Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with facebook
05/16/2011
What Your Friends Like
A few weeks ago I was inspired by HackNY (where students design/develop/launch an app in 24 hours) and decided to try and fix a recurring problem I’ve been having with Facebook.I often want to segment my Facebook friends based on what they like (places, bands etc) and message them individually. Instead of posting to my [...]
04/29/2010
Usability Assessment of MySpace Apps Leaked
MySpace has never been know for its simplicity or usability. Fortunately for users they were trying to do something about it. Unfortunately for MySpace those documents leaked online. MySpace was seeing poor install and retention rates for their apps compared to Facebook and hired a usability team to make some web design and user experience [...]
11/30/2009
Ikea’s Facebook Photo Tagging Campaign
To announce a new store in Malmo Sweden, Ikea launched a social networking campaign using Facebook’s built in photo tagging features. Over the course of a few weeks the store manager uploaded pictures of 12 showrooms to his Facebook account. Whoever tagged an item in the showroom first with their name got to take it [...]
09/11/2009
Four major Facebook Upgrades
Over the last 24 hours Facebook has made four important announcements. Not shy about going head to head with Apple’s music announcements (or Twitter) they announced Facebook Lite, @replies, a Facebook Desktop Notifier for Mac and Tornado an open source framework for real-time web services. Facebook Lite Facebook Lite launched in the US and India, [...]
09/07/2009
New Facebook Badges
Over the past year or so Facebook has slowly been opening up more and more of their platform, making baby steps towards allowing all of a users data to be used on other websites. Earlier this week they opened up a little more, but this time releasing badges for the non-developer community. For personal accounts [...]
04/27/2009
Facebook Stream APIs
Today Facebook announced APIs for the stream (news feed and wall) allowing developers to read and write to Facebook feeds. This could open up some new opportunities for deep integration between external website and Facebook content. It’s interesting, given Twitter’s size, how much impact the service has had in the last few weeks by prompting [...]
04/01/2009
What does Facebook Connect mean for Agencies?
A really great overview of Facebook Connect. It’s geared towards agencies, but there is great information for anyone interested in integrating with Facebook. Read the article.
03/31/2009
Facebook Actionscript 3 APIs
Facebook and Adobe have partnered to create open source Actonscript 3 APIs, making it easier to create Facebook Apps using Flash. Check out the article on Adobe’s Devnet. Download source from Google code. Check out some great examples.
03/26/2009
iPhone based social network using Facebook Connect
Limbo is a mobile social networking app, built from the ground up with mobile in mind. Location based services are front of mind as well as the ability to message and filter quickly in a way that requires very little typing. A hinderance to a lot of these nicely thought out services in the past [...]
05/14/2008
Social networks begin to open up
There have been a lot of really exciting developments around social networks recently. Myspace and Facebook are opening up their networks allowing users to pull pieces of their site and functionality onto other websites. And Google is looking to totally break down the walls around social networks, making the entire web one huge social network [...]
