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Facebook Opens Up: Lets Developers Access Status Updates, Notes, Links, and Videos
Facebook announced a major update to its API tonight that will allow developers to read and post status updates, links, and notes to Facebook. In addtion, Facebook now also allows third-party developers to create applications that can upload videos directly to a user's account. The service already had an API for uploading and viewing photos. Sponsor The company also announced that its users now share over 24 million links every month, and that more than 15 million [+]Tweettornado: Twitter Spamming Software We Won’t Tolerate
Twitter spam is an ongoing issue, that in recent months, Twitter has become much better at dealing with. But as with the big social networks before it, spammers are getting more aggressive with their tactics, and software solutions are emerging to automate the process of mass-adding friends and blasting out marketing messages. The most egregious we’ve seen yet is Twittertornado, which launched last week. The software automates the entire process of Twitter, from [+]SocialWhois: Whois Lookups for the Social Web
When you want to know about a domain name, you jump to whois to get all of the information on the person who registered it. But when you want to know more about the person who just started following you on Twitter or FriendFeed, it hasn't been that easy - even though we've tried to provide you with tools to do it. Now, a new service promises to simplify the process. It's a new take [+]What is Twitter’s Vision?
Mark D. Drapeau, Ph.D., is a Washington, D.C.-based biological scientist, government consultant, and frequent writer on social media and society. Perhaps overshadowed by Super Bowl chatter, the past weekend was also noteworthy for a thoughtful Wall Street Journal blog post by Chris Anderson called, The Economics of Giving it Away. Many companies trading in bits and bytes make “products” that are built on the new economy of “free.” Yet many of these seemingly successful companies [+]Beaming Like It’s 1999: Easycontact Simplifies iPhone Contact Sharing
As much as we love to laud the features of the iPhone, we're also the first to admit that it's missing some basic functions - functions so seemingly obvious that it's boggling that more app developers aren't rushing to solve them. And while our favorite gripe is the lack of copy and paste functionality, there are still a number of other complaints on the list - like not being able to easily share contact information. [+]Anheuser-Busch Gets a Blog Just in Time for the Super Bowl
Quick, what’s your favorite Super Bowl advertiser? If you said Anheuser-Busch then today’s news might add a little extra gallop to your trot. Perfectly timed with all the Super Bowl commercial hype, Anheuser-Busch has just released AB-Extras.com, a blog-like site that aims to take you behind the scenes of their highly anticipated spots. Ab-Extras gets you up close and personal with video footage of Joe Pytka, the Director of the commercials, Robin Wiltshire, the Clydesdale trainer, [+]Dress Up Your Feed With BlastCasta
Feed manipulation service BlastCasta has released a new feed widget this morning that allows publishers to offer more sophisticated feed subscription options to readers and is highly customizable. The BlastCasta widget works with or without FeedBurner and provides options to filter your feed by keyword, sort it differently or translate it into any of 23 different languages. There's tickers and widgets and an API. BlastCasta could be a good option for [+]
