Tag: API

Retrieve Facebook page status with no authenticating or permissions issues

If you’re just looking to read the ‘Stream’ or ‘Statuses’ of a Facebook fan page (not a normal Profile page) it can be done very easily. Due to all Fan Pages being public (their are 2 settings: published or unpublished), as long as the Fan page is published then you [...]

Google Maps and Charts: Visited Countries/States

I found a nifty little Google Maps implementation that enables you to mark which countries you’ve visited from Douwe Osinga’s blog
I clearly need to get out more. A lot more.
visited 4 states (1.77%)

The problem with using the Google Maps API for UK addresses

I love the Google Maps API. Except when using it for UK based addresses. There is a big problem with any app created using the Google Maps API – UK postcodes will NOT be processed, worse still, they return errors.
To give some background on the issue, The Royal Mail own [...]