Mike, I won't tell you "It's dead simple", as dealing with any outside API can have it's quirks. That being said, a quick search of RIAForge, for both 'Twitter' and 'Facebook', brings up multiple results for ColdFusion and AS3 bits for interoperating with those services. It does not bring up anything for 'MySpace', since so few actually want to touch it (I guess), but MySpace is written on top of ColdFusion, even if it is the ASP/ColdFusion mix that BlueDragon allows. A quick look at their site does show a 'Developers' section, for their 'MySpace Open Platform'.
Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Co-Author of "Learning Ext JS" http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com On 8/31/2009 2:07 AM, Mike Kear wrote: > I have an association with a group of musicians (by that I mean > several hundred bands, not just 5 musicians) who have a need to > automate their web sites. They spend a lot of time updating bios, > entering gig dates, uploading song samples etc, and having to do it > several times to their name web sites, face book, myspace, CD > outlets, radio publicity sites etc. There is a need to automate a > lot of the work. > > For this, I would anticipate needing to send data automatically to the > musicians' Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace accounts amongst other > places. Has anyone done that? Can anyone help me with some > first-hand experience? (I dont need links to Facebook Twitter and > MySpace help resources - i've already done that - i'm interested in > teh "REAL" story - is it as easy as they say for CF to talk to them?) > > (sidenote: I ask this question because I learned a valuable lesson > years ago, the first time i tried to set up online CreditCard > processing on a site - the help files from the Australian Commonwealth > Bank made it all look a piece of cake, about an hour's work at most, > and not very hard work at that. When i actually came to do the work > though, the alarm bells rang when i phoned up to set up the service, > I had to pay $385 for them to tell me that "ColdFusion is only a minor > technology and we don't support it". The project went downhill from > there, getting harder every time i asked a question. It's not like > that nowadays but i had learned a valuable lesson. So I always look > for the 'gotcha' on these things now. I want to see if anyone has > actually done it or if they're only going by the optimistic spin in > the help docs) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:325873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
