Tag Archives : Application programming interface

Ping Apple’s Ping music social network had a rocky start, it was hit with spam comments,  saw Facebook withdrawing ‘Facebook Connect’ and is plagued with  international availability issues, despite these issues it surpassed the 1 million user milestone in few days after launch. Apple had introduced Ping as the centerpiece of iTunes 10, users can follow updates from both their friends [...]

Facebook Connect Facebook has reportedly pulled the plug on using the ‘Facebook Connect’ on iTunes Ping by turning off Apple’s access to its Facebook Connect API, as  an agreement between Apple and Facebook couldn’t be reached,  prompting Facebook to cut off access.  Apple subsequently removed the feature from its service. Ideally, Facebook’s  API is open to any application [...]

Twitter Twitter has announced a new beta service called Site Streams a new feature on the Streaming API. The new functionality allows mobile push services  to immediately display new tweets, mentions and other data as soon as they come in without having to deal with Twitter’s REST API rate limits. “The initial version delivers events created by, or directed to, users that have shared [...]

Foursquare Launch of Facebook Places in US has all the features of a Facebook feature launch – huge publicity in media, indepth discussions on blogosphere, scrutiny by privacy advocates and of course, large number of users trying it out. One unexpected  but, positive consequence is that Foursquare is experiencing record interest in the wake of the launch of Facebook Places. On Thursday, the [...]

Image via Wikipedia Social-networking site Facebook joins the list of companies realizing the potential of Google’s Android mobile OS and embracing it. Facebook which already has a SDK (Software Development Kit) for iPhone has launched the official Facebook Software Development Kit for Android, the SDK was demoed at Google’s conference in San Francisco last week.(http://code.google.com/p/fbconnect-android/). ” [...]

Image via CrunchBase Facebook unveiled its  grand plan to make the the rest of the web social at its F8 developer’s conference in San Francisco held yesterday. Facebook’s Director of Product, Bret Taylor laid out three major initiatives to that effect. Open Graph Protocol, Social Plugins, and changes to the Facebook API that will enable developers to use these services (Graph [...]

Sporkings have been trialling WordPress 2.8 beta recently and we have to say we Love it! One of the best things to come out of this release is the editor for themes and plugins, see screenshot, this is what an editor should look like! 2.8 when officially released offers a plethora of new features: User Features New Theme Installer routines Use “Custom Header” for menu text and revise [...]