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add a dynamic profile box to a facebook app - good sample code
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Tags: facebook, fb, application, profile box, fbml
Canter's strategy is to offer SaaS version or Source Code
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Tags: Saas, open source, code
Excellent video tour of Drupal theming in D6
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Since we began tracking Facebook demographics in late May, weekly growth has held steady, usually in the low single-digits on a percentage basis. More importantly, it's fair to say that the company has successfully expanded overseas. With close to 128M users, the share of U.S. users is down to around 30% from 35% in late May: Over the last three...
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Tags: facebook, demographics, users, gender, region, location
Dare makes the argument against inline comments on lifestream feeds, describing why windows live spaces doesn't do this
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Tags: Lifestream, activity feeds, action streams, windows, live spaces
Post links to your shared bookmark account through twitter
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Marc's always perceptive commentary on FB Connect
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Tags: Facebook, Facebook Connect, Canter
Microsoft's entry in the lifestream world - adding "web activities" and "Windows Live Activities" in to Windows Live Spaces
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Tags: Windows, lifestream, live, activities, web activities
Describes exactly the kind of two way distributed commenting system I want for my blog
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Tags: OpenID, DiSo, Comments, Blogs, TypePad Connect
Another social network platform on open source - php
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Tags: open source, cms, matrix, social network, php
To help you get started using the OpenSocial REST and RPC protocols, we have assembled a set of client libraries for PHP, Java, Ruby and Python. Each library enables developers to retrieve profile information and persistent data from supporting containers without having to concern themselves with managing network connections, signing requests, or other lower-level details
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Tags: open social, open source, library, python, php, ruby, java
Now we’re taking that effort a step further by opening up My Yahoo! to apps developed through the Yahoo! Application Platform. Now, developers across the community will have the opportunity to get My Yahoo! users trying out and using their applications using the OpenSocial JavaScript API and Yahoo! Social Rest APIs in the canvas full view and HTML/CSS in the My Yahoo! View.
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Tags: open social, open source, yahoo!, applications
Open source competition to google apps online
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Tags: OpenGoo, open source, google apps, office, online, cloud
Of course, it's dangerous to make continent-wide generalizations, and to be sure, customer adoption and approach does appear to differ from southern Europe (e.g., Italy) versus the Nordics and UK. Nevertheless, here are some of the qualms I picked up in Europe that simply don't get voiced as frequently in North America:
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Tags: enterprise2.0, knowledge management, europe, culture, impact
Drupal's taxonomy system is one of its most powerful features and also one of the more tough things to wrap your head around. Taxonomy can be used to categorize content -- tags that identify what the content is about -- and this can extend to showing
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Tags: taxonomy, drupal, manage, tagging, vocabulary, module, open source
What percentage of the site is actually used for content, as opposed to ads and "goodies"? Great analysis
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Tags: news, design, web, content, user experience, usability
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Sweetcron tutorial - Open Source lifestream platform in PHP
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So, you've heard about Google's free software release of its Gadgets server, and the new 'Open Social API'. And gosh, wouldn't it be nice if you could provide this technology to your users with your favorite free software Content Management System (CMS)? Since the documentation that comes bundled with Google's release will probably give you simultaneous whiplash and vertigo (with a large side of frustration), here's a breakdown of the problem so you'll know what you're up against, how to go about solving the problem, and plenty of free software resources to help you get there.
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Tags: OpenSocial, Tutorial, Free Software Magazine, FSM
Put Facebook profile pages on people's address book contacts - Mac OS X
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Tags: Facebook, Apple, Mac OS X, Address Book
Nice themes for Sweetcron lifestream platform (open source, PHP, MySQL)
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Tags: Sweetcron, lifestream, open source, platform
Wikl for vegan living
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Tags: vegan, veganism, vegetarian, vegetarianism, tips, 101, help, food
Public information from Google that is shared with open source communities working on projects such as OAuth, OpenSocial, OpenID, SAML, etc.
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Tags: OAuth, OpenID, OpenSocial, Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, Federated ID, Usability, Research, Google
Summary of Facebook Connect and reactions
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