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“Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. ” - Kenneth L. Pike

Aviary.com - The Future of the Web?

Aviary.com is a set of image editing tools created in Flash. Launched to the public yesterday and hailed as "the future of SaaS."  I tried pulling up Phoenix, their Photoshop-like tool yesterday but was denied due to high traffic. What's interesting is the business model. Out of the gate Aviary is ...

Facebook Announces 25 fbFund Winners!

Today Facebook announced the 25 fbFund winning companies. The fbFund is a $10M seed fund created by Facebook, Accel Partners, and Founders Fund to help jump start talented developers and entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses on the Facebook platform. Each of the following companies received a $25,000 for their first round ...

Bay Area Facebook Meetup

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

Facebook opens Permissions API to 3rd party applications

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 ...

Weekend Apps

WeekendApps is a full weekend event to get developers and entrepreneurs together to build and release Facebook applications in one weekend. We want to help you build hugely successful Facebook applications that grow virally and reach millions of users. Our goal is to assist entrepreneurs to reach their potential, launch ...

Web Developer’s Field Guide

At some point when developing, you most always hit some type of road block in the development process. When that happens and you forget how to use Google, someone out there has your back. Meet, webdevelopersfieldguide.com, people who searched Google and found the answer to your more than likely FAQ. So ...

Can Myspace Bribe Developers?

Myspace announced their new application developer platform tonight with semi-locked down event in San Francisco They gave everyone on the RSVP list a free Flip Video Camera and a bag full of other shwag. After looking through the developer site, I have some serious concerns with the Myspace platform. For one, ...

OpenSocial is VERY Open.

Google has confirmed that there is no way to authenticate users on non-Google containers, thus allowing spoofing of accounts to occur, and people with the right amount of knowledge can hack OpenSocial to take over others applications. Now, can someone please explain why Google, the world's most successful internet company, with ...

How ’social’ are the networks in OpenSocial?

With developers scrambling for API keys to be the first to launch applications on the new OpenSocial, it seems that Google scrambled as well to get the platform out the door. From my research, it seems that each social network involved will have its own system for sandboxing, regulatory policies, ...

Important Questions to Ask About OpenSocial

A lot of hype surrounds OpenSocial, but a few things may keep it from taking off the way Facebook applications have. #1 - Can it be monetized? If developers can't make money off the applications, then what is the point of developing on the platform? #2 - Is it truly open? Can you communicate ...

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February 27th 2010
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Are You Listening?

[caption id="attachment_99" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Credit: Flickr user 'Tom Lin'"][/caption]Next time you are talking to someone, take notice to how long they wait before answering you. If the person across from you answers immediately, chances are they were putting together their response while you were still talking -- hence, they were ...

Building a Twitter Bot

Meet Jason Thorton. To the people who know Jason, he is a successful entrepreneur in San Francisco who tweets 4-5 times a day. But Jason has a secret, he's not really a human, he's the product of my simple algorithm in PHP. Jason tweets A LOT about the word "love" - ...

Facebook Mobile - did you know?

A lesser known feature of Facebook is Facebook Mobile. I just set up a text message feature that allows me to get text whenever a select group of friends updates their status. This feature has been around for awhile, but I forgot about it since I didn't have an unlimited ...

Aviary.com - The Future of the Web?

Aviary.com is a set of image editing tools created in Flash. Launched to the public yesterday and hailed as "the future of SaaS."  I tried pulling up Phoenix, their Photoshop-like tool yesterday but was denied due to high traffic. What's interesting is the business model. Out of the gate Aviary is ...

Facebook Announces 25 fbFund Winners!

Today Facebook announced the 25 fbFund winning companies. The fbFund is a $10M seed fund created by Facebook, Accel Partners, and Founders Fund to help jump start talented developers and entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses on the Facebook platform. Each of the following companies received a $25,000 for their first round ...

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