Archives for the "API" tag
Fauxpenness
Some companies pretend to be open. Introducing the concept of Fauxpenness, a definition, and some examples from current companies.
Tags: API, Facebook, HTML, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, fauxpenness, iPhone
In Analysis, Technology
Googling Netscape
The Google stock is getting hurt in after hours trading as the company’s earnings disappointed Wall Street. It was to be expected but now is the time for executives at Google to look at history and, hopefully, not repeat it. The history I am talking about, in particular, is that of a company that was [...]
Tags: AOL, API, Google, Internet Explorer, Java, Microsoft, Search, Wall Street, Yahoo
In Analysis
Metrics – Weighting the Metrics
Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I’ve looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I’m going to try to figure out how this [...]
Tags: API, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Search, eBay
In Analysis
The day I broke Gmail
Like many other geeks, I’ve gotten a Gmail account but unlike most people, it took me less than 48 hours to render unoperational (and this time, it’s not a joke). First of all, let me say that while it is an interesting package, it is not without flaws. For starters, the lack of indicator when the [...]
In Technology
Google Ping
I’ve been spending some time playing around with the Google API and can’t help but think there is a piece missing: That of sending data to Google via this interface. The concept is hardly new as weblog software like mine already sends information out to such services as Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Blogrolling and Technorati, telling them [...]
In Analysis
Tipping the Edge
Tim O’Reilly recently talked about the evolution of software and how all software should be network aware. While I generally believe that this is true (see my February 2000 article on Hybrid computing), I’d like to make a few comments on Tim’s note. Discoverability and Security The first assumption is that software should be able to [...]
Tags: AOL, API, Microsoft, XML
In Analysis
