along it was a mere high five to the legislators of some idiot government somewhere. The new rules stated three extremely important changes to the Facebook page terms of service:

The Ultimate Facebook Page Resource Page

A blog post with all the resources you need to create good Facebook Pages for yourself or your business.

First off you need to start by creating a HTML document. If you are an e-mail programmer then you’ll become an expert in Facebook landing pages in no time. Basically the thumb rule is to NOT use div’s but use tables. I know some of you out there got some allergic reaction to what I just said, but I promise you that you don’t want some browser versions to come frigg with your classes which can be the case.

Facebook Zero will Push Mobile Facebook beyond 100 million

Facebook Zero is soon to launch on zero.facebook.com. Basically it is a mobile platform that is slimmed to fit even the least empowered 1k/s mobile connection. They have basically stripped Facebook from all the stuff that makes it heavy such as profile pictures, image banks and crazily loading scripts.

Adding More than One FBML box to your Facebook Page

Yesterday I launched a video on YouTube where I described how you can add several FBML boxes to your Facebook Page. I have previously written about how to extend your Facebook Page with applications. Today I decided to write a post about it.

Facebook Pages are acting funny

I am as excited as I am confused. Today Facebook deactivated my Facebook Fan page without notifying me about it. I naturally republished it, but I can tell from the mere layout of the page edit section that stuff is going on. I all of a sudden couldn’t find my page when searching for it (yes, that’s how I navigate on facebook) and when I published a story on my page, my avatar had changed to a question mark.

Facebook Marketplace Tutorial

Facebook Marketplace is a thing that’s been around for a while but it hasn’t really kicked off internationally yet. However, looking at the trend, and it’s more apparent placement in the new Facebook navigation, the statistics below are sure to take off even more.

With a growth rate like that I am sure it will start the sweat in the necks of many second hand market places out there. And it is so much fun too. Look at what I put out for sale today. So, here we go with a short tutorial on how Facebook Marketplace work and how you can start selling your stuff.

3 Reasons to like the New Facebook Design

I know some of you have been able to see the new Facebook Design for a while. For me today was the first day I got a sneak peak of it. I really like what I see. The new logged in features look a lot better from a user perspective and they have collected all the main navigation in a top-right manner. Follows the flow of “normal” navigational structures and I believe this will only allow for Facebook to become accessible to more people.

Facebook SEO aims to Rank On Brand names and Profiles

One of my friends knows about my infatuation with Facebook exploration and thus asked me a question about Facebook privacy that made me think of something.

Since a while back you have to uncheck a button in order to not show up in Google with your profile. This is quite straight forward. One thing which is not that straight forward are what is visible and why exactly that information is visible.