Category Archives: api

Idea 5: Open Social portal for Facebook

November 5, 2007 – 8:39 am

The Open Social API is just a simple API for accessing basic information in the container, anyone can implement the API.
SO, why not build a wrapper to allow OpenSocial applications to run in Facebook?
All you’d need to do is provide an interface to the Facebook applications that do the same thing… and of course an […]

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Google open social here I come!

November 4, 2007 – 8:32 am

There is a stack of resources available as google rocks into the social aplication arena. Google were always there of course - we’ve been able to build google gadgets for ever.
And lets not forget all of the other platforms we can build widgets for. The field is massive and people are only really beginning […]

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Google Open Social - systems go!

November 3, 2007 – 1:38 am

Google has released Open Social, which I think is quite spectacular - I mean to say you will release on the 5th and release on the 3rd? Are they in the software business? Or is this something they started working on before Facebook had apps and finished ages ago… then decided how long it would […]

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Open social platform… bigger than Ben hur?

November 2, 2007 – 1:04 am

I heard the Google API was coming out soon. But this is way bigger than I was expecting, I was expecting big. But I was expecting iGoogle + Orkut big, not every Social network that doesn’t hold a grudge big… Orkut and Hi5 have massive latin american communities… and pretty modest ‘western’ communities. Bebo is […]

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JavaScript Resources

October 5, 2007 – 8:58 pm

Way back in the first couple of posts of this blog, I thought it would be a fantastic idea to publish JavaScript style guidelines. And it was, but there are many many resources online that I use when I am developing a JavaScript application and it always seems silly to replicate work. But what I […]

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