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Orkut Promote : Get yourself or blog Promoted for free

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:42:47 +0000

Orkut promotions, a new intriguing way to promote yourself or your blog. Still in early stages but this is going to make out something in market as it’s like having your own advertisement in orkut for FREE!!!
So, Folks do you see a better monetizing opportunity with this. Think bright you might use this new orkut promote tool for making your webpage rank more high.

What is orkut Promote?
Orkut Promote lets you and your friends share YouTube videos, photos, or text with each other, so you can easily spread word of a funny video, a cool picture, or an upcoming event.
You can reshare your friends promotions, and they can reshare yours, so the information can spread throughout orkut.
Once you’ve promoted something, you can track how many people have seen your promotion, and how many of them have shared it with their friends or trashed it under the my promotions tab.

Check out the video..it explains everything..

How do I start with Orkut Promotion?

Visit your Homepage in Orkut and eye towards the left side of Page. You Could see an Extra Tab “Promote” (See Screen Shot Above)

Using The Promote Link You Could Create Your Own Promotions and View Stats of Your Already Created Promotions….

Make Sure You Have Edited and Styled Your Promotion. Presently Allows 3 Ways to Publicize.

Text
Photos
Youtube Videos

Preview your Promotion before Publishing It! Once You are Okay with it! Click on “Create Promotion Link”!

Where Exactly Will be Orkut Promotions Displayed?
Your Created Orkut Promotions will Run through out your Friends Network in Orkut. It starts displaying at homepage of your Friends Profile Just Replacing The Orkut Ads Now and Then! What’s More! Your Stuff Goes Viral!

Promote or Trash?!

Your Friends Who Sees The Orkut Promotion in their page Shall Vote Up by Saying “Cool Promote it” or Just Trash it!

If your Friend promotes your stuff, It is a Bonus for You and Your Orkut Promotion Jumps to Next Level. Your Created Promotion will be displayed across his Friends Network as well. And Goes Viral!

How Do I Analyse the Performance of my Created Orkut Promotions?

Under The Promote, There is One More Section Called “My Promotions” which lists You all the Promotions you created including the details like

How many Impressions it Got (Views).
How many of Them Have Clicked on your Promotion(Clicks).
How Many of Them have liked and Promoted your Promo(Promotions).
How Many of Them have Trashed your Creation(Trash) .

You Can Even Analyse the “Reach” which Keeps Track of different Levels how people viewed. (When Promoted Promo is again Promoted By other REACH keeps Track of it)

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Facebook Hello World Application

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:47:13 +0000

Okay to create a new aplication on facebook, we will begin with developing the most basic application that ever be..!! This is just to realize some basic concepts on viewing facebook application on canvas page and other minor details.

Project : Hello world

Required : Web space(where you can host your application), BAsic knowledge of PHP and java.

Setps :

Create a new page on your website as hello-world.php and place it in your application directory of your site.(Create a application directory as “facebook” in the root of your site.)
Download Client Library (This package has all the files that make up the official PHP Client Library, as well as a sample application)
Unrar this folder in the root directory for your applications in your site.
Now copy the code below and save it in your hello-world.php file.

require_once ‘facebook.php’;

$appapikey = ‘YOUR APPLICATION KEY’;

$appsecret = ‘YOUR APPLICATION SECRET YOUR’;

$facebook = new Facebook($appapikey, $appsecret);

$user_id = $facebook->require_login();

// Greet the currently logged-in user!

echo “
Hello, !
”;

// This just uses a fb:name to recive your name and then display it. This is an example of signed canvas. You might hav to login to view your application page.

Now configure Your application on facebook.
Register a new application on facebook.
In settings tab, Set Canvas page URL as “hello-world”(This does not support more than 20 characters and capital letters)
And Callback URL as the absolute URL of the page we just saved.(hello-world.php)
Wollah..you are done..with your first application on facebook.
Now go to the canvas page url to check if everthings wqorking fine. If not don’t worry..just ask me..!!! It would work newayz..!!

This might not enerzige you a lot as this does not do many a things besides printing your name on the application page ( or the one who is viewing this page.) . But this builds your basic to get things going.

Now you can build any page in simple php and try to render it on canvas page. Keep trying..!!

