For performance reasons, we are only displaying the first two to three likes and comments, just like Facebook does on their own pages. If you click “View All” then you will be taken to a full Facebook page for that status update that shows you all of the comments.

Please note that Facebook only exposes your past status history to a certain point. It is a function of both the number of status updates as well as how long ago they were. Users that post a high volume of status updates won’t be able to go as far back in time as users with less status updates. Unfortunately, this is a limit of Facebook and there is nothing we can do about it.

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Now that we have rolled out banner ads on our My Info and Welcome Tab applications (to page admins only, not to viewers of the pages), we have a few cents a day coming in to help us pay the annual fee for an SSL certificate. So we are now supporting SSL throughout all of our Facebook applications. This means My Greetings, My Places, and My Status also have full SSL support.

This means you can turn on Facebook’s secure browsing preference and seamlessly use our Facebook apps without having to switch out of secure mode. While none of our apps send any sensitive data, it was annoying to our users to have to switch back and forth between secure and unsecured modes.

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Here’s a full list of the enhancements:

• Moved the Twitter Connect logic out of the main My Status page as this was sometimes causing problems for folks just wanting to view their Facebook status history and not connect to Twitter.
• Now displays your Facebook and Twitter status and the update status form on every page, not just the home page. This makes it much more convenient for Twitter users.
• Added Retweet and Reply features to the Twitter pages. You will need to have Javascript turned on in your browser, but its just a few lines of code.
• Added a dynamic character counter that shows you how long your status message is as you type. It also shows a reminder of Twitter’s 140 character limit (not including a URL) and Facebook’s 255 character limit. This also requires Javascript, but its only 2 lines of code.
• Added a hidden feature to let you view your Facebook Status starting with the oldest posts first. Just use this URL and you’ll see the oldest status updates that Facebook is still storing on the first page. http://apps.facebook.com/my-status/?sort=oldest. The navigation links now say “Next Page” and “Previous Page” to avoid confusion, depending on your sort order.

I hope you enjoy the enhancements and as always, please let me know if you run into any problems by emailing webmaster at xtremelysocial dot com.

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As always, if you run into any problems, please let us know by emailing tim at xtremelysocial dot com.

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Facebook changed the way applications work and for brand new users we have to now specifically ask you to be able to read your status and update it. That’s great from a privacy perspective, but it caused problems with new users not being able to see their status history. Existing users were “grandfathered” by Facebook, so if you don’t see a link to re-authorize My Status on Facebook, then you are all set.

Also two days ago Twitter changed the way you have to authorize us to read your Twitter status updates and other private timelines. If you want to view and update your Twitter status, you will need to click the Authorize Twitter link on the main My Status home page to allow us to do so on your behalf. Ultimately, this new method is better because we don’t have to send your user ID and password to Twitter. Once you authorize it, Twitter knows who you are and that My Status is allowed to view and update your status.

In addition, we added the ability to view your Twitter favorites. This was quite easy to do and hopefully its useful to everyone.

Thanks to all you great users of My Status out there, we now have about 78,000 monthly active users! This is now our most popular Facebook application and as a result I will be spending more time on enhancing it.

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Look for the new My Status icon on your publisher. If you don’t see it, then click the drop-down arrow in the publisher and you should be able to select it. What’s nice is that after you use My Status to update your status, the icon will be visible for more easily selecting it the next time.

Note that if you haven’t already set up your Twitter User ID and Password, you’ll need to do that from the main My Status home page. Facebook won’t let us collect a password in the publisher, which I suppose is a good thing. So you’ll need to configure your Twitter credentials first and then you can use the Publisher. I’ve provided a link in the publisher to make it easy.

As always, please let us know if you run into any issues. Please use the My Status About/Support Page or you can use my email address which is on the XtremelySocial.com About Us page.

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The net of the announcement is that users will no longer be able to have any custom profile boxes on their Wall or Info tab by early January. The only current functionality that will be supported is the currently available full-page custom tabs. However, these custom application tabs will shrink from 760 pixels wide to 520 pixels wide.

I do like the fact that Facebook is now sharing their roadmap ahead of time. Previously, they would simply make massive changes to the site without any real warning. Users would get miffed and complain like crazy. So this is a step in the right direction. However, they still aren’t really explaining very well the reasoning for the changes.

Without getting too “preachy”, I think removing custom profile boxes from user’s Facebook Profiles is silly. They’ve always placed very strict limitations on the number of them, where they appeared, and what could go in them. All those rules were annoying to users and developers, but at least they kept Facebook from looking like a “pimped out” MySpace profile. However, I see no legitimate reason to remove user’s ability to place small boxes of information on their Wall and Info tabs.

