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