Category Archives: platform

First the PC. Second the Web. Third the Cloud. And Now…The Chain – Why Bitcoin is Not Just a Currency – It’s a Platform!

Posted on November 23, 2013 by jessestay

What if you could transfer stock to another individual, without a stock broker or stock certificate? What if you could sell your home, without a real estate broker or deed? What if you could sell your car without need for … Continue reading →

Posted in bitcoin, blockchain, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, litecoin, miner, pc, platform, Technology, the cloud, web | 5 Comments

Facebook Kills the Storage Limit

Posted on April 21, 2010 by jessestay

Today at Facebook’s F8 developer’s conference Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be adapting their policy surrounding the length of time developers can store data taken from the Facebook API on their own servers.  Very soon, the infamous, “store for … Continue reading →

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Facebook Posts New Dashboard API Methods, Prepares New Interface

Posted on December 5, 2009 by jessestay

Early today Facebook posted a series of new API methods to their Developer Wiki enabling developers to post updates to what was previously called the “Application Navigation”, but what would now appear to be called “the Dashboard”.  The Dashboard API … Continue reading →

Posted in api, dashboard, developers, Facebook, Geeky, notifications, platform, roadmap, Technology | 1 Comment

"X" Marks the Spot for New Paypal Development Platform

Posted on November 4, 2009 by jessestay

“X”. It’s a common variable used in many a code base.  It’s one of the most common variables of any code base.  It’s what counts.  That’s what Paypal wants to become in the hands of developers, as they stated in … Continue reading →

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Facebook Launches Application Creation API

Posted on October 13, 2009 by jessestay

One of my biggest frustrations as a Facebook API developer of WordPress plugins has been the need to require my users to go out and create their own application in Facebook for their blog.  To do so they had to … Continue reading →

Posted in api, application creation api, f8, Facebook, Geeky, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, platform, Technology | 10 Comments

Twitter Starts the Chatter on API Guidelines

Posted on September 10, 2009 by jessestay

On the Twitter development mailing list today Twitter began discussion on rules developers should abide by when writing applications for the Twitter API.  Such terms come on the heels of a much broader Terms of Service launched for the general … Continue reading →

Posted in api, developer guidelines, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, platform, social, Technology, terms of service, ToS, Twitter | 1 Comment

Facebook Prepares to Compete With Gmail: Launches Messaging API

Posted on August 12, 2009 by jessestay

Facebook is moving too fast this week for me to keep up.  On the heels of the Acquisition of Gmail-creator-founded FriendFeed, along with the launch of their new search interface, Facebook just took it one step further today.  In an … Continue reading →

Posted in api, Facebook, gmail, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, inbox, mail, platform, social, Technology | 15 Comments

FriendFeed Opens Up the Firehose to Developers

Posted on July 20, 2009 by jessestay

FriendFeed seems to be staying one (or two or three) step(s) ahead of Twitter in everything they do. Today FriendFeed released their real-time stream of data in beta to any and all developers wishing to write applications. Unlike Twitter, there … Continue reading →

Posted in api, firehose, FriendFeed, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, oauth, platform, real-time, Technology, Twitter | 27 Comments

I Should Have Heeded My Own Advice About Twitter

Posted on April 21, 2009 by jessestay

About a full year ago, I wrote of developers leaving the Twitter development platform due to Twitter consistently removing features, making changes without warning developers, and effectively putting developers out of business with just a single change of policy.  I … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, developers, Facebook, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, platform, rate limits, Technology, terms of service, Twitter | 63 Comments

1 Prediction Down, 7 to Go – Facebook Launches Connect for the iPhone

Posted on March 14, 2009 by jessestay

Beginning of February I announced my 8 late predictions that I thought would happen in 2009. One of those, which I actually mentioned originally last year, was that Facebook would launch a developer platform for the iPhone. Such a prediction … Continue reading →

Posted in connect, Facebook, fb, iphone, platform, Technology | 3 Comments