Your Personal API (February 6th, 2010 - 2,837)

Everyone has a Personal API these days. I put my photos on flickr, my messages on twitter, my location on dopplr, my places on foursquare, my bookmarks on delicious, my music on last.fm, and they’re just the regular ones let alone everything else. Your mix of APIs might look slightly different, but that is what [...]

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Game Mechanics: Putting the Fun in Functional (June 14th, 2009 - 4,115)

Games themselves are nothing new, they have been around for thousands of years – so it makes sense that we have figured out what makes them work. Game designers know which elements they need to include to make a game truly addictive, and if you can apply those same ideas to social web design you [...]

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