Google: You Have the Same Thing as Facebook – Why Not Promote It?
Google is sitting on a gold mine opportunity right now and all I hear is complaining from their employees. Matt Cutts Deactivated his Facebook account and Tweeted about it to tell the story. Chris Messina called Facebook the dreaded “evil” word, and criticized the idea for being decentralized. Frankly, I’m getting tired of it and […]
Read more...How Does One Compete With This Beast? Here’s How:
As you can tell from this blog, my Tweets, and just about the entire blogosphere, the entire web is talking about Facebook making every website on the web a part of its own network. Basically, with a few lines of code copied into your own website you can immediately have access and share to 400 […]
Read more...Facebook Launches OpenGraphProtocol.org: Adds Second Product to the OWFa
Just two years ago at OSCON, Facebook, Google, Myspace, and others all joined forces to create the Open Web Foundation, a sort of GPL-like agreement for platform builders to have a common agreement users could understand. Facebook announced their first support of the OWF agreement in November of 2009 with the launch of the OAuth […]
Read more..."Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You"
I’ve said numerous times that when you put something on the web, you should always assume that data is public, for the world to see. Up until now, Facebook was the exception – Facebook enabled privacy controls, enabling users to, while assuming their data could be public, add a layer of protection and assurance 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...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 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 […]
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