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Third Party Integration

Third Party Integration

Jun 21, 2012

One of the most transitive aspects of the social web, or web 2.0 for lack of a better term, is the proliferation of third party integration. At one time it would be considered treason to heavily integrate another website’s functionality into your own. As the Internet becomes more social, the focus is moving away from competing with the existing hosts of...

My First Social Network: A Modern Developer’s Right of Passage

My First Social Network: A Modern Developer’s Right of Passage

May 7, 2012

For the last couple months, I’ve been the primary developer for a new social network with a unique spin on dating. While I have gained quite a bit of knowledge and experience from this project, I feel like I have also seen the direct results of making the wrong moves when it comes to dealing with users, and specifically site features. Even though there was...