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Canvas callback page and fb_* variables passed

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:05:00 +0000

The callback page is the page Facebook calls whenever it needs to notify your app of something or get the content of the canvas page for your app.

Canvas Pages & Callback Pages

Note that the user can be either logged into facebook or not, and even if a user is logged in, he/she might have authorized the app, or not. As an app programmer, you can allow the user to authorize later by holding back on the $facebook->require_login() call. So, technically, three states are possible:

The user is not logged in to Facebook.
The user is logged in to Facebook, but has not “granted access” to your application.
The user is logged in to Facebook, and has “granted access” to your application.

The variables passed to the callback page when served on the canvas page in these three states correspondingly are:

The user is not logged in to Facebook.

fb_sig_in_canvas => 1 [1/0, is this a request for a canvas page?]
fb_sig_request_method => GET
fb_sig_position_fix => 1
fb_sig_locale => en_US
fb_sig_in_new_facebook => 1
fb_sig_time => 124….34.8315
fb_sig_logged_out_facebook => 1
fb_sig_added => 0
fb_sig_api_key => a8..API_KEY_OF_APP…b2
fb_sig_app_id => 7..THE_APP_ID..9
fb_sig => 98…SOME_RANDOM_SIG…19

Live Example : Visit this link without logging into facebook and check the variables passed :

http://apps.facebook.com/manishalexin/blog/canvas_unsigned.php

The user is logged in to Facebook, but has not “granted access” to your application.

fb_sig_in_canvas => 1 [1/0, is this a request for a canvas page?]
fb_sig_request_method => GET
fb_sig_position_fix => 1
fb_sig_locale => en_US
fb_sig_in_new_facebook => 1
fb_sig_time => 123….56.5721
fb_sig_added => 0
fb_sig_api_key => a8..API_KEY_OF_APP…b2
fb_sig_app_id => 7..THE_APP_ID..9
fb_sig => 98…SOME_RANDOM_SIG…19

Live Example : Visit this link without logging into facebook and check the variables passed :

http://apps.facebook.com/manishalexin/blog/canvas_signed.php

(First Login to facebook and then go this example to see the diffrence in variables..)

The user is logged in to Facebook, and has “granted access” to your application.

fb_sig_in_canvas => 1 [1/0, is this a request for a canvas page?]
fb_sig_request_method => GET
fb_sig_friends => here, will, be, a, comma, separated, list, of, userids, of, the, authorizing, user
fb_sig_position_fix => 1
fb_sig_locale => en_US
fb_sig_in_new_facebook => 1
fb_sig_time => 12….72.9749
fb_sig_added => 1
fb_sig_profile_update_time => 12…95
fb_sig_expires => 12….00 [is 0 if the session key contained in fb_sig_session_key never expires]
fb_sig_user => USERID_OF_AUTHORING_USER..2101
fb_sig_session_key => 2.2 …SESSION_KEY….2101
fb_sig_ext_perms => auto_publish_recent_activity
fb_sig_api_key => a8..API_KEY_OF_APP…b2
fb_sig_app_id => 7..THE_APP_ID..9
fb_sig => 98…SOME_RANDOM_SIG…19

Live Example : Visit this link without logging into facebook and check the variables passed :

http://apps.facebook.com/manishalexin/blog/canvas_signed_granted.php

When any user installs your app for the first time, the following parameters are passed to your callback page via GET:

installed=1
auth_token=(some value)

These variables can be used to control various objects in your program..!! I will let you know hoe to effectively use these variables in your program. Stay tuned..(:))

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Facebook Tutorial-Application Settings(Connect,Widgets & Advanced)

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:32:05 +0000

Continuing on my “Settings for application” tab dsecription..in which i have already described in detail the Canvas and Profiles tab and Basic and Authentication tab.

Settings : Connect

Facebook Connect Settings

Connect URL

Your Connect site’s main URL.

Facebook Connect Logo Change your logo The image that appears in the Facebook Connect dialog.

Limit: 99px wide and 22px tall.

Account Preview URL

Facebook pulls the content from here and displays it to the user in a Facebook Connect request.

Base Domain

Use this to enable your Facebook Connect implementation to span multiple subdomains (e.g., using example.com would enable foo.example.com and bar.example.com).

Account Reclamation URL

A URL that will be provided to a user that deactivates their Facebook account, to allow an independent account to be set up. See further documentation.

