Facebook applications are awesome – and a good number of developers and agencies have committed to themselves full time to developing applications for themselves and for clients. We all see huge potential for being able to interact with users on such a personal level, so easily. Relying on other services is a big component of this generation of web applications in general. The ability to...
Late last year I mentioned that Yahoo was coming out with it’s own location management platform. They launched it last week in private beta. At this point – it really is just that, a platform. Very few applications exist. Seth Levine was kind enough to send me an invite. I wrote a quick application using Fire Eagle. Birdwatcher shows recent location updates on a nice pretty map (using...
I made the WhyGoSolo Facebook Application, which just launched. If you join WhyGoSolo, you can have any events you create or sign up for show up on Facebook automatically, so you and your Facebook friends can know what you are up to. We’re planning on adding a lot more functionality to it in the future. Our main focus is bringing what happens on the main site into Facebook. If you...
I’m thinking about starting an open source project, based on a need I see. I’m working on fleshing out the idea a little bit more, and recruiting some local PHP developers I know to help me. I don’t have time for this, but who does? One of the great things about developing third-party applications on Facebook and other platforms is that everything related to user authentication...
Sorry for the week delay… hard to post when you’re in the middle of a mountain (literally). WidgetDevCamp was awesome, thanks to everyone, especially Peter Corbett and Justin Thorp. Here are my slides: | View | Upload your own I gave a presentation about Facebook development, and afterwards they asked to actually see an application being developed, so I did just that. The...
Let’s pretend for a second that the writers weren’t on strike, and we had decent TV on. Watching TV is enjoyable, right? It’s also fun to watch it with others. In college, we’d always get together to watch the latest episode, talk about it, etc. A shared experience is always better than sitting alone on your couch. But nowadays, I come home from work, and by the time...
I’ll be at WidgetDevCamp this weekend.
I’ve planned to talk about developing Facebook applications and how they “work”, with a particular spin on developing widgets. I may also be collaborating with one or two other people on some other topics – we’ll see how that plays out.
I’ll post slides after.
If you are there, say hi.
362 days, 6 hours, 41 minutes. In 362 days, we’re going to have a new president. We’re mired right now with candidates of both parties yammering about their platforms, attacking each other (since when did being called a Muslim get considered an insult?), and telling us what we think is important. But what do you think is important? I was told of a site, On Day One, that asks you just...
I love interactive sites pertaining to TV shows or movies. LOST: talks about it. When will campaigns like this become part of the experience, and not just a promotion for the show? The first one I can remember is for Starship Troopers. They had a great game that replicated the style of the movie and built up a great following people who were excited for the movie months in advance. Too bad the...
Daft Punk – Alive 2007
Wish I was there.