Scraping Birthdays from Facebook
I used some hacky JavaScript to scrape my friends birthdays from Facebook so that I can put them in my actual calendar.
Tag: facebook
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How to make test users work with Facebook Messenger Bots
It's not massively easy, and it's definitely not clear. But you CAN have test users for your Messenger bot. Here's how!
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Improving internal communications – it’s a people problem…
Some useful experience and insight for people wanting to try to help improve communications in their teams.
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Thoughts on AMP
Some un-structured thoughts on Google's (AMP) project and Facebook's Instant Articles and how they might affect small publishers.
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Blatent Plug(in): WP Quick Image – WordPress plugin for new year photo bloggers
If you've resolved to take a photo-of-the-day in 2015 and you're into self publishing then my WP Quick Image plugin might help you out.
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A +1 for Google
I confess, I followed most of the Google I/O Keynote Speech on Wednesday. The Verge sums it up), or you can watch the entire 3.5 hours below. It was at times very dull, but there was an awful lot of very clever stuff in there. It’s probably known that I’m a fan of what Google […]
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Facebook Photo Sync
Not that I’ll be using it but…I knew Facebook were going to do photo sync from mobiles. Has it been announced? Or did they sneak it in?
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Facebook’s Flaws
After minimising my Facebook presence and deleting all my Instagram photos I wanted to explain a bit more why I’ve done those things. I’m finding it quite hard to articulate succinctly, but I’ll give it a go anyway. I know that Instagram have backtracked on their new terms and conditions around what they will do […]
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Consolidating the Networks
So it seems like the fuss about Instagram’s Terms and Conditions was over-hyped. It always seemed that way. But it has pushed me over a tipping point anyway. Yesterday and today have seen me starting to process of deleting data from Facebook and Instagram, and seriously considering what other social networking accounts I have.
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The little one
Sally and I both use social media a lot so you may think that it would be entirely natural for us to keep some detailed online records of the pregnancy, birth (well, not the birth, but the immediate time after), and early days with our boy. BUT...