Posts Tagged ‘ social networking ’

OpenSocial API and Facebook API Should Be Friends

Because Facebook decided to isolate itself from Google’s OpenSocial, if you’re a social app developer, you’d need to learn both Facebook API and OpenSocial API to penetrate all popular social networks. It’s hard enough to perfect a social app; and more pain comes when converting it to support on a different API. From what I’ve noticed [ READ MORE ]

Microblog for Book Readers

I’m supposed to give this post a title, Twitter for Book Readers, but Twitter doesn’t like people using the words Twitter, tweet and tweeting so loosely. Sony just launched a new website called Words Move Me. I like these website–simple yet cool. It’s a social network for readers to share quotes from their favorite books. That’s [ READ MORE ]

Twitter, Facebook Died on Us

Around 13:00 UTC (if my timezone conversion is correct), social websites Twitter and Facebook died. I “shed tears” for those websites. Apparently, a crude but seemingly effective method of bringing a website down was used. I didn’t notice this because I was asleep between 12:30-15:00 UTC. Damn… The exciting things happen when I’m asleep. See TechCrunch [ READ MORE ]

On the Topic, Cory

Just like the time when the Iran elections was a buzz, the death of former president of the Philippines, Cory Aquino, was in every corner of the country’s internet. My TwitterFox gave out an alert every few minutes. At least half of the new tweets were about Cory. People “shed tears for Cory.” I have no [ READ MORE ]

Truth About Lucio Tan

While I was taking a stroll around PCIJ’s Blog, I saw in the website’s shoutbox a link to a controversial website. http://truthaboutluciotan.blogspot.com I’ll begin first with a disclaimer: I am not in any way confirming that this blog contains factual posts nor am I rejecting the possibility that there is indeed truth behind those posts. Now back to [ READ MORE ]

Connecting Social Networks

Two nights ago, I was playing with WordPress, Facebook and Twitter, trying to connect them in some way. I admit I am lazy when it comes to sharing my posts in my social networks. If it can be automated, why not. Luckily we have the brilliant developers of Ping.fm to assist us with those kinds [ READ MORE ]

Social Networking in Plain English

This is a very informative video about social networking. Non-geeky guys, watch the video. It’s in plain english. To watch more videos made by Common Craft, visit their website at http://commoncraft.com. [ READ MORE ]

Connecting Stuff

I’m experimenting with some plugins right now. I’m trying to connect Facebook, Twitter and WordPress. So the flow should be, whenever I post something on my WordPress blog, it should update my Twitter and Facebook. Let’s see if it works right now. [ READ MORE ]