Ryan Merket’s Blog

Around 5 years ago I made a post on my then LiveJournal account about a new website called: Friendster.com. Enjoy:

Just found out about a cool new website…
It’s called Friendster.com — Its really awesome.. because what happens is, when you join you need to specify me as your friend… then you have access to all my […]

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Today I was reading through some startup blogs, and found a link to Fanista.com. See design below:

The first thing that catches my eye about this design are the Featured entertainment section on the right side. After I play with that area for a few seconds I try to figure out what the site is about […]

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Ice cream giant Baskin-Robins created a Facebook event to help promote their 31 cent scoop night. The lucky night is on April 30th, mark those hCal enabled calendars.
I think what is really interesting here is that Baskin-Robbins is utilizing the already existing Facebook functionality to promote their campaign. They didn’t need to go to any […]

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I was on the panel for this month’s Bay Area Facebook Meetup, here is a video:

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OpenSocial API has been proven to be more unpredictable, and actually more decentralized. Though there is one name, there is many different flavors for each container (social network).
For instance, there is custom functions that apps call for each container. How do you possibly port your code from one container to the next if there are […]

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Facebook announced yesterday a new site of APIs they are referring to as “Permissions APIs”. These new APIs will finally give sites such as adonomics.com and developeranalytics.com the needed data to actually have accurate data. Application developers will be able to grant these companies access to their metrics by allowing their applications to call admin.getDailyMetrics.
With […]

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TechCrunch just announced Adobe TV. An Adobe AIR application that allows users to search for content and interact with it. Users can watch shows in 1080p, 720p or 480i resolutions, respectively.
This is a HUGE blow to services such as Hulu, and Joost. As these players were looking to be the first HD compatible streaming video […]

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