Tag: API

A new site called JustSpotted provides Web surfers with the latest geographic locations of over 7,000 celebrities, based on user-submitted sightings and aggregated data from social networking sites. Set to launch on Tuesday, the site was originally designed with licensed software from Twitter, which would've allowed the company to automatically filter out every tweet pertaining to high-profile ...

Share Shortly after Facebook unveiled its expansive, Internet-swallowing Graph API system last week, people began raising questions about how the social networking site would weigh its grandiose ambitions against persistent concerns over user privacy. One curious engineer took it upon himself to investigate the new system more carefully, and, as it turns out, Facebook flunked. Google ...

Share Facebook is getting ready to blanket the entire Web with its "like" functionality. According to TechCrunch, The Good Book will soon introduce tools for Web publishers to add deeper integration with Facebook. Though it may be the largest social network to spread across the Web, Twitter announced earlier this month at SXSW @anywhere, a similar idea that radically simplifies sharing Web ...