Ryan Merket’s Blog

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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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 their startups, and achieve massive […]

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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, developers don’t get to host […]

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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 the smartest engineers, largest IPO, […]

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