For the past few days I’ve been back to my age old habit - coding. This time I’m coding Facebook applications but I’ve found it tricky to catch on. It’s not creating canvas based applications that is hard but creating profile boxes. They require intense use of FBML (Facebook markup language) and API knowledge.

In PHP we can usually use the require command to grab any content but this is not the case for a profile box (apparently). They seem to think it’s a security risk so you have to use the API to PUSH content into the box.

If I can learn how to do these simple little things I think it would be a great way to market new products, services and earn some green paper. I’m thinking of integrating existing content such as audio and video streams into a presentable format on the Facebook page. The possibilities are endless.

Talking of Facebook, the Open Sikh Projects account got disabled. We had over 700 contacts and then suddenly they disabled the account. I can understand why the system must have blocked it but the methods to get them unblocked are rediculous. You have to send an email in and I highly doubt they have a dedicated team that deals with blocked accounts. It’s probably one poor soul who’s having to deal with thousands of unblock requests.