Archive for November, 2007

37 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Starting a Company

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

When I started a company a year and a half ago, I also started a list of things that would’ve been useful to have known ahead of time. My plan was to publish the list several years later in hindsight, but now that I’ve reached a nice round number (37) and half of my friends […]

OpenSocial’s Rhetoric About Open Standards is Disingenuous and Misses the Point

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Many of the prominent blog posts and press pieces about OpenSocial have touted its use of open standards a key benefit for developers. Focusing on HTML and JavaScript is not only inaccurate, but it actually makes the platform less attractive for developers.

We Like FBML
As a developer, I am far more interested in coding in FBML […]

The Inspirational Story of the Facebook API

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Working creatively with APIs is one of the things that makes software development fun. APIs exist mainly to allow third parties to add functionality to software that the original authors don’t have the time, interest, or creativity to do on their own.
Most APIs are built to limit functionality, or more kindly, at least to […]