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Facebook Developer Application

• allows for easy access to application settings all within the Facebook environment [...]
• standards-based web service with methods for accessing and contributing Facebook data [...]
• uses a REST-based interface [...]
  • Representational State Transfer (REST) is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web [...]
• In order for a Facebook API client to use the API, the user of the client application must be logged in to Facebook [...]
• RFacebook (formerly RBook): a Ruby Client for Facebook API 1.0+ [...]
• FBML – Facebook Markup Language [...]
• FQL – Facebook Query Language [...]

… when booking your next flight? ;) There is a great project, which doesn’t focus on the money you pay for the flight, but the most important costs:

Real Costs is a Firefox plug-in that inserts emissions data into travel related e-commerce websites. The first version adds CO2 emissions information to airfare websites such as Orbitz.com, United.com, Delta.com, etc. Following versions will work with car directions, car rental, and shipping websites. Think of it like the nutritional information labeling on the back of food… except for emissions.
(www.therealcosts.com)

Also check out the official anouncement by the creator.

With Meltmail, you only give your unique Meltmail-address (which forwards to your own), get the desired information and after a defined period of time (the melting point) the Meltmail-address will be deleted.

Meltmail. Your temporary e-mail forwarding.

Super Beitrag auf TechCrunch, wo die Frage gestellt wird, ob Deutschland nur ein Volk von “Copy/Paste”-Entwicklern ist oder auch selbst kreativ sein kann.

Web 2.0 in Germany: Copy/Paste Innovation or more?

This article introduces core Semantic Web concepts and standards and explains how to expose an LDAP directory as a service that Semantic Web applications can consume using the open source SquirrelRDF utility.

Bring existing data to the Semantic Web

Google has revamped Google Analytics, improving and expanding the data reporting capabilities of the Web site usage monitoring service.

Macworld: News: Google Analytics gets a makeover

I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook goes public or gets sold for more than $3 billion. They are sitting on a gold mine.

What’s next? Facebook vs. Linked In « Scobleizer

As you can see, the two services grew at a similar pace until around 240 days in, with Blogger posts increasing faster than Twitter messages. Then around November 21, 2006, Twitter took off and never looked back.

Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger (kottke.org)

Der gute Jeff Barr, seines Zeichens Mann für die Web-Services bei Amazon und Fan von Second Life, kommt am 14.5 ins schöne München und gibt einiges im Umfeld einer Amazon-Veranstaltung zum Besten:

Im Rahmen des 45-minütigen Vortrages wird Jeff Barr folgende Themen vorstellen:

• Innovationen und internationale Beispiele der Nutzung von Amazon Ecommerce Services (ECS) im Rahmen des Partnerprogramms.
• Skizzierung von Möglichkeiten des Einsatzes der Amazon ECommerce Services (ECS) für Social Commercce / Web 2.0 Websites
• Nutzung der Amazon Web Services und des Amazon Partnerprogramms in Second Life

(siehe auch affiliate-blog.amazon.de)

Anscheinend haben sich einige Clifford’s Buch

zu Herzen genommen.

Denn “US-Schulen schwören Computern ab” oder “Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops“.

I have tested Grooker — a really nice looking search-engine — some years ago, when it was a desktop-application. Seems that it has become a web-application since then. Its still nice looking and returns good results.

Unfortunately, at the moment, it isn’t good for much, because the OpenID might be pointing at a server that’s evil or silly. It’s good enough for blog comments and that’s about it.

ongoing · OpenID at Work

Draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct by Tim O’Reilly

Uuh…

NetBeans.org is proud to announce the availability of NetBeans IDE 6.0 Preview (Milestone 9). Here are some of the highlights:

• Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails Support
  
• A Smarter and Faster Editor
  
• Improved Swing development (Swing Data Binding)
  
• Integrated Profiling
  
• Integrated Visual Design for Web Applications
  
• New, Integrated UI for CLDC/MIDP and CDC development

View announcement

I think that rather than adopting this one-off inspector approach, outfits like Second Life and all the other big web sites should get together to accept registration claims from whatever identity providers would fully guarantee both accuracy and the anonymity of their users.

Kim Cameron’s Identity Weblog » Age and identity verification in Second Life

The Information Sharing Paradox

If you can’t share everything with everyone and,

you can’t ask everyone every question every day,

then how is someone going to find something?

Jeff Jonas: The Information Sharing Paradox