It does, both literally and figuratively - the word means “friend” in Hawaiian. If you haven’t come across this already, it’s code name for Google project that aims to embed social fabric into all their current offerings including Orkut, Gmail and Google talk. It’s a big plan to go one-up on Facebook, and no one [...]

Looking around on the web, it seems the biggest hurdle that people face while writing a Facebook application in java is getting the authentication piece to work. There are some blogs where the solutions have been posted, and that would work. However, I noticed that they recommend using login servlet url as the callback [...]

I recently tried to get my hands dirty with Facebook application development platform. I know there are a bunch of resources available on the web to help you in the process, but when I was trying get my tiny app to work, I realized there were a few things which aren’t explained too well on [...]