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Sunday, 15 March 2009

More time to play

Announcement of the new Friend Connect APIs didn't come as much of a surprise.
It does align Friend Connect up more directly against Facebook's connect.

Although they have almost always been viewed as doing the same thing by the media, who don't like to complicate things for their readership, the two products have until now been pitched at very different audiences.

The new API allows the developers, who saw Friend Connect very much as a shallow "bolt on" solution to roll their sleeves up and get mucky with code, weaving Friend Connect much more richly than before into their application.
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Thursday, 12 March 2009

Spinal tap and the BBC

I was amused to notice that all the embedded flash players scattered over the BBC news web site throw a sly reference to the cult film "This is Spinal Tap".

The players default sound level is 9, but if that is not loud enough for you, then you can "turn it up to eleven".
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