The Next "Facebook Platform" for the Modern Web, and Why Twitter’s Running the Wrong Way
I’ve talked previously about “the web with no login button”, a vision of the Building Block Web that follows the user where they go, knowing who they are and adapting as they move. With the advent of mobile, entire operating systems running on the browser, cloud-based personal information stores and APIs such as Kynetx to […]
Read more...Facebook Kills Connect, Makes App Creation Easier, Simpler
As I’ve been writing Facebook Application Development for Dummies (now available on Amazon for pre-order!), there has been one thing I have been noticing: Despite all the new focus on Facebook’s Graph API, Facebook has still had a lot of conflicting focus on their old, more complicated, Connect APIs, making it a fun thing to […]
Read more...I’m a Dummy! My Next, and Third Book
It’s been 2 years since the release of my second book, FBML Essentials, and everyone keeps asking me when I’m going to write my next. I admit I’m a little addicted – it’s why I write on this blog. I hated writing for others in High School and College, but since I started writing for […]
Read more...Facebook to Launch SideWiki-like Recommendation System for Websites
On Saturday I broke news of a few specific XFBML tags Facebook will be releasing as part of its OpenGraph API, as revealed by their open source Javascript Client libraries. I held back one announcement that I think is almost just as interesting as their Insights for websites, or the SocialBar, which will provide Meebo-like […]
Read more...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...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 Launches Facebook Connect Competitor, @Anywhere
I’ve long talked about the MVC model of the Building Block web. Data Repositories like Amazon Simple Storage, Facebook Data Store, Google Data, and others comprise the Model of this new platform. APIs like the Twitter API, the Facebook server-side APIs, or other REST-type APIs compose the Controllers of this web. Then you have the […]
Read more...Web 3.0: The Building Block Web
Tim O’Reilly is well-known not only for his successful publishing company (which I have written for), but also for his definition of the term, “Web 2.0”, in summary defining the web as a platform, moving from the desktop to the cloud. I’d like to propose we are in the process of taking that one step […]
Read more...FBFoundations Facebook Connect Plugin for WordPress
One of my biggest frustrations in adapting Facebook Connect into WordPress blogging has been the fact that most plugins out there either have too much, or too little incorporated into them. When you add more than one, you end up calling the Facebook Javascript Client libraries more than once, and often reinvent the wheel for […]
Read more...The Open Web – Is it Really What We Think it is?
Yesterday was OneWebDay, a day to celebrate the open web and bring more awareness to technologies. I just wrote about one thing Google is doing to make the web more open, something I strongly support. I want to touch on something Facebook is doing which I don’t think is being fully appreciated. And it’s not what […]
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