We are happy to have Bawls as the official energy drink for the upcoming Facebook Developer Garage NEPA. The kind folks at Bawls are sending up free cases of their hyper-caffeinated, guarana-flavored drinks. Come out to demo Bawl’s brand new guarana-infused root beer called “G33k B33r”! We will also be giving away free bottles of […]

On April 26th, Meezik is bringing the Facebook Developer Garage to Northeast Pennsylvania, hosted at Pepperjam’s headquarters in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Facebook describes the Developer Garage as,
A forum to share ideas with local developers, look for partners on your latest project, see and participate in Facebook App demonstrations, seek technical support, or just network and socialize […]

There’s a trend of recently released films deploying Facebook applications as another channel of advertising. A Facebook application is a strategic and cost-effective way to promote a movie because it engages the audience and is a near perfect platform for implementing a viral effect. Users invite their friends to the application, and those friends invite […]

Meezik will be competing in the 2008 Greater Valley Technology Alliance Business Plan Competition. How this competition works is, contestants write business plans for their ideas, GVTA selects the finalists, and then the finalists pitch their ideas to a judging panel. The incentives for the GVTA Business Plan Competition are $20k in startup capital and […]

My wife absolutely refuses to buy generic products. I asked her why and she claimed that “they’re just different.”
I went grocery shopping alone yesterday, and, with no one around to question my choices, I bought a generic store brand of apple juice instead of the usual Mott’s that we buy.
The ingredients are the same: water, […]

I know a company that equates big with success. The company’s goal is to grow as fast as possible. Take on every possible client, hire new employees like crazy which makes them outgrow their office space every couple of months. Sure, these are signs of a fast growing company. But that growth will inevitably peak. […]

At Meezik, not only do we develop our own viral social applications, but we also do contract work for custom facebook applications. This means that we can make your idea a reality. Send us a description of your application to sales@meezik.com and we will provide a free analysis and proposal within 48 hours.
What makes us […]

Welcome back for the second installment of the Facebook Application Development Tutorial. In this post I will show you how to create a very simple PHP application for Facebook.
This tutorial requires you to have:
#1 - Web space capable of hosting PHP applications.
and
#2 - Copy of the core Facebook API files (found here: http://developers.facebook.com/clientlibs/facebook-platform.tar.gz)
First step […]

So the bubble has finally burst with Facebook application development. It may not be an obvious crash that an average Facebook user would notice, but it surely does send a (positive) bang for the Facebook development community.
Last week, Facebook implemented an “ignore all” feature to application invitations. Application invitations were getting out of control! You […]

As you are already aware, MySpace is opening their platform to API development to keep in pace with the other social networks. But.. Are they too late?
In order to compete, MySpace was forced to implement a Development Platform. The executive staff either overlooked this feature, or did not even bother to consider the idea. […]