Facebook is one of those Web phenomena that impress everyone with numbers. To cite some: about 250 million users are on Facebook, and together they spend more than 5 billion minutes on Facebook… every day. These numbers suggest that we should start thinking about how to use Facebook for blogging or vice versa.
We did some research to find out how the integration of Facebook with WordPress and vice versa works, or — in other words — how you can present your WordPress blog on Facebook or use the functionality of Facebook on your WordPress-powered blog. Both of these can be achieved with a set of WordPress plug-ins, a couple of which we’ll present here in detail.
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Web dev, Wordpress
facebook, FBML, Integrate, Wordpress
Popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, Dojo and YUI can be great for accomplishing common JavaScript tasks. These libraries provide many functions, whether the matter is related to events or effects or AJAX. And if one of these libraries can’t do the job, a plug-in probably exists that can.
Such flexibility is great but sometimes comes with a penalty (the size of JavaScript files being one of them). Although adopting a well-known JavaScript library is usually a wise decision, you may want to perform a task that can be accomplished by a more lightweight library dedicated exclusively to that task or that is not supported by the more popular JavaScript libraries.
Below, we present 40 stand-alone JavaScript libraries that serve specific purposes. These are not all the ones out there, but every Web designer or developer will find something helpful here.
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Web dev
facebook, FBML, JavaScript, Libraries, Useful
Social networking websites play a big part in most peoples lives these days. They play an even bigger part in the lives of web designers/developers. So these websites are a good place to get inspiration.
As an amateur developer this may become a problem, if you see a site like Facebook with a nieve view of javascript it would be very hard to mimic the effects going on there. Some of them are really quite amazing. However with the fairly recent surge in popularity of javascript libraries it has become very easy for us to pull of brilliant effects.
So here’s a short list of a few tutorials on how to mimic the effects seen on social networking websites using libraries such as  jQuery, Mootools and Prototype.
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Web dev
FBML, JavaScript, Social Networking, Tutorials
