Archive for the “Facebook Applications”
Friday, July 4th, 2008
Facebook has opened up early registration for their developer event, f8.
The f8 ‘08 sessions cover three different tracks with four sessions per track. These are actually pretty interesting sounding sessions. Early bird registration is only 150 dollars, to learn more about sessions and registration costs visit the f8 registration page.
This is a one day event [...]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
During Widgetwebexpo, I noticed that there was alot of discussion about paid spread of widgets and almost none about organic spread of widgets. This caused me to change my presentation. There were companies represented there and widget teams that I felt could really benefit from some simple techniques of how to spread a gadget. So [...]
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
WidgetWebExpo is coming up, but don’t just go there because you want to see me, there are other people too :) …
Look for speakers from comScore and Forrester Research, as well as from Nokia, Motorola, Gigya, Clearspring, Sprout (my Hawaiian neighbors), MediaForge and more.
And let’s not forget widgets are like a start-up candyland, so naturally there are a few venture [...]
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Google Apps Engine
Some quick answers to what Google Apps Engine offers, and why you might want to care about it.
A few months ago, Joyent (and Dell, and Facebook) announced free hosting (for a year) to budding application developers. These free servers were designed to scale and help developers who had applications which “took off” in [...]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
By some miracle I was awake when this conference began at 8AM (ouch), and I was impressed by the keynote. I am happy I made it to see it, I was thinking of skipping it.
Keynote Speech
The keynote, as I said was pretty good. In it, Google products were highlighted, but the real crowd pleaser was when [...]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Hi, this is just an open letter to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask spam teams.
I will be speaking in depth about SEO and widgets at a couple of upcoming conferences and highlighting some of the more “dangerous” behaviors that can lead to spam trouble within widgets.
I have sent an email to Matt Cutts and I hope he sees it [...]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
The gadget/widget world is still young, and people are starting to “get it”, there is clearly a future. The core skill set of anyone wanting to be in gadgets is Javascript/Ajax, HTML, and PHP. In addition to those skills, micro design skills and designers able to minimize file sizes are useful as well, but what’s [...]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Ivan Pope, the founder of Sniperoo is presenting the WidgetWebExpo in New York on June 16th and 17th. This conference is his American version of the Widgety Goodness conference that he ran in the UK.
Except this is bigger. Way bigger.
I will be participating with this conference in a few ways, and can’t give out concrete [...]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
This is the second in a series of articles about the top widget and gadget platforms. I asked the same specific questions about each platforms usefulness to developers, advertisers, and search marketers. I will also highlight my personal experiences with each platform and provide my own review.
Dapper
From their “About page”…
“Dapper aims to make it easy [...]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
This is the first in a series of articles about the top widget and gadget platforms. I asked the same specific questions about each platforms usefulness to developers, advertisers, and search marketers. I will also highlight my personal experiences with each platform and provide my own review.
Widgetbox
From their “about” page…
Widgetbox™ helps people express, [...]
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