Driving to Wisconsin in the snow. For each unique and beautiful snowflake I see, I will utter a curse.
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Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 21:39 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Finally, Google has provided a secure way of accessing contact information from a Google account. I for one will be happy to no longer have to hand my password over to a third party to access my account data. It’s also nice to have a standardized way of getting that data that does not depend on screen scraping.
Kudos to Google for releasing this much needed API!
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 @ 18:39 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Oh, it’s on, bitches.
MySpace, now Bebo (and a few others I had never heard of before they made similar announcements). The war of “platform APIs” is kicking into high gear. The average user doesn’t care, and Facebook has a HUGE head start, but it’ll be interesting to see where this goes, and what kinds of changes we will start seeing as all these social networks compete for attention in this game of keeping users and developers interested in their platforms.
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 @ 07:58 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
“It’s not true to say that Facebook is the new AOL, and it’s oversimplification to say that Facebook’s API is the new Blackbird, or the new Rainman. But Facebook is part of the web. Think of the web, of the Internet itself, as water. Proprietary platforms based on the web are ice cubes. They can, for a time, suspend themselves above the web at large. But over time, they only ever melt into the water. And maybe they make it better when they do.”
Some great observations from Anil Dash on the Facebook API.
Bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Friday, September 21, 2007 @ 21:15 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
First draft of the OAuth spec, which aims to provide a standard API for various services to interact with each other in a secure way. So, you wouldn’t be handing over you username and password every time you wanted an app to be able to access your address book, which also means you can limit it’s ability to use the external service it is connecting to. It’s a neat idea, and obviously in the early stages, but we will need this (or something like it) if we ever intend to get over the privacy and security hurdles on the path to portable social networks.
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