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Google Releases Social Graph API
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on January 31, 2008
Google today announced the release of a new API for graphing social net connections on the web at large. The Social Graph API is a way for developers of social applications to let users easily find data on their social connections across the open web. The information the API returns can be useful in helping users locate and add their friends when starting up at a new social application.It was...
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Social Graph API: One small step for Google, one giant step for the Internet Operating System
via O'Reilly Radar by Tim O'Reilly on January 31, 2008
By Tim O'ReillyGoogle's announcement today of the Social Graph API is a major step in the development of what I've called "the Internet Operating System." In a nutshell, what the Social Graph API does is to lower the barrier to re-use of information that people publish about themselves on the web. It's the next step towards the vision that Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon...
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Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on February 20, 2008
Sometimes being a web-developer is just damn hard. Particularly coding is often responsible for slowing down our workflow, reducing the quality of our work and resulting in sleepless nights with pizza and coffee laying around the laptop. Reason: with a number of incompatibility issues and quite creative rendering engines it sometimes takes too much time to find a workaround for some problem...
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Social News: Can the Digg/Mixx/Buzz Model Hold Up Against FriendFeed and Sphinn?
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on February 25, 2008
The social news space is developing at a mind-boggling pace. Just in the last 48 hours Yahoo! launched its new site Buzz, the increasingly mainstream site Mixx announced more funding and Digg held its first ever town hall meeting. Meanwhile a screenshot of the soon to be aggregated service Tumblr has been leaked, my email inbox is filling up with friend notifications from the $5 million richer...
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Five Extensions You Won't Need with Firefox 3 [Firefox 3]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 19, 2008
Now that Mozilla's locked down Firefox 3's feature set, it's clear the new browser iteration will render some extensions obsolete. Firefox 3 will include functionality out-of-the-box that you could only get with add-ons before. Let's take a look at five extensions you might not need when you switch to Firefox 3. NoSquint: Never have to enlarge the text on that web page with the...
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Please Give Us Your Email Password
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on June 04, 2008
Shared by TiTi "why can't I grant them temporary access to my public email address book without giving out the keys to my email kingdom?"A number of people whose opinions I greatly respect have turned me on to Yelp over the last six months or so. Yelp is a community review site, and a great way to discover cool new places in whatever neighborhood you happen to be in.I've enjoyed using...
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Post to Google Reader
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 05, 2008
You can now add your messages to Google Reader to be seen by your Google friends. To post a note, log-in to Reader and click Your stuff -> Notes to the left. This will open a box where you can type in a note with any thought, Friendfeed/ Twitter-style. To find out who exactly your friends are, check the Friends tab at the Settings page for an overview (or click the Manage Friends links).Next to...
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Semantic Tagging with Faviki
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 25, 2008
Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool that offers something that services like Ma.gnolia, del.icio.us, and Diigo do not - semantic tagging capabilities. What this means is that instead of having users haphazardly entering in tags to describe the links they save, Faviki will suggest tags to be used instead. However, unlike other services, Faviki's suggestions don't just come from a...
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FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations
via FriendFeed Blog by Bret Taylor on June 06, 2008
I was just on a two-week vacation in Peru, and when I got back, there was so much stuff in my FriendFeed that I couldn't sort through it all. I just wanted to see the most interesting stuff I'd missed.That's why I'm happy to announce we just launched a feature that helps you find the best stuff your friends have shared recently without sifting through your entire feed. Underneath...
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An easy way to add new features to Google
via Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO by Matt Cutts on February 25, 2008
Have you ever wanted to add a new feature to Google’s search results? There’s a really nice way to do it right now. If you’re not familiar with this functionality, it’s called a Subscribed Link, and it lets you “create custom search results that users can add to their Google search pages. You can display links to your services for your customers, provide news and status information...
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