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Contest for Facebook Developers

Sander Smith — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:25:09 +0000

Facebook developers:

Do you have some best practices you can share about building Facebook applications?

Have a good story about some obstacles you had to overcome when building your app?

Do you like to win prizes?

If you answered YES to any two of these questions, we have a contest for you. Sponsored by BrowserMob and FriendRunner, go here to submit your info to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Hurry, submissions close on April 5.

BrowserMob Partners with FriendRunner

Sander Smith — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:42:04 +0000

BrowserMob, the popular cloud-based load testing platform from Neustar has joined forces with FriendRunner to provide a powerful solution for load testing Facebook applications. With these platforms combined, developers will be better able to test Facebook applications and ensure they are ready for viral deployment before launching them publicly to the Facebook community.

BrowserMob allows developers to identify web performance bottlenecks, get a handle on the amount of traffic their site can handle, and make sure that applications are ready for launch. By partnering with FriendRunner, BrowserMob customers can overcome the traditional problems with testing Facebook applications.

Some of the key features of this combined solution include:

Selenium open-source toolkit
Export MySQL
Fast set-up — start testing in minutes, plus run a free test immediately
Supports testing of Flash applications
And More….

For more information about the BrowserMob partnership with FriendRunner, please click here.

Facebook Terms of Use: Take them seriously!

Sander Smith — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:01:22 +0000

Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital has some exclusive insights into the Ping / Facebook controversy. For those of you who don’t know, Apple recently announced Ping, a service that it’s positioning as a social network for music lovers (like what we need is ANOTHER social network).

Now social networks are pretty worthless until lots of people are members, so it’s imperitive to make it as simple as possible for new members to recruit their friends and make them members too. Historically, this has been done by importing email address books, but now there’s a new way to find people’s friends: Facebook. Facebook even gives developers an API so that applications can programmatically get your list of friends – perfect for a service like Ping to ramp up its member numbers.

And alas, that’s what Mr. Jobs et. al. tried to do. This was quickly countered by Facebook playing their Terms of Use trump card to cut off API access to Ping and Apple. They rightfully claimed that a service like Ping would cause a huge load on their server infrastructure, and without a special agreement (as the TOU dictates) they had the right to cut Apple off.

So if you’ve been unsure as to whether Facebook really enforces their rules, the answer is yes they do, and they will act quickly. If your application puts undue strain on the Facebook servers you DO need to work with them to ensure that everyone remains happy. If you’re not sure about how much server interaction your application has with Facebook, you can test your Facebook application with a tool like FriendRunner.

FriendRunner announces customer success

Sander Smith — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:25:00 +0000

FriendRunner, the cloud-based tool for load-testing Facebook applications recently announced a customer success story from Hobsons, a leading provider of educational products and services. Hobsons used FriendRunner before deploying its mySchools by Hobsons Facebook application.

To learn more about their experience with Friendrunner, the only tool available to properly load test Facebook applications, click here.