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How Facebook (probably) implements SMS threads

A lot of web applications provides you the ability to receive or post updates using SMS (text messages). Twitter is the posterboy of such applications. But the feature that distinguishes Facebook SMS updates from any other service is that you can actually reply to individual messages and your message then becomes a part of the [...]

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Embedding flash object in Facebook Apps (FBML)

Yesterday I was trying to include a flash object in a facebook app using FBML fb:swf tag. The flash object needed to change the url of the page it was running on on a particular event. But since facebook prevents direct script access from flash, this could not be done. Here is a simple workaround: [...]

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