Monthly Archives: February 2010

Developing an Outlook Social Connector Provider for Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2003 All the tech details on creating an Outlook Social Connector provider. (categories: outlook email socialsoftware ) Our Look at the LinkedIn Social Connector for Outlook – … Continue reading →

In the World of Facebook – The New York Review of Books Great article on facebook past, present and future. (categories: facebook culture socialsoftware ambientawareness )

Introducing Our Ridiculously Simple Twilio SMS API – Twilio Cloud Communications – Discover Our Web Services API for Making & Receiving Phone Calls & Text Messages, Cloud Telephony We’re ridiculously excited about Twilio SMS. Previously, building SMS apps was hard… … Continue reading →

Clive Thompson in Praise of Online Obscurity | Magazine Maybe we should be designing tools that reward obscurity — that encourage us to remain in the shadows. Or what if they warned us when our social circles became unsustainably large? … Continue reading →

The social behavior incentive (how your app can be as addictive as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare) 1. Serve your users’ narcissism. 2. Measure behavior and report it. 3. Add status for behaviors. 4. Make multiple status reports. 5. Make undesired behavior … Continue reading →

Algorithmic recruitment with GitHub :: Hackdiary Great example of how social software adds real value to your everyday life. (categories: social graph socialsoftware algorithm network graphing socialnetworks ) Plupload – A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, … Continue reading →

A Whole Lotta Nothing: Broken feedback loops Quote: "So to future application creators I ask that you simply respect the creators of content and help them improve by offering notification, search, and/or backlink capabilities so it’s possible for someone to … Continue reading →

An Entirely Other Day: The Days of Miracles and Wonder LOVE this. (categories: funny future writing humor culture 2010 technology apple ) The LinkedIn Blog » Blog Archive Reorder the Sections on Your LinkedIn Profile: Now You’re in Control « … Continue reading →

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: How Google sets goals and measures success Excerpt: "Google sets impossible bodacious goals…and then achieves them. The engineering mindset of solving the impossible problem is part of the culture instilled in every group … Continue reading →