Facebook Launches Application Creation API
One of my biggest frustrations as a Facebook API developer of WordPress plugins has been the need to require my users to go out and create their own application in Facebook for their blog. To do so they had to install a “developer app” on Facebook and know what forms to fill out after they […]
Read more...Twitter Starts the Chatter on API Guidelines
On the Twitter development mailing list today Twitter began discussion on rules developers should abide by when writing applications for the Twitter API. Such terms come on the heels of a much broader Terms of Service launched for the general Twitter user today. I’ve long discussed the need for such guidelines, as many developers are […]
Read more...Facebook Prepares to Compete With Gmail: Launches Messaging API
Facebook is moving too fast this week for me to keep up. On the heels of the Acquisition of Gmail-creator-founded FriendFeed, along with the launch of their new search interface, Facebook just took it one step further today. In an announcement on their blog along with associated documentation on their developers wiki, Facebook released a […]
Read more...FriendFeed Opens Up the Firehose to Developers
FriendFeed seems to be staying one (or two or three) step(s) ahead of Twitter in everything they do. Today FriendFeed released their real-time stream of data in beta to any and all developers wishing to write applications. Unlike Twitter, there is no application necessary, no NDA to sign, and all is controlled by simple OAuth. […]
Read more...With No Notice, Twitter Adds More Limits – Password Trouble Ensues
Twitter is up to their old antics of adding limits again, changing the API, and not telling developers as they do so. This morning Twitter released into production new limits around their verify_credentials() method in the API, only allowing users to verify their usernames and passwords through Twitter applications 15 times per hour. The problem […]
Read more...Social Coding: How to Code Twitter’s OAuth Using Net::OAuth and Perl
For the non-developers in my readership, I’m going to get a little geeky on you here. So you can either tune this one out, or pass it onto your IT staff for use in their applications. I promise much more on the “Social” side here shortly. Or, maybe you’ll learn a little Perl. For those […]
Read more...Oops, Twitter Does it Again
I don’t think Twitter is listening. In fact, I remember a few of them mentioning they don’t read the news or blogs so that it doesn’t affect their work. Perhaps it’s about time they start. Today I blogged over on LouisGray about a cool new change to the e-mail notifications on Twitter where they now […]
Read more...Facebook Developers See 20-50% Drop From URL Change
Facebook developers are reporting 20-50% drops in their Application traffic due to an unannounced deprecation of the old apps.new.facebook.com URL by Facebook. Over the weekend, Facebook appears to have deprecated the apps.new.facebook.com domain, but some developers are reporting that users aren’t recognizing the new domain, apps.facebook.com, causing the drop in traffic. The apps.facebook.com domain is […]
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