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Even though listservs are so 1990 they still provide good information. Thanks to NITLE's IT listserv I found this Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform.
Does this move by Facebook position it to be the next Google where everything and everyone develops applications and services that allow upstarts and fringe services to piggyback on the success of the giant?
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One of the characteristics of web2.0 applications is having open API's that one can use to mash up applications to produce new ways of using or displaying the data of the original services. For example one can configure your flickr account to post to your blog or you can see the latests tweets on a map of the globe at twittervision.com/. As of late, it seems that the most used services have such integrations available to those off us without the hacking ability or the time to do it by answering a few questions of a wizard.
For example I used Remember the Milk for a while as a todo list but discontinued use because it was one more place to log into and manage. Recently, I came back to "rtm" and realized that it added a ton of features that lets me use the services through other technologies, which make "rtm" more useful than a paper and pencil todo list.
Of the various options for integration here are a few that I am looking at -
I am going to give "rtm" another go based on this new knowledge and let you know how it works.
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I had something interesting happen to me via Twitter over the weekend, that I'm not sure how it works....
I am a regular reader of the Fake Steve Jobs blog, which if you haven't heard of, and have a broad sense of humor regarding Apple, is definitely worth the occasional read.
So there was an article recently disparaging Facebook, where "Fake Steve Jobs" refers to Facebook as "Webkinz for adults". Tim's daughter was showing me Webkinz a few weeks back, so the connectiong definitely clicked for me as soon as I read the article. All of this fuss about Facebook, FSJ was pricking a well deserved pin into the inflated worth of Facebook.
So being a regular user of Facebook, I updated both my Twitter and Facebook status to "FSJ says Facebook = Webkins". Short and to the point, and something that I thought might provoke some thought. This was Friday.
On Saturday, I get an email saying that "Siooma" was now following me on Twitter. I immediately recognized "Siooma" as being associated with the Fake Steve Jobs blog. (You will have to research the meaning of "siooma" for yourself...) The only connection I can make is that somehow my Twitter status with FSJ in the text must have triggered some kind of bot or just someone manually searching for it causing me to be added...
It's not that big of deal, it just took me by surprise and I thought I would share the experience.