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Memo to API Service Providers

This is a followup and expansion to a blog entry I wrote in October 2007, titled "Memo to OAuth Service Providers". Recently, I've been working with a host of companies with open APIs built specifically for 3rd parties to build on. Call them mashups companies, platform companies, or just plain old smart companies. But if you are contemplating creating an API for your new online service, I have some suggestions on making your API offerings a success. Use Building Blocks If at all possible,
Informacja: 2008-04-10

Giving up on Work e-mail - Status Report on Week 7

Phew! What a week!! One of the worst I have had in a long while with lots and lots of things happening in multiple various fronts, both at work and personal wise, including plenty of hectic activity all around. So busy that, as you may have noticed, I missed out, last Friday, putting together the weekly progress report on giving up e-mail. Basically, I just didn
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What's happening at OpenSocial

What's happening at OpenSocial Something really quite strange is happening over at OpenSocial. Here's my reading of it. It started as Google's reaction to Facebook. They already had a gadget spec aimed at iGoogle and wanted to compete with Facebook. But Orkut and iGoogle weren't getting the publicity and traction that Facebook were getting so they played the politics card and turned it into The World vs Facebook in the hope of creating a critical mass of App developers and Container developer
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IBM's Bluehouse: a human hub?

Even after 42 years in IT, I still tend to forget that projects are always at their most attractive before they're implemented. A good idea captivates and it's easy to get carried away with enthusiasm, temporarily forgetting that there's a whole lot of hard work in moving from idea to reality. In the case of an IT product or service, the hurdles are not just technical. You have inconvenient things like channels to market and user acceptance to consider. All this flooded into my mind followin
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MySpace Music - 5 Winners & 5 Losers

The devil is in the unrevealed and perhaps even un-negotiated details of the just announced MySpace Music joint venture with the major labels. But already some clear winners and looers are already emerging. WINNERS: MySpace - Users will stay on the site and viewing ads longer and music adds a new revenue stream. SonyBMG, Universal, and WMG - They get to sell stuff where the fans already are. Facebook & Other Social Networkers - This deal is not exclusive and talks with labels just got ea
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Imeem opens platform, OpenSocial Support to come later

  2008 goes along and more platforms pop out everywhere. this time is the turn for Imeem, the services who could be seen as homologous to ilike, last.fm and to a degree to services like deezer and RadioBlogClub. Music Widgets are a dime a dozen and so are Music Widget-apps and social apps. but Imeem brand is strong enough to surpass most other services not listed here and got the content to make it work. So now you will be able to develop your own music widgets, and widget-apps with th
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Open Social, Open Web, Open

Video in French Patrick Chanezon knows what he
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This Sunday (6th April): OpenSocial Hackathon in London

By Dan Peterson, Product Manager On the heels of hi5's OpenSocial launch, this Sunday, the 6th of April, BT is hosting an OpenSocial Hackathon at BT Centre in London. This is an ideal opportunity to get started building apps with OpenSocial, or come and get a hand with an app you've already built. In addition, you'll be able to talk with engineers from Hyves, MySpace, Netlog, studiVZ, XING, and Google. The event will kick off at 11:00am, though doors will open at 10:00am with a light breakfast
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I am in London this weekend!

Tomorrow morning at 8:02 my train to London is leaving Aachen. If you are in London this weekend maybe there is a chance to meetup. Here is my schedule: Saturday, April 5th 11:00 AM arrival at St. Pancras 12:00 trying my luck to get into Over The Air at Imperial College rest of the day hopefully there, no idea about the evening yet but something will work out I guess. Sunday, April 6th 10am OpenSocial Hackathon starts, I might pop in there and see what
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First speakers for WidgetWebExpo

Really happy to announce a first bunch of speakers for WidgetWebExpo in New York. I'm chasing down my favourite widget themes here, with some great speakers. This stuff is important - things are moving very fast in the widgetsphere - I think these speakers will bring some clarity and some questions to the mix. The conversation continues with more to come over the next few weeks. You can book now at the WWE site as a discounted early bird. Show us the money! One of the key questions at any wid
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Blogging To Death, Facebook Chat Looms, Twitter Tools, Standford VC Funding, Fun Mobile Video & Photo Apps & Social API Clash

Photo of the Week: Spring is here and baseball is back as I snapped this photo of the Wrigley Field "W" flag while in Chicago this past weekend. Baseball is a lot like blogging (as I explained awhile back). SOMEWHAT FRANK Weekly Tidbits: 4.6.2008 Clash of the APIs: Social Web Traffic Jam Profy looks at some of the issues that arise from having open social APIs. Seesmic Acquires Popular Twitter AIR Client Twhirl Video/chat startup Seesmic has acquired Twhirl, a popular application that allow
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Open Social Rocks

The Google Open Social event on Sunday was great. Steve and I are excited about creating some interesting mobile applications that make use of the API. The REST part of the API isn't finished yet so there's nothing to code against at the moment but the shear scale of the potential audience is mind boggling. We had quick presentations from many of the European social networking partners (containers in Open Social parlance) and I was surprised at the numbers of users and page hits these networks
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Dimdim: A good, free, open source Webex competitor (invites!)

Since I first wrote about it in September, I've been eagerly awaiting the free, open-source Dimdim, a direct competitor to the arrogant old commercial applications Webex and GoToMeeting, as well as upstarts such as Vyew and Webhuddle. I finally got a demo of this important new application, which goes into public beta this week. We have exclusive invitations to the closed beta right now if you want to jump in ahead of everyone...read to the end of the story for access. When Josh and I firs
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Google Cloud Now on Tap for Web Developers

Google, with its new Application Engine product, has taken aim squarely at the web services market
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Google, Grids and great expectations

Google has finally unveiled its widely expected Amazon lookalike, as reported here on O'Reilly Radar among others (Link via Techdirt). Tonight at their second CampFireOne Google Code is announcing App Engine, a hosted platform for web developers. The actual service will launch later tonight in a closed Beta. 10,000 developers will be granted access on a first come, first serve basis. It's about time that developers get access to Google's platform! We've been hearing about Google's server
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The Daily Poll: Should Google Have Pulled HuddleChat?

As you may have heard, there is currently quite a controversy brewing over Google pulling down HuddleChat, a new application built on App Engine. Mark, Sean, and I played with the chat application briefly the other night to sample Google
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Three Semantic Web talks at JavaOne 2008

Following on the success last year, JavaOne 2008 has lined up three talks on the Semantic Web, a 200% increase. The program should be an excellent way for Java enthusiasts to get a feel for how the Semantic Web is getting used in real application making money for real start ups, how to develop such apps in Java, how to build open social networks that bridge the social networking data silos, and with the help of Dean Allemang cover some theoretical grounds from a practical perspective . To help
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