Xooxia Development

We all get used to our favorite browser and it’s tough to get anyone to change to something new. (Otherwise, not a person in the world would be using IE!). I’ve been using FireFox for quite a while now for a few reasons. For one, the enhancement capabilities with add-ons. I use Firebug, the web developer toolbar, etc. on a regular basis. When I got up this morning, I never thought I would be testing another browser to replace my beloved FireFox.

However, I was looking over my new feeds for the day and Smashing Magazine had a list of ‘Interesting browsers you have never heard of’ and found one that I thought I’d take a look at.

Flock - The Social Web Browser

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Wow, when you think of anything that has had a huge impact on the web-savvy community, you’d have to first think of Social Bookmarking. It’s the equivalent of calling all of your friends, relatives, adversaries, acquaintances and everyone else in the world with an internet connection and telling them that you’ve just read a great story, then reading the story to them and letting them offer their comments. However, you don’t have to sit on the phone, coffee in one hand and donut in the other, talking for days on end to get your message out. Social Bookmarking was conceived from the well-known ‘Favorites’ folder on your PC. If you’re saving a page to your favorites, wouldn’t your friends be interested in that page as well? Wouldn’t others? What if there was a way to save all of your favorites with comments and allow all of your friends to see what you’ve saved - and then make comments of their own? That’s the whole notion of Social Bookmarking. Read the rest of this entry »

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Google has released version 0.5 of the OpenSocial API. It’s basically a standards based method to write gadgets that can be available to any site that implements the API. What this means for developers is that you’re able to write a gadget once and it can be included in various sites that use OpenSocial. I’ve been tinkering with some of the patterns relevant to social networking, even beginning a small project with a co-worker, and have just begun researching OpenSocial.

In a quick example of what OpenSocial can be used to develop, let’s say that you are a member of an online social network. We’ll call it myNet. Within myNet, you have listed about 45 others as ‘friends’ in your network, so you’re able to send/receive messages to each of them, see what news stories they have commented on, see what pages they’ve recently bookmarked, etc. You have quite a bit of functionality available in myNet. The developers within myNet have given you quite a few options that you can customize to meet your needs. However, you’re also a member Read the rest of this entry »

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