Georgie Casey

Taken from Oxegen forum. Considering going on the Saturday myself.

Should have been red carded the scumbag.

I was looking for an iPhone app a while ago to search Irish business phonenumbers and couldn’t find one, so wrote one myself. And while I was waiting for Apple to approve my app, a different phonebook app was released with better user interface! BUT it just searches the goldenpages website so you need a net connection. I scraped the Goldenpages website and stuck it in the app, so no net connectio needed, handy when you quickly need a number.

Check it out here, only e2.39 to buy

Diggbar just release which is a URL shortening service as well with full, do-follow links. Wonder how long it lasts.

Sick of waiting for the facebook ads API? Download my PHP one today. Features include:

• Create ads from PHP script loop. You can modify any paramaters you want and submit 100s of ads an hour but that will prob get your account banned
• Pull info from your DB to submit ads. eg You could pull artist names and submit loads of ringtone ads using each individual artist
• I provide a mysql table of all US cities you can target with Facebook, along with the user count for each city. So you can loop through all these and create targetted ads to every city in the US. eg ‘Meet Atlanta, GA Women’ today targetted at just Atlanta, GA demo. This is sure to improve CTR and lower your CPC.
• Support for proxies

This is the code you use to create ads. #!/usr/local/bin/php
// Put your mysql details in the follwing line
$mysql= new mysqli("localhost","username","password","db");
include("facebook.php");
$facebook = new Facebook();
$facebook->setLogin(”yourfacebookemail”,”yourfbpassword”);
$facebook->getHomeCookie();
$facebook->signIn();
$facebook->getAdsHome();
$facebook->locationtype=”city”;
// The script doesn’t support creating campaings yet so you need to get this from ads Manager. On the create an ad page, the select box at the bottom where you pick your campaign, just go into the HTML source and find the value for the campaign you want to use.
$facebook->campaignid=”campaignid”;
// Not sure if these 2 values make a difference. No harm in setting them right.
$facebook->campaignbudget=”500.00″;
$facebook->dailybudget=”500.00″;

$query1=$mysql->query(”SELECT * FROM us_cities WHERE done=’no’ ORDER BY usercount DESC”);
while ($result1=$query1->fetch_assoc()) {
$insertid=$result1[”id”];
$fbid=$result1[”facebook_id”];
$city=$result1[”city”];
preg_match(”/(.+?), .+?/”,$city,$justcity);
// this uploads image used in ad.
$facebook->uploadFacebookImage(”image.jpg”);
// this actually creates and approves the ad. works like this createAd(ad name in ad manager, ad url without the http://, ad title (keep less than 25), ad body (keep less than 135), country, min age, max age, cpc bid, city id, gender targeted, education targeted) $JUSTCITY[1] has the name of just the city like Atlanta, $city has the state as well eg Atlanta, GA
$facebook->createAd($city,”www.yoururl.com/index.html?id={$insertid}”,”{$justcity[1]} Free Grants”,”Our records show 100s of unclaimed grants issued by Pres. Obama available to {$city} residents. You need to claim now.”,”US”,”21″,”25″,”0.39″,$fbid,”male”,”all”);
$query2=$mysql->query(”UPDATE us_cities SET done=’yes’ WHERE id=’{$insertid}’ LIMIT 1″);
// this is the value of seconds waited before submitting each ad. suggest keep it at 15 unless you want your account banned
sleep(15);
}
?>


Here’s a screenshot of the facebook cities table:

Price is $200. If you want a copy, paypal the cash to filmfind@eircom.net and I’ll email you a copy within a few hours.

Do not buy any gear off globalmediapro, they’re dodgy as fuck. You pay them through IBAN bank transfer which is European, yet goods are shipped from locations all around the world, Singapore, China and Japan. They claim to be 3 or 4 days delivery but it took us 3 weeks. When the goods arrived by courier, we’d to pay nearly double the price in customs to get the stuff which we thought were coming from the EU.

We emailed and phoned to complain but with no response. They’re dodgy, do not deal with them. Loads of people having problems with them as well. And word is they threaten to sue people who complain on forums.

And if Globalmediapro is reading this and thinking of suing, you can find my address by whois-ing this domain. Thanks

They caught him after a while when this gearbox went. 7 cars after him on camera, apparently 25 cars after him in total. What did he do?!? Via Boards.ie

Said I may as well attend one of these conferences and try to ‘network’ a bit in the ‘aul Internet marketing world. Or it could be just an excuse for tax deductible trip to Vegas The conference is on January 11th (Sunday) to January 13th (Tuesday) but I’m flying in the previous Friday, check out Vegas for the weekend. Staying at the conference hotel, the Rio which is off the strip. Anyone else going and want to meet up, shoot me an email georgiecasey at gmail dot the com or twitter

Heading to the big smoke tomorrow for All Blacks game and Cut Copy concert. I’ve a ticket spare for Cut Copy (def not All Blacks), maybe 2, if anyone wants one, cost price or best offer. email georgiecasey at gmail.

I’m not a fan of most Apple stuff, they’re overpriced and the hardware they use is cheap. They do make sexy looking stuff though, I’ll give em that. And they seem to get away with anything and still have their fanboy faggots drooling over them (I’ve experienced this species IRL in their herds at the diggnation filming in London).

Fan of the iPod and iPhone though. Not a fan of iTunes and Quicktime, which are required to update firmware on these two products. Quicktime is possible the worst piece of software I’ve ever used. It fecked up Youtube’s sound on firefox when it installed (with iTunes, which I need) by trying to play all video and sound files. So I went into settings and unchecked them.

Then I needed to update firmware on my Iphone to 2.1, which required an upgrade of iTunes, which required an upgrade to Quicktime, which changed back all my settings without asking and fecked up Firefox again. If Microsoft did this the bloggers would have a field day.