July 9th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Checkout these links reviewing the slideshare application , the coolest presentation sharing application on the planet 
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These are some of the links which are talking about the Slideshare facebook application, so have you added the application yet ??? if not, go get it ….
Screenshot
July 9th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
A brillant presentation, winner of the slideshare.net competition ….. Must see slideshow ….
July 5th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Today, SlideShare has shown the way and has become the first of presentation sharing site to become developer friendly. The long-awaited API has been released and yes, I have a series of tutorials in the works for using the really cool REST API released.
There is some PHP helper code (ref: SSUtil) which allows a developer to start off using the code, that code also contains some functions which can generate a SlideShare RSS feed for you. Its not great but provides a start, if you want to develop more things using the API. So hop on … and create some really cool SlideShare mashups….
More about the API and what more cool things that can be done in part II , actually the SlideShare Facebook application was built on top of the current API , that has to say a lot about how serious SlideShare is about the developer community….
Another big development was fixing the RSS(here) to the new media standard, now the feed rocks and is much more usable than before, the slideshare namespace still exists and will be extended to include other meta information that the current RSS standard doesnt allow us to include ….
Or we could always work towards pushing the new standard to fit SlideShare feeds he he …. (The RSS compatibility issue needs a complete blog post, I hate what the internet biggies have done to the RSS standard …. the readers have also made it way worse … )
So things to checkout at SlideShare.net:
SlideShare API
Improved RSS – Sample
July 4th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Cool slideshow about Last.fm …
July 4th, 2007 § 1 comment § permalink
This is going to be a series of article about the facebook application platform, my story with it started a month back. Till now I have put in a lot of effort on this for SlideShare (Which has a sizeable audience now) . To add to it I am working on a new set of applications which will be released soon. i would love to share the experiences I had with this evolving platform till now, to strart off I would like to list out some important things before starting :
1. You should understand how this facebook application set-up works. It is best explained in the wiki.
2. Decide how the app should work (iframe or FBML) , this choice will decide a lot of things about your application.
3. Remember you cannot save any meta information (except for photos) about the user in this facebook setup.
4. You should also keep in mind that uploading files has to be done outside the facebook canvas page in an iframe. (This is an very important point for a file sharing based application)
5. Last be not the least, have lots of fun while trying to build the application … thats the way to make it real viral (coz if ya enjoi it other people would for sure)
6. Some facebook applications have millions of users, you cant miss out on this platform ….
So as my apps start showing up I will keep throwing out source code, hope this helps some guys out there.
Alert:
If anyone needs to build a facebook application and needs help , dont be scared to contact me at dipankarsarkar[at] gmail [dot] com.
Relevant links:
Facebook application homepage
Developers section
Developers Wiki (The best FBML reference)