More "Insights" on the Facebook Open Graph API Surface
With Facebook’s F8 Developer’s conference right around the corner, there is a flurry of activity happening as the Facebook team rushes to prepare for many launches at the Conference. While I know more than I am saying, there is some evidence in plain view, open for all that we know for sure will be launched […]
Read more...The Coolest Thing I Saw at Chirp? It Wasn’t the Twitter Platform
Amongst all the amazing things being launched at Twitter’s Chirp developer conference: @anywhere, User Streams, New developer Terms, Ad Platform Announcements, and more, nothing truly got me excited in a way that said, “this is the future”. True, User Streams will save me thousands. @anywhere is very convenient. None of them are “change the world” […]
Read more...Twitter Adds New Terms of Service to Its Developer Platform
There has been a lot of news about Twitter’s new features, @anywhere, a coming social graph API, and their new developer website. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned however is something that gives me great joy. Every single developer that signs up for the platform is asked to agree to a very thorough, new, terms […]
Read more...Twitter Announces Live Social Graph Streams
In a Keynote at Chirp by Ryan Sarver, Project Manager over the Twitter API, he announced a new, full API around live content streaming that just saved me thousands. The new API enables a real-time layer around not just Tweets and search that they’ve enabled in the past, but now direct messages, follows, favorites, and […]
Read more..."Don’t Worry About It – It’s Going to be Awesome, and You’re Gonna Love It"
I’m currently sitting in the audience at Chirp, Twitter’s developer conference where they are anticipated to be revealing their plans for the future and overall strategies from here forward. One of the big announcements so far was from Biz Stone, who boasted that Twitter has over 105 million registered users. The entire premise of all […]
Read more...Twitter’s @anywhere and Why it May Be Too Techie for Their Audience
In just one day, we’ll all be sitting in front of Ev Williams and Biz Stone as they announce Twitter’s new Facebook Connect competitor, @anywhere. This is Twitter’s big statement in the developer ecosystem, stating that they are shifting from a script and backend-focused model of developer integration, to a very front-end, javascript-centered focus that […]
Read more...Twitter, Two Years Later and Nothing Has Changed
Last year, exactly 1 year yesterday in fact, I wrote an article reminding developers, while venting that we were in a constant state of being at Twitter’s mercy. In the last year, Twitter has actually improved a lot in regards to stability – they attribute that to Unicorns. I think it’s because they’ve hired a […]
Read more...What is Your Core?
In a typical Lego set, there is a core set of building blocks that make up the core of the object you are building. My son just got a new Star Wars Tie fighter Lego set. It relies on a few common objects, such as little flat Legos you might see in other sets, but […]
Read more...Getting Me to Share Your Posts
One of the things I like to do on my Twitter account is to share interesting articles around the web that I think would be interesting to my readers. Such articles can be techy, geeky, mainstream, pop-culture, or anything I deem interesting. Based on your retweets, I think you like it. I had someone ask […]
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