Facebook’s platform isn’t as open as I’d been led to believe. They are apparently turning down librarian’s applications to create library catalog search tools that integrate with the site. This reinforces that we really need open, neutral standards!
Pownce is the kind of name that makes you want to jump up and down on things. It’s a new Twitter/Ning hybrid app that is lovely, lets you share files and links with subsets of contacts, and has an RSS feed of the action — but no API as yet.
For those interested in how web applications work, this great interview with Leah Culver, the founder, reveals that the application runs on a LAMP stack where the P is Python with Django.
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