It’s Time to Free the Twitter Client
Dave Winer wants a programmable Twitter client. I think it’s a great idea. It’s something the browser has had for quite awhile now via extensions, frameworks, and plugins. Up until this point Twitter clients have been closed systems that can’t really be extended in any way. Loic Lemeur thinks he has the answer with the […]
Read more...Want to Learn How to Write Facebook Apps? Now’s Your Chance
On Thursday morning I’m doing a free webcast for Safari Books Online (moderated by OReilly’s Laurel Ackerman) in which I’m going to go into further detail than I have before on how to get started building Facebook apps. I’ll take you from start to finish, focusing this time on more hands-on coding, and less introduction […]
Read more...Paypal Pays Off With Paypal X Innovate Conference
Paypal has spent awhile now planning a conference for developers which they would be able to announce their new Paypal X developer platform for flexible payments. I’ve talked to Sudha Jamthe, in charge of many of their social media promotion efforts for awhile now, and I know they’ve really been looking forward to this event. […]
Read more...Paypal X Innovate
I’ve been invited by Paypal to come out to San Francisco and participate in the Paypal X Innovate conference on Tuesday and Wednesday. I’ll be in San Francisco starting tomorrow morning. I’d love to meet you! If you’re going to be at the conference, or in the San Francisco area, let me know and we […]
Read more...It’s About Technology That Creates Community
I’ve been rambling on Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook tonight about the differences in how Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed’s founders participate in each community. Look at Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Fan Page. Notice how he basically talks at the community? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a comment by him with his followers (perhaps part of 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...Learn More About Facebook With Upcoming WebCasts
I’ve been invited to do 2 WebCasts in the next 2 weeks that I think you might be interested in. As always I’ll try to post my slides on SlideShare if it makes sense to do so. I really like an interactive presentation so most of the time my slides don’t make sense. The first […]
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...What Would You Like To Learn About Social Web Development?
One of my strongest expertise is developing web apps that utilize Social APIs and technologies. My website, SocialToo is built all around these. I’ve written a book on the subject, and reviewed others. I’ve blogged about it, and written many apps myself, and consulted for many others. I wrote one of the first howtos on […]
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