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How To Make A Friendly Facebook Like Button

First I was very excited when I saw the new Facebook Like Button. But when I checked the code to see how it works, I noticed that this button actually allows Facebook to track all the Facebook users on your site, no matter if they click it or not (see my previous post on how this works).

As a publisher, you might not want to annoy the visitors of your site with that. So I hacked together an alternative like button, that only connects to Facebook if you click it. Continue reading How To Make A Friendly Facebook Like Button

New Tutorial and Updates for the SoundCloud AS3 API

I just wrote a new tutorial for the SoundCloud AS3 API, “How to Go Through OAuth Authentication in a Single Browser Window”. This tutorial explains how to set up a web-based Flash application in a way that the user stays in the same browser window during the OAuth authentication and does not need to copy /paste the verification code manually. Continue reading New Tutorial and Updates for the SoundCloud AS3 API

Updates to the SoundCloud AS3 API

During the last week I made some improvements to the SoundCloud AS3 API library:

  • Full ASDoc documentation is now available online
  • Uploaded an example file for Flash CS4
  • API is now prepared for scenarios where you want to automatically get an access token after authentication (I’ll do an extra post on this in the next days)
  • Added support for requests to public resources without having to authenticate first

Continue reading Updates to the SoundCloud AS3 API

Quick Start Tutorial for the SoundCloud AS3 API

The first release version of the SoundCloud AS3 API wrapper is now available on github. This library enables your Flash or Flex projects to communicate with SoundCloud’s API to upload tracks, create playlists, edit user info and so on. It handles all the complicated OAuth authentication in the background so you only have to deal with a few simple methods. Continue reading Quick Start Tutorial for the SoundCloud AS3 API