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The monumental Myspace cock-up

Jonathon Horsman Feb 04 2 comments

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What will become of the once glorious and hideous social media powerhouse and youth hang out Myspace?

Is it possible to salvage the value destroyed by Murdoch’s Newscorp?

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How twifficiency became a Twitter sensation in 24 hours

Jonathon Horsman Aug 19 1 comment

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Twifficency is an interesting lesson in how to succeed in social media by combining the right ingredients which appeal human nature.

Ironically that wasn’t the intention at all, and when its 17 year old creator went to bed on Monday night he had no inkling of the looming storm which he would awake to the next morning.

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Download you twitter feed using Ruby on Rails with OAuth

Jonathon Horsman Sep 15 8 comments

Twitter provides an easy to use API allowing you to display your tweets on another web site or inside another application.

Here is a step-by-step tutorial explaining how to modify your Ruby on Rails application to download tweets using the new OAuth authentication mechanism.

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Developing Facebook applications for Ruby on Rails

Jonathon Horsman Jul 20 6 comments

We recently developed a Facebook Connect application for a client. There’s a lot to learn if you’re going down this path so hopefully this will help you get started.

Even if you’re not a Ruby on Rails developer there is several tips here which will should help you if you encounter one of the many mysterious and inexplicable Facebook quirks.

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To Follow or Not to Follow...

Scott Nicolson Mar 11 0 comments

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Is it necessary to follow someone on twitter because they are following you? Is there any sense of obligation here and what are the pros and cons of each side of the argument.

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