Social Media, api 3 January 2008 | 0 Comments
Ah, my dreams will come true one day…. and http://dataportability.org/ is another step closer!
A few initiatives/groups/projects/technologies that I am in favor of, and everyone should check out, embrace, and eventually adopt:
OpenSocial (see my post here)
DataPortability
W3C
Android & the Open Handset Alliance
OpenMoko
Open APIs
XML/RSS/Atom
Tagged in android, api, DataPortability, openmoko, opensocial, standards, w3c
Google, api 30 October 2007 | 3 Comments
Google is unstoppable. This Thursday, November 1, 2007, Google will launch OpenSocial (url goes live on Thursday); a set of API’s that allow developers to interact with ANY social network that chooses to participate. What does this mean? It means that in order to access Orkut, LinkedIn, hi5, Plaxo, and other currently participating social networks, [...]
Tagged in api, del_icio_us, Google, hi5, highly_targeted_advertising, linkedin, opensocial, orkut, plaxo, social_bookmarking, social_networking, social_networks, video_sharing, youtube
Facebook, Social Media, api 1 October 2007 | 4 Comments
Welll, it appears that one month after Facebook asked me, and others, to remove my little cURL ‘hack’ for updating your Facebook Status, Facebook has finally implemented a users.setStatus() method in their API.
I originally posted my code and the ideas surrounding its creation and use on April 20, 2007. Five months later, Facebook decided to [...]
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