OpenSocial's Rhetoric About Open Standards is Disingenuous and Misses the Point
Many of the prominent blog posts and press pieces about OpenSocial have touted its use of open standards a ...
The Inspirational Story of the Facebook API
Working creatively with APIs is one of the things that makes software development fun. APIs exist mainly to allow ...
Won't Someone Please Think of the Condo Developers?
In the UN’s list of oppressed peoples, Condominium Developers are somewhere below adorable kittens. Yet I recently found my ...
SpotDJ is the Fastest Growing Application on Facebook!
According to appaholic, SpotDJ is currently the fastest growing app on Facebook! We’ve been so busy building the new ...
10 Second Interview – Adventures on Facebook
When we wrote the User Profile feature for SpotDJ, we decided we wanted something a little more interesting than ...
TV Chat Patent Approved 8 Years Later
Turns out that the method of integrating online chat and television that I co-invented as a Microsoft intern was ...
Five Lies Arthur Rodgers Told Me about The Beastie Boys
Ever listen to a song and realize that when you were a kid, you totally misinterpreted the lyrics? In ...
iPhone and Third Party Apps — I'm Still Skeptical
Back in January, when I expressed my frustration over the lack of a Third Party API for the iPhone, ...
"Professional C++" Is the Second Most Pirated Book!
Okay, so maybe it’s only the second most “Newly Popular” pirated book, but still — we’ve got more seeds ...
Marni Versus San Mateo General Hospital – Check Your Credit Report!
Some time in late 2001, my then-girlfriend-now-wife offered me a ride home from work and never showed up. As ...