Posts Tagged 'Social Networks'

A quick search on Google for the term ‘Social Media’ currently retrieves over 203,000,000 results. Just before Facebook started to make a name for itself and emerged on the scene back in late 2006 the buzz word on the internet was ‘Web 2.0,’ even then people were quick to chime in with there 10 pence worth and were happy to give you their opinion on the next best thing on the internet. This unfortunate movement also bought with it a hell of a lot of …

I want to just start this little post with that fact that I don’t know all the ins and outs of using Memcache but I have enough knowledge to just about get it working. I have access to a Mediatemple Dedicated Virtual Extreme server and managed to install it on the server using SSH, with the help of this little guide from Mediatemple which runs you through the installation process step by step.
Who uses Memcache?
Well Memcache was developed by Danga Interactive to enhance the speed …

API Knowledge
A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched the API to basically get a users tweets, pretty simple now I look back, but at the time it was the first time i’d done such a thing. As the development of social media continues this will increasingly open up opportunities to develop more and more …

Widgets fit perfectly into a world where information makes it’s self available where ever the end user wants it. Widgets offer the great ability to be placed where the community will use it the most thus maximising a marketers message within the product.
Tracking widgets is easy with tools such as clearsprings and Gigya. These services allow users to virally spread your message throughout the net easily integrating your product in social networks and blogs. A site that’s bringing widget making to the masses is Sproutbuilder.com. …

RSS feeds or ‘Rich Site Summary’ are standards when it comes to transporting data and using it on other sites, RSS feeds can be read in a web browser or subscribed to. Feeds are commonly refered to as ‘pulling’ rather than ‘pushing’ technology. ‘Pushing’ technology is publishing content and hoping that someone will pop by your site and read, listen or watch your content. RSS feeds are a pulling technology because visitors subscribe to your message and can retrieve it at any time. ‘Pulling’ technologies …

The web is evolving all the time and with this the risk of your data falling into the wrong hands and identity theft, is greatly increased. Also with so many sites asking us to sign-up and choose a username and password the amount of login details that users have to remember are growing, this prompted a group of influential people from various web organizations to start the OpenID foundation. Openid.net (2008) explains further the service on offer:

OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames and login …

Search engines like Google and Yahoo have made it easier to find what you want but the internet is still an un ordered jumble of pages that makes finding anything useful a problem. Tagging content can help organize it into sections. Social Bookmarks use tagging as their primary way of organizing content, if every page or piece of content was tagged with words relevant to that information users would be able to find the information that they want quicker. Every piece of content can be …

Mark Zuckerburg launched Facebook in February 2004 while attending Harvard University. Facebooks success is largely due to the environment that it was launched in, being a well respected university it was held in high esteem, making more people want to signup, another factor of Facebooks success is the intuitiveness of the application as a whole. The experience a user gets from Facebook is very positive, initially when Facebook launched the ‘News Feed’ some users we’re concerned about privacy, but this has grown to be one …