So with all these fancy new APIs and such that Facebook is making available, I've noticed that on the partner sites (Pandora, docs.com, etc.), there is no login---Facebook automatically signs you in. You don't even need to press a button to connect if you already have a FB session established.
Is this a feature of the new API? Or is this a Facebook partners-only feature? I haven't seen any information on whether this is possible for cool guys that don't run huge companies.
Thanks in advance
How about the Facebook blog?
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=383404517130
Related
My company wants to include Facebook Connect into some of the web sites we sell. Getting the integrations to work properly isn't really the problem, the problem is creating the required app in a useful way.
I can create the app with my personal Facebook account, but that's no good if I quit a few years down the way, and since Facebook scrapped company accounts over Pages, it's not possible to make a company account where we can gather all the Facebook Connect apps we make.
Is there an official solution and/or working hack that will solve this problem for us?
Thanks in advance for all help!
No. You are going to have to use a "real" Facebook account for this. You also need to verify that account as a Facebook developer. This involves either submitting a phone number (SMS verification) or a credit card number.
If you are worried about using your own personal account, as your client to use his. There is no reason you should be forced to use your account - after all, its only a job right? :)
I strongly advise against opening a new "fake" account to manage your applications. Facebook is tightening their security and methods to find these fake users. Should Facebook close this "fake" account, you won't have access to your application's settings anymore.
I've recently installed the browser plugin Disconnect to keep Facebook, Twitter and Google from recording my browser history as I use the regular web while still letting me use those services when I choose to.
Can anyone explain how Disconnect works?
I'm interested in how it works to understand where my web experience might be changed or compromised and as an intellectual curiosity about what these sites are doing and how it can be blocked.
There are detailed descriptions of what our extensions do in the extension galleries (and someday soon, our site), e.g.:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo
More technically, all our extension code is open source (and well commented and otherwise readable, if I do say so myself):
https://github.com/disconnectme
I'm only guessing, but to track you, google, facebook and twitter send you a cookie to identify you. Then if you browse the web a display page that contain an adsense banner, a g+1 button an analytic script, a facebook/twitter widget, google , facebook and tweeter access this cookie.
So to prevent them to record your browsing, maybe the addon filter the cookie sent in http request or filter google/fb/twitter script/iframe/url from the viewed page.
Hope this could give you a hint.
Regards
I'm trying to make a mafia-like game on Facebook, and to do this I would need to be able to tell the mafia users that they are 'it' if you will without telling everyone else involved in a given session that they are 'it' and thus defeat the purpose of the app in the first place.
I have checked other sources, which were people asking to mass-message people or people were asking about iOS programming via facebook. Any ideas?
Use the Request Dialog 2.0 API.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/
I am developing a Facebook application. It must notify random people on Facebook about a certain event that happens related to them. I mean random people - not just those who installed the app, that's a key point.
Yeah I know it sounds like a spammy annoying application, but I swear, it's not that kind that everyone hates. :)
Is there a way to send anything (wall post? message?) to a user that did not previously installed the app?
No, that's not possible as per facebook's privacy policy. There should be some sort of connection like friendship/application user to do this.
It is possible, but only if you direct the acting user to the send message URL in a new window. If you are talking about an automated way, it is not technically possible at the moment.
It is possible through request dialog api: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/requests/
My app needs to invite friends from facebook conenct is this possibl e?
Any examples ?
Please help !
If you don't see it in the API, then it's probably not supported:
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/API
You could load the page, http://www.facebook.com/invite.php in a UIWebView. The downside is the user would have to log in then.
You might want to contact the FB API folks and request it as a feature.
You can find info about using FBC on the iPhone here
there are two modes you can use it in. One where your developer secret is in the phone app, if that makes you nervous you can proxy the authentication through your own server. FB developer site has the info along with programmer supported wikis