Apple Addiction Test
Just took the test
Jonathan, you win this one!
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The Race For Social Network Dominance
Google just anounced this morning Friend Connect, it’s own data portability network. It while require almost no programming knowledge to add social network features to your site, according to google:
Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s Campfire One), any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.
They include api connection to other netwroking platforms, also they add open id to the package. Nice.
Ok so someone else jumped in the wagon, sho would have their services adopted massively? Who knows , but the race is on. I would honestly have Google to handle all of this rather than Facebook.
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Facebook Connect: The next big thing?
Techcrunch released an article today on Facebook Connect. Short description:
It will allow users to “connect” their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any website. Third party websites will be able to implement and offer more features of the Facebook Platform off of Facebook – the same features available to third party applications today on Facebook.
This is huge news, I can’t even start to imagine how huge. If Facebook plays their hand of cards right, they well very well take the web to its next stage, and become the social and identity backbone of the internet. Yes you read that right. They will hold your data, they will hold your picture, they will hold your profile and all other websites will only connect and fetch your profile data off Facebook. Wow. I mean, WOW!
So I guess OpenID will take a huge hit now, maybe? It all depends as I said on how well Facebook plays their hand of cards and on the willingness of users to adopt Facebook Connect.
Personally, I am tired of registering and haven a gazillion accounts all over the net. But at the same time this worsens privacy issues.
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Captcha Gone Wrong
Oh come on, does it really need to come down to this? I had to try about three times until I found all the cats. I feel like I’m in elementary school again!
For today’s homework class, please find all the cats in the picture!
Max is a designer / developer and a full time geek. He loves to design and develop web software, also loves anything that has a battery in it.
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