New, Big OpenSocial Announcements Coming Tonight?
According to Mike Arrington (I know, I said I wanted to boycott TechCrunch but it’s just so dang hard to avoid! I’ll stick to boycotting Crunchgear for now.), Google is having another “Campfire One” event tonight. The last Campfire One event they announced OpenSocial. It was the OpenSocial team that announced the event, and the […]
Read more...5 Inspiring Uses for Twitter That Changed the World
I figured after yesterday’s post on Guy Kawasaki’s blog, I’d continue the trend, but this time into Twitter territory. Except this time I’d like to try to truly inspire you. For those unaware with what Twitter is, in a sentence it is a mass communications tool which lets you post the status of what you’re […]
Read more...I’ve Been Guy Kawasaki’d!
Greetings to all of my new subscribers, thanks to a great post I’ve been working on with Guy Kawasaki over on his blog here: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/04/ten-things-you.html The post is about 10 things you didn’t know about Facebook – these are all excerpts that you can find bits and pieces about in “I’m On Facebook–Now What???“, with […]
Read more...SocialOptimize Announces the "We’re Protestant" Facebook App
Yesterday’s announcement of the Catholic vs. Protestant App on Facebook, if you didn’t try to install it, was intended to be just an April Fools joke. I’m proud to announce a new App however which isn’t a joke. I’d like to announce that we’re now launching a new compliment to SocialOptimize‘s “Holy Rolls” line of […]
Read more...Facebook Gives Developers a Way to Combat Spam 2.0 With
Facebook seems to have been on a role lately in adding new FBML tags. They are certainly keeping me busy while I finish up the final phases of “FBML Essentials“. Ironically in short duration after I posted my Spam 2.0 article, Facebook seems, based on a new post to the developers wiki, to be providing […]
Read more...Facebook Launches "" Tag
I swear, this is no joke! Facebook just released a new tag on its developers wiki called, “”. In line with the “” tag (a real tag!), it displays the enclosed content only if it is April Fools day. Such content would be used as such: April Fools!!! It’s not April Fools day, silly!
Read more...SocialOptimize’s "Holy Rolls" Announces the "Catholic vs. Protestant" App
Are you getting tired of the whole, “Pirates vs. Ninjas” or “Zombies vs. Werewolfs” debate? How about joining a real man’s debate! I’m proud to announce the launch of an unprecedented Application that actually has a real purpose in discussion! It goes back to the age-old debate of which religion is right, whose religion is […]
Read more...The Emergence of "Spam 2.0"
My recent blog post on the possible “Facebook Worm” seems to be making an effect in security circles. Within 24 hours I quickly got this e-mail from Zango making sure their name was not associated with it: Hello Jesse, I am writing to you about the above entitled post. I first want to clarify that […]
Read more...Free T-Shirts, Fudruckers at Utah OpenSocial Hackathon
I just wanted to briefly mention that I now have 30 OpenSocial T-Shirts from Google for the Utah side of the West Coast Open Social Hackathon tomorrow night. Also, in addition to that, I hear Bungee Labs will be providing Fudruckers to eat at the event, along with Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Halo 3, and […]
Read more...Yahoo Joins OpenSocial, Google Announces OpenSocial Foundation
Today Yahoo announced that they are joining forces with the OpenSocial platform, and will be joining both Google and MySpace to build “The OpenSocial Foundation”. This new foundation “will seek to ensure that the technology behind OpenSocial remains implementable by all, freely and without restriction, in perpetuity.” It is modeled after the current industry-supported OpenID […]
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