Facebook has Developer Platform for some time now. Obviously, MySpace won’t stay behind and let Facebook take all the credit. To counter Facebook, MySpace has announced the release of its own Developer Platform. That’s not all, MySpace Developer Platform is supporting OpenSocial API, an API that was released by Google awhile ago and has been giggling in the web since then.
As the title says, Google has released a new Social Graph API that reads public data from different social web sites and links the relations between people in the web. Basically, Google crawls between people’s relations and connections which is available in public personal data anywhere in the web, then it will find FOAF and XFN relations or any other way of connections as Google says.
So if I’m your friend, and you’re a friend of person B, and person B adds person C in his blogroll then Google Graph API can tell me that I have a connection with person B and also C whether that connection was found directly or indirectly.
No it is not and I think it kicks ass. It is easy, simple, and very user friendly to use or to learn. To backup my claim, Colin Mock, the famous writer, has published a new article in InsideRIA that backups my claim and pitches all the hype around AS3.0.
Hearing of Flex or Adobe Flex a lot without any idea what the hell does it mean? If yes, then here is a new published post in Ted’s blog talking about Flex and what is Flex.
I finally decided to open an Arabic blog about tech and programming, same as this blog but in Arabic. I made this decision few months ago which is to open an Arabic blog but I waited until the right time comes. I think now it’s the right time so I decided to go and upload the new Arabic blog few days ago. If you can read Arabic, go ahead and check it out!
Today SUN announced the intention to acquire MySQL, the famous, at least among developers, open source database company. $1 billion has been plunk down and the acquisition is expected to complete at the beginning of second half of 2008.
AIR, Adobe Integrated Runtime, is one of the new technologies introduced by Adobe to create a desktop applications using Flash/Flex. To get started with AIR, a new tutorial published to teach the basics of AIR and how to get started.
