Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
It's interesting to read the interplay between Scoble and Andreesen from yesterday about how Google's new Friend Connect stacks up against Ning and, by extension, other build-your-own social networks.
If I actually understand Friend Connect correctly, and I probably don't, it's not really designed to replace the creation of social ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The debate for what determines "influence" among online content creators has been raging for years.
Scoble is right when he says all bloggers matter. Chris Brennan, who publicized the Kryptonite lock security flaw -- was on no "influencer" list -- yet his content forced Kryptonite to recall millions of dollars ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
The two most common pieces of advice you'll hear about developing a Facebook app are probably:
Viral ideas are like half-cooked spaghetti; some of the stick to the wall, but you have to throw a bunch of noodles to find out which
Launch you app before it's "finished," and develop it over ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
No, you're not going to be able to download your MySpace contacts into your address book, but according to Reuters MySpace is going to allow its users to display profile information on other sites.
It's step two, along with open social, in pressuring the "walled gardens" of the internet to ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Facebook recently announced more details about their upcoming profile changes, which include some massive overhaul to the visual interface as well as some significant changes to infrastructure for app developers.
Teresa wrote earlier about what these changes might mean for developers. Now that we have some more detailed information, I think ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I ran across a post by Macteens Editor in Chief Daniel Hollister that explains, quite well, what killer functionality Twitter is missing. He's right in in a lot of ways - Twitter is very bare bones and it doesn't provide even the kind of functionality you find in other microblogging ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
When we build Facebook applications we always start with a spec.
A spec is a document that details the complete application user flow and provides the technical details necessary to put together a functional back end and stay with Facebook's ever-morphing application terms of service. Basically it's like a blueprint ...
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