A Selfish Blog

I’ve just got a recommendation to try the  cincopa plugin for WordPress, so I did.
it works great I don’t have to deal with any encoding, uploading or embedding and i could also view this post using my iPhone and got to see the video!

I found the user interface can be adjusted so it fits humans a little better and the quality on iPhone wasn’t that great but I hear this is all being improved and their team works on this issues.

here’s a sample player and video using their platform. enjoy.

Another great product from Cincopa Send Files. Cincopa video hosting solution for your website.

took me two hours today to figure this one out – how to let my users invite their friend to some Facebook app I’m developing, everything I looked at sent me to the same javascript SDK solution – “just use a little of FBML and you’re all set…”. Well iframe applications in Facebook  don’t support most FBML so a server side solution is needed.

the next code snippet is nothing I wrote myself, it just took me hours to find so I thought I might as well post it here with a link to their page so it pops up higher in Google. I modified the code a little so it works inside my FB connector Class. you can find the original version here.

here is my code:

const FB_API_KEY         = 'kaklhgkajhgkjhgkjdfhgkjdhgkljsdhklsjdhgsk';
const FB_SECRET         = ';kjfdg09uq34t0jqeofpjie0pv34q';
const FB_APPID             = '12121212121212';
const FB_CANVAS_URL     = 'http://apps.facebook.com/app/';
const FB_APP_HOME_URL    = 'http://www.website.com/';
 
function SendNewRequest($to, $typeword, $content, $actionText, $bInvitation = true)
{
$facebook = self::$FB;
 
$bInviteAll = (!$to || $to == "" ? true : false);
$excludeFriends = null;
if (!$bInviteAll){
// Get all friends
$excludeFriends = $facebook->api_client->friends_get();
}else{
// Get all friends with the app
$excludeFriends = $facebook->api_client->friends_getAppUsers();
}
 
$excludeFriendsStr = null;
foreach ($excludeFriends as $userid)
{
$pos = strpos($to, (string)$userid);
if ($pos !== false)
continue;
if ($excludeFriendsStr)
$excludeFriendsStr .= ',';
$excludeFriendsStr .= $userid;
}
 
$params = array();
$params['api_key'] = self::FB_API_KEY;
$params['content'] = $content; // Don't use htmlentities() or urlencode() here
$params['type'] = $typeword;
$params['action'] = self::FB_CANVAS_URL;
$params['actiontext'] = $actionText;
$params['invite'] = ($bInvitation ? 'true' : 'false');
$params['rows'] = '5';
$params['max'] = '20';
$params['exclude_ids'] = $excludeFriendsStr;
$params['sig'] = $facebook->generate_sig($params, self::FB_SECRET);
 
$qstring = null;
foreach ($params as $key => $value)
{
if ($qstring)
$qstring .= '&';
$qstring .= "$key=".urlencode($value);
}
 
$inviteUrl  = 'http://www.facebook.com/multi_friend_selector.php?';
$facebook->redirect($inviteUrl . $qstring);
return true;
}

This code make a redirect to the selector page. I really wanted my “invite friends” button to open a popup for the friend selector but from what I read it is impossible.
if you found out how to do this or know its possible I would love to hear about it.

I’ve always managed to avoid using Pixel Bender even though everybody around me (well not everybody just the super geeks) said it was exactly what I need.
I love the combination of technology and arts and Pixel Bender kind of lets you have fun with both and pretty fast too.
so I’ve been playing with it a little today and finally got this little cool tv noise effect (or kernel*) going.

you can view a demo of this here:
[use mouse horizontal movement for effect intensity.  click anywhere to change video feed].

you can download the kernal here, please feel free to credit me if you’re going to use this on a project.

*word of the day