Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Emergence of "Spam 2.0"

Posted on March 31, 2008 by jessestay

My recent blog post on the possible “Facebook Worm” seems to be making an effect in security circles. Within 24 hours I quickly got this e-mail from Zango making sure their name was not associated with it: Hello Jesse, I … Continue reading →

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Free T-Shirts, Fudruckers at Utah OpenSocial Hackathon

Posted on March 25, 2008 by jessestay

I just wanted to briefly mention that I now have 30 OpenSocial T-Shirts from Google for the Utah side of the West Coast Open Social Hackathon tomorrow night. Also, in addition to that, I hear Bungee Labs will be providing … Continue reading →

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Yahoo Joins OpenSocial, Google Announces OpenSocial Foundation

Posted on March 25, 2008 by jessestay

Today Yahoo announced that they are joining forces with the OpenSocial platform, and will be joining both Google and MySpace to build “The OpenSocial Foundation”. This new foundation “will seek to ensure that the technology behind OpenSocial remains implementable by … Continue reading →

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Are We Seeing the First Facebook "Worm"?

Posted on March 25, 2008 by jessestay

Today I received some interesting wall posts that claimed to be from my Aunt. The first looked like the following: hey do me a favor and try the new crush calculator, don’t worry its not some annoying facebook application that … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, I'm on Facebook -- Now What???, Social Media | 50 Comments

Well Done Guy! Chris DeVore is a Cheapskate

Posted on March 21, 2008 by jessestay

I just caught this article from Mashable and I just had to pipe in. In the article, Mashable’s Kristen Nicole claims Guy Kawasaki paid too much for the development of AllTop, at $10,000. They compare it to Askablogr.com, claiming Chris … Continue reading →

Posted in cost of development, developer rates, developers, development, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, OSS, Perl, Reviews | 20 Comments

Announcing the First West Coast OpenSocial Hackathon

Posted on March 21, 2008 by jessestay

After meeting up with Bess Ho, founder of the Silicon Valley Web Builders and Facebook Developers Garage, we decided a joint hackathon, focusing on OpenSocial would be a great opportunity for both of our groups. So I’m proud to announce … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, MySpace, OpenSocial, opensocial development, opensocial hackathon, OSS, Social Media, SocialOptimize.com | 13 Comments

Facebook Getting the Vote Out – but is it Good for Developers?

Posted on March 20, 2008 by jessestay

You’re seeing it here first folks – this morning Facebook announced a new tag on its wiki called . I imagine an announcement from Facebook will come soon on their purposes for this. From the wiki, : Displays a Rock … Continue reading →

Posted in breaking news, Facebook, Facebook Developer, facebook development, facebook news, facebook vote, fbml, fbml essentials, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, OSS, Reviews, Social Media | 1 Comment

It’s a Boy! The first full, live Twitter Birth

Posted on March 19, 2008 by jessestay

It’s a Boy! Yes, we gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby boy last night, March 19th, 2008, at 3:24am. He was 6lbs 4oz, at 19″. We’re still figuring out a name – it’s now between “Jesse III” (after my … Continue reading →

Posted in Baby 4.0, Baby Twitter, Blogging, Facebook, facebook baby, first twitter birth, Google, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, social announcements, social babies, Social Media, Twitter, Twitter birth | 9 Comments

Facebook Works to Reduce Spam Further With "Feed Forms"

Posted on March 7, 2008 by jessestay

Today, a new way of posting to the News Feed in Facebook appeared on the Facebook Developer’s wiki. Facebook introduced “Feed Forms”. To use a Feed form, you simply create a regular form as you would any other form, but … Continue reading →

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Twitter Looking Internally to Add Groups Functionality?

Posted on March 6, 2008 by jessestay

Today, on the Twitter developer’s mailing list, in response to the question: “it would be cool to have Twitter groups so you could @group and d group” It was answered by one of Twitter’s Engineers: ” This is on our … Continue reading →

Posted in Twitter, twitter channels, twitter development, twitter groups | 2 Comments