Archive for February, 2008

Zero to One Million: Ryan Allis’ book, aspiring to be Amazon #1 Bestseller

Posted on February 6th, 2008 in General | 1 Comment »

Ryan Allis’s book Zero to One Million is on Amazon (currently #3 in bestsellers) and he’s hoping to make it #1. Ryan Allis is an entrepreneur at iContact and at only 23 he’s built a $4 million + sales company with more than 40 employees.

Check out his book and help make it #1! Just purchased a copy myself.

MySpace Developer Platform Launches: Worst API Ever

Posted on February 5th, 2008 in Web | No Comments »

fail
The MySpace Developer Platform has launched at developer.myspace.com, based on Google’s OpenSocial spec. As the largest social network, it is ridiculous that MySpace is building upon the OpenSocial API, which, in many peoples’ opinion (including my own), is used to build not applications, but widgets.

If you’re a Facebook Platform veteran, you’ll notice the following changes:

  • You create a separate profile for your application. Similar to Bebo.
  • You can set homepage markup, to be shown on peoples’ homepages.
  • There’s no callback URL.

That’s right - no callback URL. Here is how you build your application:

I’m not too impressed. Job terribly done.