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Due to a server-side change, the official Facebook Android SDK (which is in Alpha Status) stopped working yesterday. This issue caused unsuccessful user logins and the browser displayed the message: You do not have permission to open this page.

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Την προηγούμενη εβδομάδα συμμετείχα εκπροσωπώντας την Niobium Labs σε μια πρωτότυπη εκδήλωση, το #opentourism event με οικοδεσπότη τον Υπουργό κ. Παύλο Γερουλάνο και με χαρά διαπίστωσα ότι η πολιτική ηγεσία του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού και Τουρισμού, έχει αντιληφθεί το πρόβλημα και έχει πια ξεκάθαρη online στρατηγική.

Niobium Labs recently joined forces with CERTH to create one of the worlds first image search system based on Yahoo Labs technology, Flickr's image pool for image clustering and CERTH's advance pattern classification technology.

Facebook has changed profile access permissions and has adopted a more ACL approach that will start take effect this Tuesday 1st of June. Everyone of you that have a Facebook application you will roll back to default permissions. The new look and feel the above screenshot that show all this richness of permission granting options. You get the above permission list with the following API call, giving as parameter the array of profile fields and actions you need to access.

Now, we have got a list of Featured Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers. A rich machinery of gold plug-ins that can turn your fast rendering Chrome platform, into a professorial web development tool.

Popular plug-ins like measure it, debugging options like speed testing and xml/json rich formatting. Edit HTML, test your pages on various screen resolutions, improve the performance of your apps and more — all directly from the browser.

Extensions for web developers

Metaio has put together a show video presenting their latest work on the desktop and mobile AR advertising area. AR is definitively here to stay, a fact that puts Reality Advert in the center of the scene.

Stickybits raises  1.6M$ from VC second round. A service pretty similar to microsoft tags, less accurate since it involved 1D bar codes that to be honest I do not understand completely their business model. They charge tha prontings but the also provide free the barcode pattern associated with the information, so anyone can print it on their own expenses on their home printer. It looks that they want to acquire the value of their product catalog database as they grow, this would make better sense.

NewsRack App Demo from Ole Zorn on Vimeo.