Monthly Archives: June 2008

Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh)

Jun 4th – 11pm

And then there were three. Today, Yahoo! announced the public availability of their own Address Book API. Though Plaxo and LinkedIn have been using this API behind the scenes for a short while, today marks the first time the API is available for anyone who registers for an App ID to make use of the [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, DiSo, Life online, Microformats, Technology, Web building | Comments (19)

Parsing the “open” in Facebook’s “fbOpen” platform

Jun 3rd – 11pm

Yesterday, as expected, Facebook revealed the code behind their F8 platform, a little over a year after its launch, offering it under the Common Public Attribution License. I can’t help but notice the glaring addition of Section 15: Network Use and Exhibits A and B to the CPAL license. But I’ll dive into those issues [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Open source, Philosophy, Technology, Web building | Comments (12)