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
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, [...]
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 [...]
I use Facebook as my ’social network of choice’, and the means for updating friends of my status. The main reason is because most of my friends have no idea what Twitter is, nor would many of them use it. Everyone I know does have a Facebook account though, so it seems only natural that I use the medium which will give my updates the largest audience.
Although I do not use Twitter, I fully support it and love the idea of it.
Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if I could meld Facebook and Twitter. What I envisioned was a one-stop shop for updating my statuses across the internet.