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Introducing Fluidinfo: From API to Web Interface

By Nicholas Radcliffe : 17 April 2012 - 12:40 AM
Many web-based applications begin life as a website offering a service and gradually develop a public API. Fluidinfo is unusual in having done exactly the reverse. What is Fluidinfo? Fluidinfo is a ...
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How to Crawl Followers on Twitter to Approximate Potential Influence

By chco : 26 April 2011 - 11:23 AM
Suppose you want to approximate someone’s influence based upon their popularity and the popularity of their followers. The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication 21 Recipes for Mining T...
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How to Customize Your Facebook News Feed

By adfm : 12 May 2010 - 02:29 PM
Facebook can get overwhelming if you have a lot of contacts in your network. This excerpt from E. A. Vander Veer's Facebook: The Missing Manual will show you how to customize your news feed so you can...
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How to Delete Your Facebook Account

By adfm : 11 May 2010 - 02:58 PM
Do you want to delete your account from Facebook, but can't quite find the right button? In this simple how-to you'll learn the easy-to-remember way of deleting your account. No obscure URLs o...
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How to Set Up a Meeting in Facebook

By adfm : 05 May 2010 - 01:41 PM
Looking for an easy way to gather everyone together for a meeting, including people outside your organization? This excerpt from E. A. Vander Veer's Facebook: The Missing Manual, Second Edition will...
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What compels people to buy and sell goods in games like Farmville?

Asked by MikeH : 10 December 2009 - 12:31 PM

Answered by jonjohns65 : Dec 10 2009 02:02 PM
I have to admit to playing Farmville, as well as other APPS, and other games. I am in no way a programmer, but rather, the confusing end user, who is both Fiercely loyal, and fickle at the same time.... full answer >
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How to Get the Audience Involved

By ScottBerkun : 09 November 2009 - 02:35 PM
At the beginning of my public-speaking career, I never involved the audience simply because I was terrified of them. I found that when I let people ask me questions midway through the talk, I'd get fl...
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How to Deal with Hecklers

By MaryO : 06 November 2009 - 12:07 PM
If you're gearing up to give a presentation and are concerned about the venue rather than your material or ability to present it, then these tips from Confessions of a Public Speaker should come in ha...
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