Adding Your Application To The Graph
Recently Jeff Attwood asked: Is meta description still relevant? In the question he quoted an anonymous “expert”: Meta descriptions are used by Google probably 80% of the time for the snippet. They don’t help with rankings but you should probably use them. You could just auto generate them from the first part of the question. To be honest I think this recommendation comes from stalwarts in the SEO community who just can’t move past the fact that their knowledge of how search worked back in 1999 isn’t how it works in 2011. It use to be that the description tag was used as the blurb below the title, because no real analytics was really done on a page. Everything you searched for was based on the keyword or the description meta tags. ...
MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform
Just recently I started experimenting with the ASP.NET MVC Framework and the Facebook Development Platform, it has been a very bumpy road, but I have ironed out some major issues that I would like to share with you today. I will start with a little history of what I am trying to do. For about a month and a half I have had one of my IdeaPipe interns, Dimitry, experimenting with creating a FBML (Facebook Meta Language) Application with MVC. MVC is an ideal platform for FBML because with MVC you have total control over your markup which is needed to have a lean FBML application. I am not going to go in to the differences of developing an FBML vs IFrame Facebook Application, because that information is easily found with a Google Search. What I am going to talk about is the hurdles I overcame and the custom software I had to develop to get MVC working smoothly with Facebook. ...
Creating a Facebook Application using MVC
Facebook has been growing in popularity ever since it was released on February 4th 2004 at an almost unstoppable pace. Up until May 24th, 2007, it wasn’t much different than MySpace (or insert your favorite social network here), however on that day they rolled out a SDK that turned Facebook from a destination website to a platform that let any developer interact with their almost 71 million users. You can read more about the history of Facebook at Wikipedia. ...