Posts Tagged with ‘developers’

For all my harping on cellular providers' ho-hum attempts to deliver quality mobile social content, I like to think I'm holding out for the real goods.  From what I can tell, Fring might just be the at the head of the mobile social platform pack. 
Fring is a free mobile platform that allows users to access social communities like Skype, MSN Messenger, GTalk, ICQ, SIP, Twitter, Yahoo! and AIM on the go via cellular devices.  For most of those [...]

A recent conversation with LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye at the New York Times, revealed some of the details involved with the business networking site's future plans to offer a developer platform.
With the Facebook Platform, developers are free to develop whatever applications their minds can come up with, which accounts for some useless apps, such as the Homeland Security Terror Alert Advisor that constantly shows the terror alert level in your profile and Booze Mail which allows you to send friends [...]

Today, Michael Arrington has suggested at TechCrunch that MySpace's developer platform will launch as soon as next week, most likely coinciding with the Web 2.0 Summit taking place in San Francisco from October 17-19. Not only that, but developers will reportedly have the ability to serve their own advertising within applications and keep 100% of the revenue, much like Facebook!
It was first mentioned that MySpace would introduce a developer platform back in June, when MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe told Financial [...]

It has been more than 5 months since I first began testing the invite-only beta of Joost. Today now officially marks the public launch of the online television service, and Joost proudly claims on their mildly redesigned homepage that they have accumulated 250+ channels and 15,000+ TV shows.
Although the Joost software has been updated now to version 1.0, the service makes sure to state that “Joost is still Beta software — there's a lot more work to be [...]

In 22 days, on October 1st, Mashup Challenge will launch, offering developers an interesting twist on creating new web 2.0 mashups.
For those of you who are not exactly sure of what a mashup is, it is "a combination of one or more data sources to create a unified interface and experience." For example, Dewspot is a mashup that integrates features of Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps, and Flickr into one central service.
So what's so different the Mashup Challenge? Well, it [...]