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 bi-directional [...]
Tag Archives: OpenSocial
Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh)
Jun 4th – 11pm
Facebook, the USSR, communism, and train tracks
May 31st – 6pm
Low hills closed in on either side as the train eventually crawled on to high, tabletop grasslands creased with snow. Birds flew at window level. I could see lakes of an unreal cobalt blue to the north. The train pulled into a sprawling rail yard: the Kazakh side of the Kazakhstan-China border.
Workers unhitched the cars, [...]
The battle for the future of the social web
May 23rd – 1am
When I was younger, I used to bring over my Super Nintendo games to my friends’ houses and we’d play for hours… that is, if they had an SNES console. If, for some reason, my friend had a Sega system, my games were useless and we had to play something like Sewer Shark. Inevitably less [...]