It's that time of the year when everyone is talking about achievements and milestones in the year gone by. After reading the quite impressive Facebook reviews, I thought: Yeah, let's do this too! After all, 2012 was a quite successful year for Die Socialisten as well! (more...) …
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[tl;dr] Starting Jan 5th 2013, certain types of photos and images on Facebook platform will be restricted as to the amount of text they may include ("text overlay"). These rules append according to the context in which images are published: Photo-postings on Facebook-pages which are subject to promoted stories may not contain more than 20% text. Non-sponsored Photo-postings are not affected. Cover images for Facebook pages may never contain more than 20% of text-overlay. Previous regulations (no …
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As developers we love building cutting-edge web apps for state-of-the-art browsers. Those are, fortunately, nowadays used be a vast majority of users (around 95% of all users in our 10 most recent projects). So for our newest project, we decided focusing on new technologies like HTML5 Canvas and the File API, among others. In this two-part article, we want to share our experiences using these techniques while building the Facebook app "tele.ring Poster-Creator".This is part 2 of the "New …
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As developers we love building cutting-edge web apps for state-of-the-art browsers. Those are, fortunately, nowadays used be a vast majority of users (around 95% of all users in our 10 most recent projects). So for our newest project, we decided focusing on new technologies like HTML5 Canvas and the File API, among others. In this two-part article, we want to share our experiences using these techniques while building the Facebook app "tele.ring Poster-Creator". Since this is an article mainly …
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Here at Die Socialisten we think a lot about our internal processes and how to speed them up. Because we’re doing a lot of agency work, our deadlines are often quite challenging. Today we came up with a (only half-serious) way to improve the OG approval process.Approximately one year ago, one of Facebook’s biggest additions to the Facebook Platform was launched: Open Graph. The best part of this is the ability to create custom actions which are published to the Facebook Platform. …
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