- Posted by jfarrar on May 11, 2008
I've been looking around the last couple of days at all of the announcements regarding the latest buzz word "Data Portability". It is interesting to see all of the major social players moving into the realm of data availability. This is much different then data portability, and should not be confused. Somehow it's been interpreted as the same thing. To most people it would just seem semantical, but it's really quite different.
Anyhow, it's interesting to see the competition and collaboration going on between Facebook, Plaxo, Myspace and Google in this area. You can read about facebook's platform "Facebook Connect" here. Myspace announced their platform Myspace Data Availability here. Google is planning on coming out with "Friend Connect" for OpenSocial, detailed here.
On a related note, it's ironic to see LinkedIn falling further behind the times in terms of their platform. I've really wanted to play around with their API, but it's completely closed to people that don't work for big companies. Right now they are only interested in PR. While they keep posting blogs and videos about their various integrations in to big named companies, I still have yet to see them announce (or even say for that matter) when they will open this up to developers as a whole. They have a ridiculous note at the bottom of each of these API posts that says if you are interested to contact them. However, when you do, there isn't even a generic reply sent back and I never got a reply back from a person. Logic would dictate that you have a few people dedicated to this email account, however it appears that only their lead guy gets them.
This is all well and good and I'm happy for LinkedIn. Really though, when will they learn that opening up something like this to all developers will begin to push them back into competition with the other social sites out there. Facebook has already started stealing LinkedIn users based on what I have read. Anyhow I guess this is turning into a rant so I will stop. It just frustrates me to no end when I read about an API, but it's all about PR and not really allowing developers access to use it.
On another side note. I looked around at the different LinkedIn implementations on the web. The javascript version could easily be put on any site. I tested it out from some websites I have and it worked great. They probably also have a server side API that is used by some of their partners.
Once again!
The Real JoeDeveloper
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- Posted by joedeveloper on April 23, 2008
It's official, we have launched the Click2Message application into beta. We have made some stability changes to the application and are continuing to make sure everything is running smoothly. If anyone needs help or has problems please don't hesitate to add a comment or send an email to click2message@joedeveloper.net.
Keep checking in for updates to the Click2Message application. Shortly we will be unveiling the website. This will allow you to manage your account as well as distribute the application to different social networking sites or even your own website. Additionally we have quite a few new features that we will be rolling out soon. Once again if you have any feedback or want to know more feel free to email us.
There has been some really great press regarding the application lately so please check it out:
http://www.broadsoft.com/Newsroom/Press2008/voip-application-on-facebook.htm
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080422/0389268.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24255832/
http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/broadsoft-and-joedeveloper-net-mashup-facebook/2008-04-22
Also don't forget that Broadsoft is at Web 2.0 in San Francisco.
Visit the BroadSoft Xtended booth (#220) at Web 2.0 Expo from April 23 to 25 for a live demo of the Click2Message Facebook application.
Thanks!
JoeDeveloper.NET
P.S.
Congratulations to Joseph and his Wife who just had their second child Micah.
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