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15 minutes ago Myspace pulled the wraps off of their developer platform website. Apparently they eschewed the conventions previously set forth by Bebo and Facebook and are letting everyone in. Its a free for all folks!
Basics:

Built on a combination of opensocial and myspace “Action Scripts”
Myspace is hosting the apps (for now)
You can run advertising on [...]

Hey everyone, I’d like to announce Tasty, the first project to come out of the web+ labs. Its a super simple, super straightforward little app written in pure Ajax. Tasty (tastytag.com) is a graphical visualizer for delicious. Type in any url and see the top 10 tags people have used to tag that URL on [...]

A few people emailed me asking me to elaborate on my claim that employing open source as a promotional tool and community building tool were good ideas. A few also asked if I’d consider it for my upcoming web apps. Well let me answer the second part first: yes we are considering it. Why? [...]

- What we have, and what’s coming -
Open source has been a hot topic in the software world over the last ten years or so, due in no small part to the widespread penetration of Linux in corporate environments (mainly as servers). However there has been a long running debate on how one can really [...]

So if you know me, you know I’m a huge proponent of getting things done where its most cost effective. I am a huge believer in the globalization and global sourcing movement. But there is always this question in the back of my head being on the east coast: does your company’s geography matter?
Lots of [...]

Earlier in the week I talked about goal setting when building a web app, now today I think its important to look at your target market. Who are you trying to sell this app to? Who is likely to use it? How much money is this group worth? Etc, etc.One of the biggest mistakes I [...]

Everyone is interested in building web apps these days, just look at the hundreds of YouTube copy cats, or MySpace copy cats popping up every day. There are a few things that people are forgetting to look at when they plan and build their web sites/services/apps. So here I am today offering up some [...]

Big In Japan Goes Open Source

So despite the hubbub over the google monster releasing another google product that will take over the google world, people are missing another important announcement: the Google Account system for web applications. What does this mean to you? Not much. What does it mean to me, the nimble web developer? Well for one it means [...]