Mush Pot: Items with tag 'facebook'

by: Travis

2009-03-24T07:19:38Z

PicDoodle: A simple Facebook virus

Probably not the first of its kind, but it sure is annoying. It works like this:

1. When you add the application, it requests permission to see your profile, but then it requests the "photo_upload" extended permission (the dialog requests permission to "Allow Photo Uploads from PicDoodle").
2. Once you grant it that permission, it silently uploads a small photo (for me it was a 16x16 white image, but for some people, it seems to upload a differe...

by: Travis

2009-02-23T06:03:22Z

Thinking about using Facebook Connect on your site? Great! Step one: Abandon your will to live.

I kid! You'll get monthly conjugal visits with your will to live. And by "will to live", I'm including faith in humanity, sense of self worth, satisfaction at a job well done, etc.

First, everyone, please give me a moment alone with Facebook Connect:

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Facebook Connect, I know you're reading this, and we need to talk. It'll only take a second. It's just you and me here, ok? Just us boys. Tell me what's going on. You don't complete your documentation, your code i...

by: Travis

2009-01-29T16:23:58Z

Making The World A Better Place With: Facebook Connect
or: "Technical Details About Mush Pot's Facebook Connect Integration"

For the benefit of other webmasters (used ironically) who might be working on the same, this is an account of Mush Pot's (MP) recent Facebook Connect (FC) integration, and particularly how MP accounts are linked with Facebook accounts. Mostly, it's stuff I wished I could have read in the developer docs.

FC is Facebook's single-sign-in system. (They describe it as somethin...