Facebook offers up “custom tabs” as an alternative, but we’ve always had custom tabs. My Info fully supports them and they are nice when you want to display a TON of information, but they don’t replace the need to show small bits of information to users on your main profile. This is going to hide most custom information from users unless they take the time to click through each of your custom tabs on your profile.

Also, let’s not forget that the custom profile tabs are getting smaller by about 200 pixels in width. For most people, this won’t be a huge issue, but if you have very large images or a site laid out with multiple columns of specific widths, you will need to adjust your layout.

One direction that I am considering personally, is providing the capability to have a single custom tab that displays information from all of my XtremelySocial Facebook applications. This would allow custom text from My Info combined with your recent Facebook status updates from My Status and even recent gifts given and received from My Greetings. Does this sound like a good idea? Please share your comments and ideas on this.

Here is an exact excerpt from Facebook’s developer site regarding profiles:

Description

Going forward (in the short term) application tabs will be the only way applications can integrate into profiles and Facebook Pages. We will remove profile boxes, application info sections, and the Boxes tab. We are exploring additional ways to enable developers to integrate into profiles and Pages.

Estimated Timing
Early 2010

Details
Application tabs will be the only way to integrate applications into profiles and Pages. Application tabs will shrink from 760 pixels wide (today) to 520* pixels wide to accommodate a slightly revised design. Boxes, info sections, and the Boxes tab will be removed in the near future.

In the longer term we are evaluating a number of new and interesting ways for you to help users express connections to your applications as a part of their identity. You can expect to see some of this thought emerge in future iterations of the profile.

*Note: We previously stated that profile tabs would be shrinking to 510 pixels. Our latest designs indicate they will instead be 520 pixels. We’ll keep this page updated with the latest information.

FAQs

Where will users’ profile boxes go?
Profile boxes will not exist in the near future. Application tabs will be the only way developers can integrate into the profile. If integrations on the profile are an important part of your application, we encourage you to focus development and transition to application tabs.

Will you offer an “Add Profile Tab” button, like some of the other buttons you’ve released?
Yes, we’re hoping to create something like this — most likely in early 2010.

Here is a link to the original article.

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In addition, we’ve created a “See All” link on the smaller My Status profile box on your Wall that let’s your friends click through to see all of your Facebook status history. You do not need to have the custom My Status tab setup for this to work.

Another enhancement that we made was to allow you to delete your current Twitter status as well. Please note that Facebook and Twitter handle things differently. Clearing your Facebook status still leaves that status update in history, but removes it from the top of your Wall. Deleting your Twitter status actually removes that status update from history and your current Twitter status changes to your previous status update.

Lastly, we resolved an issue where certain characters in your status looked strange when stored in Facebook. For example, quote symbols (“) and some other symbols were converted to a code like ". Now the symbols should display properly in your status.

If you have suggestions for further enhancements, please post a comment here or in our My Status Discussion Forum on Facebook. Thanks!

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1. Clear Your Status — You can now clear your Facebook status right from the main My Status page.

2. Better Layout

• Blank status updates or status updates that just say “is” (throwback to when that defaulted into the status update field) are now excluded from the history
• Increased font size for the status message and changed the date/time to a small gray font. This provides a cleaner layout for the status history.
• Changed action message to “What’s on your mind?” to match the question that Facebook now asks.
• Removed the default “is” in the status message since Facebook has changed how they display status updates.
• Changed the “status updated” messages to display in a gray box to visually offset them from the yellow current status boxes.

3. Optionally Update only Twitter Status — Now you can uncheck a box to exclude updating your Facebook update. This was done to allow you to update only your Twitter status if you so desire.

4. Experimental Functions for Power Users

• You can now manually specify ?count=number, to display more or less status history updates per page. eg: http://apps.facebook.com/my-status/?count=40 to display 40 li8nes per page rather than the default 20 lines.
• You can now manually specify a search keyword to search your status history. Eg. http://apps.facebook.com/my-status/?search=football. To specify more than one keyword, separate them with %20, which represents a space. Eg. http://apps.facebook.com/my-status/?search=football%20game

Thanks to Rachele K for providing some of these suggested updates!

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I’m now toying with the idea of branding my apps with “XS”, like “XS My Status”. I hate to have to do that, but I do need some way to distinguish the apps so that users can trust them. Or I could just wait until enough people report the rogue app and it gets shut down. What do you all think I should do?

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2. Now allow paging back and forth through your history

The only limit on how much history you can view is based on how far back Facebook stores it. For me, I have history all the way back to August 2008.

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We plan to add even more Facebook functionality and also add similar features for Twitter, MySpace, and other social networking sites.

XtremelySocial.com is owned by Tim Nicholson and builds socially-connected applications and websites to keep you connected to the people that matter most in your life. This site encompasses all of our internet projects, such as our various Facebook applications and websites.

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