Facebook Connect Settings

Connect URL : Your Connect site’s main URL.

Facebook Connect Logo : The image that appears in the Facebook Connect dialog. Limit: 99px wide and 22px tall.

Account Preview URL : Facebook pulls the content from here and displays it to the user in a Facebook Connect request.

Base Domain : Use this to enable your Facebook Connect implementation to span multiple subdomains (e.g., using example.com would enable foo.example.com and bar.example.com).

Account Reclamation URL : A URL that will be provided to a user that deactivates their Facebook account, to allow an independent account to be set up. See further documentation.

Friend Linking

Friend Linking Access Requested or Not Requested — Enable if you would like to apply for access to the Friend Linking feature. Only those applications that already have some form of native friend linking should request Friend Linking access. Proof on native friend linking functionality is also required if the request is to be considered.

How Site Uses Friend Linking : Explain why you need access to the Friend Linking feature, and how your website will use it.

Native Friend Linking : Yes or No — Select Yes if your site uses a contact importer or provides some other way to search for other users.

Native Friend Linking Documentation : Please explain how the contact importing feature or search works. If possible, provide a URL linking to documentation.

Template Bundles

Previously Submitted Template Bundles : History of all those template bundles that have already been submitted for auto-publishing of one line feed stories.

Note: Connect applications should start using the stream.publish API method instead of feed.publishUserAction.

Settings : Widgets

Widgets Administration

Application Developers : Owners Profile name will be displayed.

Administrators : Widget Administrators can edit widget settings. Note that all application developers can also act as Administrators.

Moderator : Widget Moderators can moderate content, whitelists, and blacklists.

Notification Subscribers : You can subscribe yourself as well by using the check box – Include me! Subscribers will receive a notification whenever content is added.

Comments Box Global Settings

Permissions Mode : Whitelist Mode or Blacklist Mode

– Whitelist Mode : Content can only be viewed by users on the Whitelist.

– Blacklist Mode : Content can be viewed by anyone not on the Blacklist.

Whitelist : In Whitelist Mode, only these users can view content.

Blacklist : In Blacklist Mode, these users cannot interact with widgets.

Allow Anonymous Comments : Yes or No. — Allow users without a Facebook account to comment using name and email address.

Settings : Advanced

Advanced Settings

Application Type : WebDesktop

Sandbox Mode : Enable or Disable. — Lets only the developers of your application see it. It’s Developer mode, you can quitely develop it on facebook even without letting anyone know that it’s there.

Mobile Integration

SMS Integration : Enable or Disable – Lets you integrate your application with SMS.

iPhone Application ID : If you have an iPhone app using Connect, fill this in with your Apple-provided application ID.

Attachments

Attachment Text : The label for your application’s link to attach content. Examples: Attach Photos, Attach Files, Share Link.

Attachment Callback URL : Facebook pulls the content for your attachment interface from here.

Security

Server Whitelist : Facebook blocks requests using your API key from any IP address not in this comma-separated list.

Session Secret Whitelist Exception : Enable or Disable – If you are using a Server Whitelist, choose “Enable” to allow applications using a session-based temporary secret (such as Facebook Connect and iframe applications) to bypass the whitelist.

Legal

Video Rentals : Does your site publish feed stories involving video sales, rentals, or subscriptions?

– Yes or No — If applicable, your site must comply with the Video Privacy Protection Act, including obtaining explicit, opt-in consent prior to sharing user data with Facebook.

Advertising

Advertising Account : The advertising account you would like to associate with the application. Please enter the email address you used when creating this account on Facebook.

for further questions please feel free to leave a comment or contact me..! In next tutorials i will start to explain how to make a simple page on your application canvas.

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Facebook Tutorial – Application Settings(Profile & Canvas)

admin — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:44:38 +0000

Continuing on my description of “Settings for Application” . I have already described in detail of how to Register for a new facebook application and application settings of Basic and Authentication

Settings : Profiles

Profile Tab

Tab Name

The label for your application tab on a profile.

Tab URL

http://apps.facebook.com/mk-quiz-drama/ Facebook pulls content for your tab from this URL, which must be relative to your canvas page.

Tab Name : The label for your application tab on a profile.

Tab URL : Facebook pulls content for your tab from this URL, which must be relative to your canvas page.

