The natural inclination right now for geeks of a certain type is to start dreaming up new standards bodies, or how they can participate in the Open Web Foundation to make a Super Awesome Twitter API Evolution Committee. Here’s my recommendation: Don’t. Don’t do any of that shit, and don’t run off to make membership [...]
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No I haven’t forgot about the little endeavour I launched in May: I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, then great: we can replicate it on our own sites or even develop something more permanent, public, and professional. If it doesn’t work, then that’s ok too: without actually losing [...]
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This occurred to me last night when I was looking at some of the new Friend Connect gadgets. I wanted to try them but they don’t go along with what I do at brianfrank.ca very well. The ldnbeta.ca site evolved from that. I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, [...]
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