I may be branded as a heretic or just plain ignorant, but is the flood of all things Twitter setting us up for a crash? Let me set this up right first. I have been one of those few people calling for Twitter to become infrastructure. I have even built an application, YackTrack.com, partially based… Read More Is Our Twitter Myopia Setting Up A Crash?
Yeah, I know that is a really sensationalist and possibly link-bait headline, but I am somewhat serious in my thinking. Twitter announced changes to their reply functionality, and the blogosphere went nuts. ReadWriteWeb has an interesting piece on the announcement, with their main concern being discovery: While recommendations are interesting, I’d like to use my… Read More Twitter Needs To Ignore The User
Image via CrunchBase As everyone has stated over the past day, Facebook is making a huge move with their Open Stream API. You can read the announcement on the developer blog. Here is the big tease: Today we are excited to announce an important step toward greater openness through Facebook Platform. For the first time,… Read More Facebook Teasing Us With Open
Twitter has obviously decided that the people who made their service popular are not that important to them. For quite some time, Twitter seemed to be catering to developers with a fairly good API that many used to build third party clients. However, they have continued to limit what the developers can do, with the… Read More Twitter Biting The Hand That Feeds It
When you are on the internet, acronyms rule. If you frequent some of the social media sites, the acronyms become more prevalent. More importantly, the acronyms become the backbone of some of your favorite sites. Some of the acronyms that you will see are JSON, RSS, and Atom. These things are important because they are… Read More API Data Formats You Need To Know
Recently, we have seen the public release of Google FriendConnect and Facebook Connect. As a result of this, there is a massive land grab on all blogs. Which widget are you installing? Some people say you should install the Facebook widget because it basically opens things up to the whole social network. Others say that… Read More Blog Community Widgets Need to Work Together
I use FriendFeed every day, and I check in every hour or so to see what is going on. In the blogosphere, or at least the part that I listen to, Friday seems to be “post on FriendFeed day”. I have tried to avoid this kind of topic, but there are several things I would… Read More FriendFeed Fixes I Do Not Want To Beg For
Security in web applications always seems to be an addition that the engineers will “get to later”. Sure they all have a secure login and password, but something like OpenID or a way to integrate with third party applications definitely comes in the later stages. This was evident with popular microblogging site Twitter. However, we… Read More Web Application Integration With OAuth
I have been really busy lately, but it is a good busy. I was contacted earlier this week by Louis Gray to write a guest post on his blog. WOW. For those of you who read this blog and do not know who he is, Louis Gray is one of the hottest “non A-List’ blogs… Read More Now Showing on LouisGray.com, Me!
By now you may have heard that Tweeterboard has shut down their service. The reasoning from Gene Smith was: I realized that I no longer have the time, energy, interest or technical abilities to maintain it. So I’m shutting it down. As the developer of YackTrack, I understand the difficulties of developing on top of… Read More Is Tweeterboard the first of many?
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