Sharing recent tweets with blog readers.

MessageDance FatBird does a smart url expansion creating a rich media browsing experience. Current release shows YouTube videos and Flickr pictures automatically. You can even listen to song if tweet has any url pointing to mp3 file as we render a player

Big social media opportunity lies in increasing the size of creators.

It's always refreshing to see  good discussion on the big picture. Fred Wilson started this thread sharing his social media vision.
"every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet."

This vision is brilliant in it's simplicity but it's a big shift in the grand scheme [...]

Phoenix Lander ‘Talks’ to Twitterers

Kenneth Chang has written a wonderful story on how Phoenix Lander team is using Twitter.

Dave posted about this development yesterday on Tuesday. Followers take off has been rapid.
I am glad this news demonstrates how new technology is helping NASA connect with younger audience. NASA looks cool and Twitter looks useful to the [...]

Implicit Web, Interface for Telling and Atomization of Conversations - Recipe for OMG

Trying to understand evolving signals around silent web. Web which we users leave behind when we share our profile data, friends information and information related to transactional experience.  I think something significant is just around the corner. These signals are coming up in memes such as Implicit Web, Atomization of conversations, Interface for telling and [...]

Facebook decided to block Google’s FriendConnect

Charlie Cheever from Facebook has hurled first real bomb in closely observed attempts by  social networking platforms to "open up".  Data portability promise got first reality check of ToS violation.

Facebook spent couple of days brainstorming on Google's "grand design" and came to conclusion that it's better to block them right away. So no Google [...]

Myspace’s Data Availability - The walls are coming down

Facebook and Myspace are extremely busy in wooing  developers. Yesterday Facebook announced changes in Profile display and API support. Today Myspace came out with a significantly expanded approach to data sharing. Or as they are calling it Data Availability. Myspace also formally joined Data Portability group.
Let's understand full significance of this announcement from developer's [...]

Breaking news using Twitter. From Reuters to Reuwitters.

Still remember the day when I was telling folks how Twitter will one day do the job of Reuters. Looks like we are getting closer to that possibility. Adam Pasick, not surprisingly on Reuter blog,  is using this little incident to illustrate how Twitter is now the starting point for lot of breaking news:

At about [...]

Everybody loves Twitter, Everybody wants it distributed

Last couple of days, I have been explaining to many people how Twitter’s open architecture changes the game. I blogged about API users providing shared experience here. Not to miss out on this, we went all out in building Twitter support in MessageDance. Yes offline tweet support included!
Couple of days back, Eric at VentureBeat, reviewed [...]

How to participate in emerging cloud computing architecture?

Cloud computing is all about shared responsibility! API based development model is declarative syntax of cooperative spirit. You share services, you share the burden of keeping alive underlying user experience as well.
Twitter ecosystem is a best example of that model and if you want to see the future of software development then just follow [...]

Follow your passion and product will come out

That’s what I noticed with our fascination with Twitter. I love that tool and every time when somebody says - “I don’t get Twitter”, I just chuckle. We announced something big today which is related to Twitter.
With MessageDance now you can send your twitter status from your existing email account. To me the [...]