social software

Quoted: Twitter is a great service, but it would be nothing without the other sites, tools, and apps that help you get the most out of it. Here we highlight more

I agree. The FB and OpenSocial application platforms open up tremendous opportunities for social asynchronous gaming (think Scrabulous)

Quoted: Making the gameplay asynchronous fits better with the “continuous partial attention” world that we increasingly live in. The reason I never became a hard core gamer is that the serial monogamy requirements (one game at a time, total dedication, long periods of gameplay coordinated with others) doesn’t mesh well with my lifestyle. Scrabulous is a better match for the “play a little bit when you have some time, at various points throughout the day” life that many of us lead.

Quoted: App creators insist that people actually enjoy the invitations. "It is something very positive," says Vikas Gupta, an Amazon.com alum who created both the popular Send Good Karma and Hug Me apps, and runs his start-up Jambool out of a spare bedroom in San Francisco's South of Market district. "It is a positive action that people like sending to their friends."

Quoted: Fewer than 1 million people visited Mixx last month, less than 5% of the traffic that competitor Digg saw. Given the circumstances, Mixx's glaring lack of success to date calls a number of things about this industry into question.

This explains why TwitterSync has not been working the past week.

Quoted: That's the difference. The Twitter app uses the Twitter API while TwitterSync uses IM - if IM is working, TwitterSync is faster and can update more often.

Quoted: That's what happens when you "jump the shark" and your app goes from successful to completely not successful. Why does this happens? This blog post is to dissect that exact issue.

Quoted: As a developer, your goal is to produce templatized feeds that are highly aggregative. Avoid template variables that are very specific or unique to any given user; those pieces of information should instead appear within the body_general parameter.

Blog post from Facebook confirming the new News Feed behavior.

Quoted: As part of our ongoing improvements to News Feed, we recently made it possible for users to see stories from applications they have not added.
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Use feed.publishTemplatizedAction and register your story templates with us. Only stories with registered templates will be visible to users who have not added your application. (Note: We recommend using feed.publishTemplatizedAction even if you are not registering the template because feed.publishActionOfUser will eventually be deprecated.)