Weekly Wrap inc. #f8 #twitter #google #uncrunched #yam
This post is a wrap of this weeks stories in tech, social and mobile that caught my eye...
Facebook F8
The biggest event was of course the annual F8 Facebook conference.
New timeline profile view, and deeper interaction via new verb buttons were the highlight announcements. You can read about it here, here and the Spotify bit here.
F8 also inspired me to write my first ever tweet that anyone seems to have cared enough about to retweet it a whole bunch of times! If you know the developer hack, you can see my new Facebook timeline style profile page here.
Michael Arrington launches UNCRUNCHED
The fall out at TechCrunch continues with Michael Arrington launching his own site, UNCRUNCHED. You would have though he could have found a higher res photo ;-)
How to throw a REAL party
Call Scott Parker! Check out his recent Forbes cover story.
Google+ API
Lets hope finally exposing an API gives Google+ a shot in the arm, becuase frankly I think its the biggest pile of over hyped doo-doo since, er, Wave? Already a few services I use [Empire Avenue and Klout] have adopted the API, although judging from the results I'm not sure how useful the first version is.
CANT miss event in London
I hear a rumour that Jason Calacanis is the latest to sign up for this.
and to end...
Not one, but TWO shameless BlueVia plugs...
Firstly the rather exciting, some even called it seminal, news that Twitter has integrated into BlueVia's MMS API to allow O2 UK customers to upload photos into their Twitter timeline. Secondly if you are a developer in the UK, make sure you get involved with London Mobile Week. Over The Air 2011 kicks us off, and we are giving away £10,000 worth of free advertising spend as first prize. Yes we ARE that awesome!
James Parton
