Facebook launches location-based service-shared “Places”
In a press conference organized by invitation in the head of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new geolocation service Facebook.
Dubbed "Places", it will enable users to share their social networking sites more easily and discover which of their "friends" are in the same region.
This service will focus on mobile devices from which the members can post and update their geolocation.
The social networking giant has played the cautious this time and included from the outset, control over the visibility of this information adjusted default to "friends only".Users can include friends with whom they are, and the information will be published following the same system used for tagging photos. Once a place "tagged", it becomes permanent on Facebook, although it may be deleted by the user who posted first.
If a trade or business, its owner can reclaim his property.
Zuckerberg did not specify how to control or planned administration in this case.
Facebook officials have explained that a comprehensive API for reading and writing research will be offered to developers.
This service can be integrated with third party applications.
The logo of the service, representing a "4" in a square (in English and Four Square), puts the rumors about the future of the Foursquare between acquisition, partnership or single glance.
Source : Facebook's blog
Yahoo announced an agreement with Facebook
Yahoo and Facebook have announced an agreement between their two sites.
In fact, their services are now linked in some ways. A user with an account on both platforms, and can see the notifications relating to its activities on a site, appear on the other.
In addition, users of certain services offered by Yahoo (such as Flickr or Yahoo Answer), can more easily share their data will be housed with their Facebook friends.
They will also be possible to update both their Yahoo profile and their Facebook profile into a single action, since both pages are linked. Yahoo Profiles will be renamed Yahoo Pulse, and their privacy settings (about fashionable!) Will be improved and simplified.
Source: Press Release
WP.com : Your Public Profile
Back in March when we announced Gravatar-powered profiles on WordPress.com, your profile page remained private so that only you could access it. Now that you’ve had a chance to update your information and make sure that only details you want public are there, let’s open things up. It’s been just over 2 months and more than 300,000 people have updated their details so it’s time to do what we’ve been really excited to do since we first announced profiles:
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New Facebook PHP SDK
With the new Facebook, a new PHP SDK has been made available for developers. It will allow you easily make your own page Facebook.
Emran Hasan published a tutorial on his blog to show you how good start with this SDK. He guides us through three stages:
- Creating a new API
- Create a configuration file
- Create a main page
The tutorial is illustrated because it shows step by step all the operations.
cURL : 10 way to use it
cURL is a PHP extension to communicate easily with other web sites. Libcurl extension will allow you to perform operations that you do not always have to think like submitting forms.
Jean-Baptiste Jung suggests in an article 10 ways to use the cURL extension.
The issues addressed are:
- Updating Facebook status
- Getting server's loading speed
- Connection with mySpace
- Post something on your WordPress blog
- Checking url availability
- Post on Twitter
- And many more...
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Use APIs with PHP
Jeez wrote an article containing a summary of the most popular applications on the Internet. These APIs have the advantage of being able to connect themself with your PHP scripts.
Even if all developers are aware of the possibilities of connection, it is always useful to be able to easily find all available links.
Here's a list of the most commons :
- Akismet
- Amazon
- Blogging
- Compete
- Delicius
- Digg
- eBay
- Yahoo
- Youtube
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Google Wave : That’s it !
It's made ! Google Wave was launched for the very lucky 100'000 people who have received a Google's invitation.
For the people who dont have this invitation, Epipheo studio has released a movie.
The movie on Youtube
Epipheo Studios
WordPress.com – Publicize : Yahoo! Updates
A new feature has been added to all the wordpress.com's blogs. You can now send your blog's posts to your Yahoo! Profile via the Yahoo! Update service.
You just have to go to your dashboard-->My Blogs admin page. Once enabled, you've got to finish the authorization procedure then you're go !
Ansermot.ch on Twitter
Hi everyone !
We've joined Twitter yesterday.
Follow us => http://www.twitter.com/ansermotch
Dynamic Twitter signature with PHP
Nilpo offers through the site devshed a series of articles about the use of dynamic signature in PHP with twitter. It shows how to make signatures by combining cURL, XML and GD2 with PHP. You can then create images on the fly.
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