Social Design is a product strategy model that places users at the core of an experience. It allows products and brands to scale by incorporating a user’s trusted communities, driving conversation and creates a strong sense of identity through the experience. This is a model that Facebook has popularized in the development of their [...]
On April 21st, Amazon Web Services experienced a service interruption, disrupting servers for many large and prominent businesses. Among those who were affected included an abundance of social services and websites such as Foursquare, HootSuite and Reddit. At Stuzo | Dachis Group, we leverage EC2 for some of our hosting services and experienced temporary issues with our server infrastructure, as the Amazon back up systems did not kick in. As a result, this affected client applications which were live on Facebook, corporate websites, and elsewhere on the web.
There have been discussions among the Facebook Developer ecosystem the past few weeks regarding the possible deprecation of the Facebook Share button to make the “Like” action the primary share point across the web. With the recent announcement that FBML will no longer be supported, indeed, the FBML Share action is deprecated. However, developers still have access to register a relevant action in their applications using the “stream.share” method in the JS SDK available. Unofficial documentation on this feature is available, and is not documented by Facebook. In fact, when searching for official documentation on “Facebook Share”, the search redirects visitors to the Like button documentation.
Recently, Facebook announced breaking news that will ultimately provide better methods for brands to engage and communicate with their customers. Here’s how to think about the new opportunities.
