I have an idea for a holiday wall post where you can poke the fruit cake, similar to poke the rabbit. When it's shared in a Facebook wall post I would users to be able to interact with it before they would share it themselves. I have see active content in wall posts from other sites but reading the documentation, and one other SO post, has not been very fruitful. (pun intended). Can anyone share some holiday cheer and help me crack this (chest)nut?
It is called "feed gaming" and it´s only possible with swf files (Flash) afaik. Here´s the link to the docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/feed-gaming/
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I have been charged by my family to organize the 'family memories' that is creating an access page (which I image being a web page) which would link to the photos, and videos, each of them being 'tagged' such as with the name of the person that took the picture, the location, the date etc...
I have no idea where to start. I thought that SQL and HTML can be a solution but I am not sure whether I am completely wrong or not.
Does someone have an idea?
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Unic0
Yes my friend, don´t try to reinvent the wheel. Go to wordpress.org (or .com) and find a nice portfolio template that has all those needs, like tagging and fancy slideshows, lightboxes, etc.
I'm looking to add in the image of a guest poster into the main blog. Basically {PortraitURL-30} for the guest user.
In the blog I want to pull in the person silhouette, I can't seem to find the code anywhere if I use {PortraitURL-30} it'll just bring back the orange profile image.
All the necessary tickboxes for allowing thumbnails and such has been ticked, I've spent the last couple of days speaking to tumblr support with them just coming back saying they don't offer technical support.
The class for the person silhouette is post_sub_avatar, I've been looking high and low for something along the lines of
{PostSubAvatar-30} or something but I can't seem to find it!
Any help would be appreciated!
Cheers
Try this:
{block:GroupMembers}
{GroupMemberPortraitURL-30}
{/block:GroupMembers}
I spent a while looking through Facebook's polices but couldn't find anything mentioning this so hopefully someone here may know.
I want to create a page tab and put a lot of the content behind a paywall, do I need to accept Facebook Credits in addition to the other payment options?
If send the user away from Facebook to signup do I still need to accept Credits?
This is not a Game so the game specific policies don't apply
I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask a question such as this.
Thanks
If your application is not a game, then the credits migration requirement does not apply to your app whether it's an app in a tab or on canvas (ie apps.facebook.com/YOUR_APP). Only game developers who are accepting payments on their canvas app(s) are required to use Facebook Credits as their sole payment system. There is also an FAQ on Facebook's help center which explains this.
my sister asked me to do smth for her that let me scratch my head: she wants to make a signature text in a forum and wants to add sound to this signature so when her post is shown the sound will play in background together with her text signature.
I'm not sure this could be done in flash? is there a way to have some jpeg image with sound effect? or should it be a video? maybe forums restrict adding a flash doc as a signature?
any ideas to help make my little sister happy ;)
If you have the flash up and running, and you can't upload this swf to the forum as the signature, the only way to manage this is the forum let's you to use some embed code as the signature. Even then you have to find out where to put the swf content.
On the other hand you have to understand, that if a user would be able to attach any "active content" to his/her signature, the user could easily attach some code too, what could be a problem.
Imagine, you are watching a profile and while listening to the music 1000 popups would show up. So no flishy-flashy, no js and no nothing, that would be a security issue.
You can do this in flash, or you can use html5 audio tags.
But forums usually filter out flash embed tags, and probably would do the same with the audio tag, and if the forum your sister posts on doesn't do it, this would certainly cause them to start. Depending on the forum, she could also end up banned, since embedding sound in a page is usually consider very annoying.
For the happiness of your sister, don't do this.
As a software developer, I have done many web page applications and been doing blog for my programming experiences. I would like to use pictures in many cases. Pictures worth thousand words and they are universal language!
You could create your own clip art images or download graphics(actually many are open clip art/image libraries available, Open Clip Art Library as example). However your time and art skill are limited and you can only keep limited library of images.
I wish if there is any open art/image library web sites with permanent references available so that you just add a simple reference in your html page like this just like a way that you could use other people or web site's graphics:
<img src="http://OpenArtLibray.net/icon/work/DoItYourself.png".../>
In this way, there is no need to waste time to download and upload images and no waste on your and other computer's disk spaces(no duplication). Just one place with a huge amount of variety of images available, and open for people to use, or with some reasonable fees. People may vote the popularity of art/images as well.
Is there any such kind of web site available?
Typically sites discourage this. What this really does is shift the bandwidth cost to the hosting site. There have been cases where sites with pictures have analyzed the referrer to determine if images are linked to from other sites, then servering an image with text claiming the image is being 'stolen'.
The point of that, is the idea isn't very well liked.
However, some sites like w3c, allow you to link to their certification images. It all depends on what you are linking to.
It is hard to think of a business doing this, as there doesn't seem to be a revenue aspect.
Even if some were charged fees, there's a lot of work involved in checking/verifying who has paid, via referrer texts. Maybe you have a new business plan.
Update:
Oh, I have a friend who always sends me emails with links to flickr. Maybe their license lets you link to images on their site. Something for you to check out.
Update:
This text, "photo hosting sites", makes for an interesting, relevant google search.
Thanks for Chris explanation. I could accept it as a answer. However, I raised this question because I really don't like to "steal" images. I can see it is hard to charge fees, but there are some many open resources available on the web. Actually, I found one Open Clip Art Library, which allow people to contribute and share images. I found many good pictures there and downloaded. I may contribute some when I create images for my blog so I'll let people to use my.
Flickre is an open social place for people store and sharing pictures. As long as pictures are shared there, specially by people, I think you can use and link images there. Still you have to do the work: creating and uploading. Actually, I tried another open social site called as DropBox. I can create a public folder there and add my pictures for sharing. All those sites have one common problem: personal account and may not be available if inactive for certain period of time (90 days for DropBox?).
That's why I asked this question here in StackOverFlow. I hope some people may know some hosts available or any other alternative options available. Maybe it is just like Chris said, "the idea isn't very well liked".
Actually, I realize that Open Clip Art Library I mentioned in my previous email does provide image hosting-like service. If you click on any one's picture download link, it will open a new tab or window to display the graphic. The display has its URL. I have created a new user name and submitted my picture. It works well. I can include the graphics in my test web page. Not sure how long the URL will be there. It looks like permanent one.
Try searching Creative Commons licensed works. People will often upload and share photos on such places as Flickr under a Creative Commons license which allows you to remix, reference or use on your own projects, blogs or site.
There are different types of licenses under the CC with some asking you to not use their works if you're going to be making money from it or if you're engaging in commercial activity.
You just have to nod back to the original author when using items under CC and if you link back to them, that's just good karma.