Toro is a Twitter client that is made to be simple. Toro is currently using an experimental Twitter client library that removes the Twitter API limit. Here’s the direct link for linux users: http://www.gen-6.com/toro/release/Toro.air...
Soshiku › The Smart Way to Keep Track of Your Schoolwork Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS. (tags: web2.0 student) jira4r - jira ruby client jira4r is a Ruby client library useful for controlling Atlassian's JIRA issue tracking system. It is currently in uses as part of the Xircles product that manages the Codehaus and other open source development sites. While not under heavy development, it is in heavy use in production...
Every Facebook application developer faces a big choice early on in their design: whether to build the bulk of their apps’ canvas pages in FBML or iframes. While there are advantages and disadvantages to each approach, those that choose FBML often get support for platform features well before those that choose iframes. Tonight, Facebook is adding support for some platform features for apps with iframe-based canvas pages. Specifically, Facebook is adding: XFBML support, which allows iframe-based apps to use FBML tags Cached friend lists and preload FQL data support in the JavaScript client library Support for preloading FQL queries XFBML...
It's Friday now and hackweek comes to an end for me. It was exceptionally fun and we got some decent work done. The team was fabulous, a combination of SUSE and external community guys. Frank was here for the whole week and worked on the API and the opendesktop.org implementation of it. Sebastian joined us for two days and we had a lot of interesting and useful discussion how to put Nepomuk into the picture, Dirk started to write a Plasmoid for showing the activity log on the desktop, and Zack was here this morning giving us moral support and...
Although Facebook has increasingly provided more and more application analytics to developers over the last year, developers who require more insight into their users’ behavior must roll their own analytics toolkits or turn to third parties. We recently profiled top Facebook application analytics providers, and new startup Kontagent is emerging as one of the most powerful early products. Kontagent was originally an app company started by Albert Lai and Jeffrey Tseng. The company built such advanced internal analytics tools that they decided to turn themselves into an analytics company instead. Now, the company is helping developers understand their users, improve...
Yesterday at f8, Facebook officially launched Facebook Connect, a JavaScript client library and API for third party websites to integrate with Facebook more powerfully than they could with previous APIs for third party websites. With Facebook Connect, webmasters can allow users to authenticate with their Facebook credentials, find friends who also use your site, and publish activity on your site through their Facebook feeds. For many webmasters, Facebook Connect could be a great way to ease the registration process and grow your site’s traffic. Facebook Connect will be in beta until the fall. Webmasters should check out the developer documentation...
Android is the new highly-anticipated “open source” mobile platform that is currently under development at Google. There are a high expectations of Android as the first viable open source based mobile platform and a viable competitor to the dominance of Symbian, Microsoft and now Apple. Android is based on Linux and developers can write applications in managed code that use the Google Android SDK, which is developed in Java. Initially with the Android SDK, there were three ways that a developer could communicate with other services or devices. The first was through text messaging with SMS (or MMS), with...
