Good News! Facebook changed again! So… this is our follow up post in response to the Authentication changes Facebook made to the Canvas/IFrame apps. We created a new index page that takes care of everything for you, and will continue to work with our old Flash setup. See the example here: http://apps.facebook.com/hookfbloaderexample/
Download Source here: http://labs.byhook.com/facebookoauth/FacebookCanvasOAuthExample.zip

Facebook’s Like Button in Flash: A Tale of Broken Dreams and Tortured Souls

It all started so innocently, “Hey, can we implement The Like Button in flash?”. Seemed like a very average and reasonable request. I mean really, how hard could it be? Its all just http requests right? Shouldn’t be an issue… Turns out its like agreeing to step into a ring with Kimbo Slice, assuming that anyone with a name like “Kimbo Slice” couldn’t possibly put up much of a fight.

In the end we found a solution, but it came at a price…
Here is a working example:
http://labs.byhook.com/hookconnect/HookConnect.html

There has been quite an onset of controversy surrounding Facebook as of late. Privacy issues, security issues, leaked IM messages, chats that can be seen by people not involved in the chat, Zynga threatening to leave, and the like. Seems like just the right time to jump in head first and make some wall spamming apps don’t you think? So we figured we would sit down, see how it works, and try to come up with an easy way to allow for flash apps to talk to the all mighty Facebook API/Data… So here goes nothin’!