api | Kris Smith has read these articles about "api" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "api" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpShake-Up, then Break-Up- November 5, 2007 With Charles Prince resigning as chairman and chief executive of Citigroup and the bank poised to announce a write-off of at least $8 billion more on dud mortgage securities, the question now is, How will new leaders break up the financial supermarket that former chairman and C.E.O. Sanford I. Weill built, and how soonCitigroup, the nation's biggest bank by assets, said over the weekend that Robert E. Rubin would step in as chairman and Sir Win Bischoff would move over from Europe to act as...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/news/~3/180035427/Citigroup-Shake-Up-then-Break-Up Sync is the New Pink- November 5, 2007 Whenever Amy tries to explain fashion to me, she says something like orange is the new pink. I'm not color blind, but I never really understand this partly because I don't really like pink (or fashion.) Ok, ok I get the metaphor. I love the word synchronization. Early Lotus Notes users (and database geeks) will prefer replication which I did until I saw Blade Runner for the first time. So synchronization or sync (not synch) is my preferred word. The construct is the same. There was a...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeldThoughts/~3/179878437/sync_is_the_new.html Microsoft Bloggers on OpenSocial- November 4, 2007 If you are paying attention to the Google OpenSocial thing, I have two great blog posts for you. The first is for the business people and users that are trying to get their mind around the implications of OpenSocial to Facebook. Don Dodge who I've been friends with for a while has an outstanding post up titled 50M Facebook users don't care about OpenSocial APIs. Don unabashedly comes from the Microsoft side of the world (which is teamed up with Facebook) but cuts to the user dynamics of...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeldThoughts/~3/179649723/microsoft_blogg.html That was pretty easy: trying OpenSocial in Ning- November 4, 2007 If you already have made a Google Gadget, it's easy to make it part of Google OpenSocial. I tried it in Ning, because Ning lets you right in when you've made a network there. You have to wait to be approved to join Google's Orkut sandbox. The two or three Google Gadgets I'd made before don't do anything social, they just show some content in an iframe. But that's probably what I'd do if I wanted to make an OpenSocial app for work, maybe display a safety fact of the week from existing...http://blogs.opml.org/amyloo/2007/11/04#thatWasPrettyEasyTryingOpensocialInNing Russell Beattie asks Obvious Question 2.0- November 4, 2007 Russ asks: Where's the OpenSocial container API I love Russ because he cuts through all the BS and gets right to the core, most basic question, and he doesn't care who he pisses off. That's my kind of developer. You can't lie to the compiler, when the bits hit the road, you gotta know what garbage goes in and what garbage comes out. (Ahh programmer's humor!) In other words, suppose I wanted to compete with Google, MySpace, Plaxo and LinkedIn, well, where's the spec that shows me how to do...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/03/russellBeattieAsksObviousQ.html Why Facebook Shouldn't Fear OpenSocial- November 4, 2007 Google's OpenSocial has caused quite a stir over the past week. With support from MySpace, Hi5, Ning, LinkedIn, SalesForce, Friendster and a number of other large social networks, many have wondered if OpenSocial might deal a large blow to Facebook, or if it might be something Facebook will be forced to join to keep up (something that they appear to be open to). But Facebook doesn't need to worry. The killer app for any social network is its users, not its developer API. No one joins a...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/179435461/facebook_shouldnt_fear_opensocial... Stupid Technology, GM-style- November 3, 2007 I'm rarely in a General Motors car -- as is the case for more and more people these days. But while here in New Hampshire, I had a rental Buick Lacrosse. I actually hadn't even known there was a Buick called a Lacrosse. It was a long, mushy, unremarkable boat of a car, and I probably would have thought it was perfectly adequate except for one feature: It had some kind of technology that automatically turned down the stereo as you slowed, and turned the volume back up as the car went faster. I.http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/thetechobserver/~3/179226809/stupid-technology-gm-... The Next Microsoft- November 3, 2007 Google shares rose above $700 this week, making the search giant worth more than Cisco, Intel, Apple, or IBM, but still less than Microsoft and General Electric, if just barely. Is the company really worth that kind of money or is this just the effect of a bubble market Google is on a tear, that's for sure, but I see a few potholes ahead that the company could avoid but probably won't. Part of this stems from Google starting to look, in some ways, a bit like Microsoft. Uh-oh. I think...http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20071102_003354.html Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: 50M Facebook users don't care about OpenSocial APIs- November 2, 2007 OK, now this is totally misguided and wrong. I like Facebook Platform a whole lot, but to think that those 50M users won't care about the results from OpenSocial is like saying those 50M people don't surf the open Internet. Its also like AOL's hubris in the 90's: we have 12 million people (or whatever) ...Tags: m opensocial care users facebookhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blackrimglasses/~3/178849333/ Yet Another Newspaper Paywall Dropped- November 2, 2007 Newspaper paywalls keep coming down. Just a month and a half after the NY Times dropped its paywall for TimesSelect, the Sacramento Bee is freeing its Capitol Alert service. This was actually a more interesting experiment. Launched in January of this year, it wasn't (like most paywalls) about taking content from the newspaper and hiding it behind walls, but creating a separate new service for political insiders. It was pricey, but the idea is that it would be worth it for folks like...http://techdirt.com/articles/20071101/193249.shtml |