Archive for the ‘Api's’ Category

Give a little, take a little

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Who owns your friends (or rather the list of who your friends are and how they are connected to you) has been a big source of debate in the social networking world. Control over that data is what makes social networks like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn so potentially valuable. Yet ...

Our new dating site has 360 Million users

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon. Today, there are only ...

Collaboradate.com no more…

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Some big things to announce. Collaboradate.com is going away :( But wait! Not to worry, just the name is going away. I'm excited to announce that I've brought in a partner, and this was the first order of business. We are not set on the new name yet, but over the past ...

The biggest news in Online Dating and Social Networking in years

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

The official news is out on the MySpace and Google deal, first rumored earlier today. The big news: the two companies have actually been working together on OpenSocial all along, which launches officially tonight. Other “founding partners” of the project include: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, ...

Myspace Platform

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

MySpace is gearing up to launch MySpace Platform, according to a number of third party developers who’ve been contacted for input on the product. While this has been rumored since June, this is the first indication that the service is preparing to actually launch. And we also have information that ...

Google says: In your FACEbook with it’s new API

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Google’s goal - to fight Facebook by being even more open than the Facebook Platform. If Facebook is 98% open, Google wants to be 100%. The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start ...

The “Social Graph”

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Brad Fitzpatrick, of LiveJournal, who recently left Six Apart for Google has published notes on what he's going to be working on. There are an increasing number of new "social applications" as well as traditional application which either require the "social graph" or that could provide better value to users ...