Start off by enabling EPEL if you haven’t done so already:
rpm -ivh http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Next, install Python 2.6
yum install python26

Then install mod_python 2.6
yum install python26-mod_python

I chose to run it under apache so next you need to edit your httpd.conf file.

LoadModule python_module modules/python26-mod_python.so
LoadModule python_module libexec/apache2/python26-mod_python.so

AddHandler mod_python .py


Please note the path to Python as well as the PythonOption path. I put my websock handlers in the var folder but you can put it anywhere just make sure to create the document root for those websocket handlers.

After this you can restart your server:
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Once restarted you can then download the pywebsocket repository

cd
svn checkout http://pywebsocket.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pywebsocket-read-only


Then install:

cd pywebsocket-read-only
cd src

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install


Next you will need to also add this to httpd.conf:


PythonPath "sys.path+['/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages']"
PythonOption mod_pywebsocket.handler_root /var/websock_handlers
PythonHeaderParserHandler mod_pywebsocket.headerparserhandler
PythonOption mod_pywebsocket.allow_draft75 On



Then all you have to do is restart apache, create the repository from above (in my example it is /var/websock_handlers). Then cp over echo_wsh.py from the /src/examples directory. Finally all you need to run is ./echo_client.py and you should receive some output similar to:


Send: Hello
Recv: Hello
Send: 日本
Recv: 日本
Send: Goodbye
Recv: Goodbye


What I originally received:

To turn this into an event based tracking tag you will need to use JavaScript and add the following:


function fireAtlasActionTag(uniqueActionTagCode) {
var atlasJavascriptTag = document.createElement('script');
atlasJavascriptTag.type = 'text/javascript';
atlasJavascriptTag.src = 'http://view.atdmt.com/jaction/' + uniqueActionTagCode;
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(atlasJavascriptTag);
}


and finally to call the tracking tag:


fireAtlasActionTag('SOME_TRACKING_TAG');


Calls to FB.getLoginStatus are now different.

Old Method

FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if (response.authResponse) {
// logged in and connected user, someone you know

} else {
}
}


New Method

FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if (response.status === 'connected') {
// the user is logged in and connected to your
// app, and response.authResponse supplies
// the user's ID, a valid access token, a signed
// request, and the time the access token
// and signed request each expire
var uid = response.authResponse.userID;
var accessToken = response.authResponse.accessToken;
} else if (response.status === 'not_authorized') {
// the user is logged in to Facebook,
//but not connected to the app
} else {
// the user isn't even logged in to Facebook.
}
});


• Post to viewing user’s wall
• Use a friend-selector – requires page refresh – to send message directly to friend of viewing user
• Attempting to capture the data prior to page refresh has not worked thus far – still trying to figure this one out
• Unable to tag user’s in posts

Use the Graph API

• Requires user permission and requested extended permissions for stream publishing
• Seems that tagging MAY be possible via Graph API – see: facebook developer forum and tag user and doesnt seem to work
• Would post behind the scenes and not show a feed dialog

EOL for certain code
In 2009 Facebook announced they would be deprecating FBML application tab support. They had already deprecated canvas applications in FBML a while prior. The interesting thing is that some FBML tags have been migrated to XFBML while others have not. Things such as fb:multi-friend-selector have not been completely ported to XFBML (unknown whether they ever will) and require the use of a clunky serverFbml tag.

Lack of documentation
Documentation on Facebook has been lacking and a point of emphasis for them currently. Functions are not documented and others are still buggy even though they are listed. The best resource for help on Facebook isn’t even their forum because it is dead, but rather Stack Overflow

Then uncheck the top check box so that you can add Environmental Variables then add NSZombiesEnabled and set its value to YES

I will post a tutorial shortly but here are a few screenshots.

It seems that klout.com has taken over our department. CTO + Klout have joined forces to potentially decrease productivity in the office by who knows how much. Me posting this post @ 10am on a Thursday also reaffirms that fact.

Is this scary? Yes. Does this mean we are less productive? Who knows. I’m no scientist. But below you can see my coworkers and myself and I have outlined the work hours in red.

Klout doesn’t care that you have 1000s of followers. See: http://twitter.com/anthony He has a high number of followers but if you don’t get responses your klout score will stay low. http://klout.com/anthony

Klout doesn’t seem to care if you post often. You could post 100s of tweets a day, if no one reacts to your post then you’re actually diluting/decreasing your klout score. (Eg. http://twitter.com/SumoTheShibaInu – my friend’s dog twitter account has plenty of posts but no RTs or @mentions)

The biggest scorer is the RT and @mentions. A good example of this is my coworker’s twitter account which he hasn’t used in years. He doesn’t have much of a reach with only 42 followers. However, if you post quality content people will Retweet or mention you and thus interact with the content you’ve created. http://twitter.com/dhezl

The next month or so I will attempt to increase my social media influence and see where this experiment goes and will post here again with my findings.