It’s disgusting the level of permissions that some Facebook apps are requesting. Today I was trying out a few Timeline creating apps. The first one was a fancy cover image creator. Have a close look at the permissions it’s asking for: Why do they need my networks, list of friends,...

Last year Facebook changed the rules again, and made you need an SSL certificate to host your apps that enabled custom Facebook tabs. I still haven’t got one. Today I was looking at allfacebook.com and found the top ranking FB app was one that enabled static iframe tabs without the need...

For the second time in two months, I’ve had a Pom called James ring me and start on a sales spiel, theoretically from Facebook. The first time was a Friday night at dinner time, when he was coming between me and a pizza with red wine. He wasn’t welcome. He launched into a script...

There are probably lots of ways of doing this, but I wanted to add a particular RSS data feed from my Drupal site, to my Facebook page. The first step was in creating the RSS feed from my drupal site. Using Views it’s quite easy. Especially with handy posts like...