Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

OpenSocial is Getting Better

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

OpenSocial Logo

Some folks will recall back in November I wrote how OpenSocial was irrelevant as a platform for social networking applications. I’ve been working with it for the last three days on MySpace and have to say, over the last few months the folks at MySpace have been working hard to bring OpenSocial to a usable reality. I’ve had some time this week to experiment with it and I must say - while certainly not “done” it’s come a VERY long way. Warning: This is going to get kinda lame for those who don’t care about Social Networks and application development. (more…)

Ultra High-End Audio - Another cool toy

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Kharma speakers With the Christmas holiday quickly approaching, the absurd continues on. I mentioned the Willies Jeep a couple of posts back and saw this one on Crave just the other day. Kharma brings us an audio system 99.999% of people can’t afford. Perhaps I am wrong, are people really making this much money that they can blow so much on absurd things? The speaker set you see left (photo courtesy of HigherFi.com) retails for about a cool million - who need’s 100 thousand dollar cars when you can get speakers? Oh, don’t forget that you’ll need to buy a preampamp and at least a tuner expect to drop ten thousand on that, but what’s a few grand after the million anyway? I guess I’ll just have to live with my sad sub $1,000 Boston Acoustic speakers and theater system until I win PowerBall.

Why OpenSocial doesn’t matter - yet.

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

OpenSocial

OpenSocial, is a new open standard for applications to integrate with some of the largest social networks in the world. On the surface, OpenSocial is a great move forward for application developers. The learning curve for FBML and FQL at Facebook is trivial at best, but just as learning many similar languages at once, having one simple API to reference is ultimately much easier. The portability of write once, run anywhere brings back to mind the panacea called Java. However, in reality, OpenSocial promotes frivolous time wasting applications that lack any real utility. This may change (and I sincerely hope it does) in future iterations, but for now, Facebook has the social networking platform to beat.

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