Profile Box

Default Column : Wide or Narrow – Where your profile box initially appears. Users can move the box elsewhere on the profile.

Info Section

Information Update Callback URL : Facebook pings this URL when a user changes data in your application’s info section on their profile.

Profile Publisher

Publish Text : The label for your application’s Publisher link for creating content on a friend’s profile. Examples: Update Status, Share Link, Add Photos. You can use your application’s name.

Publish Callback URL : Facebook pulls the content for your users’ friends’ Publisher interface from here.

Self-Publish Text : The label for your application’s Publisher link for creating content on a user’s own profile. Examples: Update Status, Share Link, Add Photos. You can use your application’s name.

Self-Publish Callback URL : Facebook pulls the content for your users’ Publisher interface from here.

Facebook Page Administration

Edit URL : Page Administrators should be able to edit application settings at this URL.

Settings : Canvas

Required URLs

Canvas Page URL : The base URL for your canvas pages on Facebook.

Canvas Callback URL : Facebook pulls the content for your application’s canvas pages from this URL.

Optional URLs

Bookmark URL : The URL to load when a user clicks your application’s bookmark. If left blank, this field defaults to the Canvas Page URL.

Post-Authorize Redirect URL : Where to redirect users when they first authorize your application. If left blank, this field defaults to the Canvas Page URL.

Canvas Settings

Render Method : IFrame or FBML — Choose whether you will render your canvas page in an iframe or with FBML. Note that you can use XFBML in an iframe.

IFrame Size : Smart size or Resizable – For iframe applications, choose whether you want to smartsize the iframe so it fits in the remaining space on the canvas page, or to make it resizable.

Canvas Width : Full width (760px) or Old width (646px) – If you haven’t updated your canvas pages to the wider width of the new profile, this centers your narrower content on the wider canvas.

Quick Transitions : On or Off – Speeds up page transitions on canvas pages by skipping the reload of the Facebook frame.

will be continued..

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Facebook Tutorial – Application Settings(Basic & Authentication)

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:55:25 +0000

Continuing on my first facebook tutorial,which was just a mere begining on to get things started, i would like to move to a more basic but important aspect of facebook application development.

Application settings

Yes application settings..! I used to wonder..that why do facebook want so many information about our application..?? But..it wasn’t for facebook..it is for us..!!

I’ll try to explain every setting in detail to give you a better idea of how your application would behave if you. You can then modify these settings to make your application work the way you want it..!!

Application settings : Basic

Essential Information

Application Name : Cannot contain Facebook trademarks or have a name that can be confused with an application built by Facebook.

Application ID : ID of your application given by facebook. It’s like username of your application.

API Key : Your public API key. API is an Application Programming Interface, an interface that defines the ways by which an application program may request services from libraries and/or operating systems.

Secret : Do not share your secret key with anyone. It’s like password for your application.

Basic Information

Description : The plaintext description of your application.

Icon : The image that appears next to your application name throughout Facebook. Size Limit : 16×16 px

Logo : The image that appears in the Application Directory and with your requests. Size Limit : 75×75 px

Language : The native language of your application. Facebook supports many other langugaes than english.

Developers : Developers can edit this application and see it in sandbox mode. These names also appear on your application’s Application Profile.

Contact Information

Developer Contact Email : The email address where Facebook can contact you.

User Support Address : The address where users can contact you about your application. You can enter an email address or an absolute URL.

User-Facing URLs

Help URL : The absolute URL to your application’s user help page.

Privacy URL : The absolute URL to your application’s privacy settings page.

Terms of Service URL : The absolute URL to your application’s terms of service.

Application settings : Authentication

Authentication Settings

Installable to? : Which types of Facebook profile can your application be installed to? It can be installed to either facebook pages or users.

Authentication Callback URLs

Post-Authorize Callback URL : Facebook pings this URL when a user first authorizes your application.Cannot be a Facebook-framed page. When a user allows or authenticates your application you can redirect the user to a new location or page using this parameter. It can be used as a greeting page to welcome user to your application.

Post-Remove Callback URL : Facebook pings this URL when a user removes your application.Cannot be a Facebook-framed page.When a user removes or uninstall your application you can redirect the user to a new location or page using this parameter. It can be used for removing users database information and greeting them goodbye.

Will be continued...

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