02 Nov 2010
We’ve been pretty excited about work we’ve been doing with Linkfluence, a cutting-edge firm out of Paris (ooh la la) that, in their own words, analyzes, segments, and maps conversations taking place in social web communities. Essentially, they’ve analyzed and mapped the social web in France, the UK, and the US. In 2009, based on their mapping of the US, they launched a site called Politicosphere, which gives an insightful look at how (or if) political conversations track through the online political community. As tomorrow is election day, the online world is buzzing with political conversations. As we are in the process of working to relaunch and run Politicosphere, I’ve got the intersection of politics and social media on my mind. On that note, I want to draw attention to an interactive map the New York Times put up. This map looks at Twitter buzz around individual candidates’ Twitter handles,…
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29 Jun 2010
NOTE: I’ve moved the source code for this project to Git Hub, please get it here: http://github.com/reallylongaddress/iPhone-Facebook-Graph-API Preface In part 1 of this tutorial we walked through obtaining an oAuth 2.0 access token from Facebook via an iPhone (or any iTouch device). If you wish to go back and review the oAuth 2.0 process in some detail HERE. In the second part of this tutorial I’ll show you how to leverage my pseudo-API to: Login to Facebook using oAuth 2.0 Request extended permissions for your mobile application (photos, videos, publish stream and offline access) Get your profile data Get your friend list Get your feed Post to your feed Post a photo (via a local image (UIImage) not a url) Get metadata Delete a feed post (via a Post) Get search results Get (and display) the author’s avatar Convention There are 2 APIs being talked about in this tutorial. To…
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22 Jun 2010
I wonder if James Surowiecki thought that crowdsourcing was poised to become an internet hot topic when he wrote The Wisdom of Crowds. Whether or not he knew, his book certainly got to the strategic core of the why’s and how’s of the power of the crowd. I read that book in 2004 and I was simply passionate about it. I wanted to understand how to better harness the concept of aggregate thinking (not crowd thinking) to make better decisions. Throwing money into the abyss? I was quite excited when Kiva first opened its (virtual) doors. Kiva harnessed the power of storytelling, as well as ease of online payment, to help online individuals make a difference they felt connected to. I was equally excited when I watched the rise of crowdsourced funding in the startup world. I believe there is value in this. I know some people who argue that…
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25 May 2010
NOTE: The source code for this tutorial is still linked below, however the FULL Facebook/iPhone Graph API can be found here: http://github.com/reallylongaddress/iPhone-Facebook-Graph-API The new Facebook Graph API looks to be the cat’s meow, the bee’s knees, the coolest thing since sliced bread. Ok, that’s a bit much… but it is a whole lot more powerful, easier and cross-platform consistent than the previous plethora of Facebook APIs. The Graph API was announced at Facebook’s F8 conference just over a month ago. At the time of release, I was surprised no iPhone SDK was made available. I fully expected that at least an unofficial SDK as well as full blown tutorials would be out en-mass by now, but to no avail. Not nearly patient enough to wait for an official SDK or iPhone API from Facebook, I asked Google how to “Facebook oAuth 2.0 iPhone” and was disappointed with the results. It…
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