http://www.bratku.com Rocking the social networks Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:17:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en YouTube has announced their extended API to be available for 3rd party developers. New API allows developers to use YouTube content in their online or offline applications more extensivelly. Here are some key features: Create a web front end to let people view videos about specific topics. Create a desktop application or plugin ... http://www.bratku.com/2008/03/12/youtube-api/ Just few examples of how you can turn meaningless (at the first glance) data into an art... http://www.bratku.com/2008/03/05/art-of-data-mining/ Apparently Steven Spielberg is about to launch a social network for users interested in paranormal and extraterrestrial experiences... http://www.bratku.com/2008/03/04/spooky-social-network/ Keeping up with the "I post what you post, you post what I post" paradigm, I feel obliged to inform you that MySpace has launched their development platform which is based on OpenSocial API. As opposed to Facebook, MySpace are going to have two or so month lead in period, so ... http://www.bratku.com/2008/02/05/myspace-launched-development-platform/ In social networks we do not waste time - half a year in battle gets you a veteran's badge. Facebook has introduced it's open platfrom about 6 months ago. Since than more that 70,000 developers lined up under its flags. About a month ago Google introduced its OpenSocial that is a ... http://www.bratku.com/2007/12/12/facebook-platform-vs-google-pr/ Network information search has a short but exciting history. Let's look at some trendsetters and heroes of search and try to see where this whole thing is going. 1) 1990 - Archie . Created by a few students at McGuill University in Montreal and designed to search for scientific documents. Archie ... http://www.bratku.com/2007/12/09/a-brief-history-of-search/ Promises Plaxo Chief Platfrom Architect Joseph Smarr. Plaxo is having an exciting romance with OpenSocial, boasting an impressive rise in connections number since OpenSocial introduction on 31st of October. This is of course is pure announcement hype since non of OpenSocial partners has managed to produce any significant value to their ... http://www.bratku.com/2007/12/08/its-going-to-be-a-good-year-for-the-social-web/ Or put differently, what value will one user bring to a social network itself or to a third-party application running on a social network platfrom? Take Facebook – Adonomics evaluation renders an active user value at $270. This is how much value user brings to Facebook itself. It is a bit more ... http://www.bratku.com/2007/12/05/how-much-is-a-social-network-user-worth/ Google is experimenting with new voting engine for the search results. Users have the following options: Like it? Don't like it? Know of a better webpage? It's all experimental and in testing phase. Emphasis is on the social note. However to work properly I believe it has to be tightly integrated into existing social networks. ... http://www.bratku.com/2007/11/29/vote-for-your-search-results/ What I'm going to do today, is to show how company can integrate their existing services with Facebook. Company that I'll take as example is Box.net. Company was founded in 2005, they are specialising in online storage solutions and they were the first company to provide this service. For those who ... http://www.bratku.com/2007/11/29/how-to-integrate-services-in-facebook-example/