I don't see anyone blogs about this therefore I have to write about it myself.
Friendster is offline for more than 36 hours out of last 48 and it is still offline right now.
Myspace applications are "down for maintenance" for more than 10 hours now and counting...
Cubics is down for maintenance. Obviously cubics takes advantage on myspace and friendster outage to fix their stuff. Hope so...
Google Adsense has had unstable reporting during yesterday. Google Adsense was not available at all for 1 hour and has had some delay reporting clicks while reporting impressions from midnight PST.
Myspace and Friendster folks — this is so unprofessional. Sad :(
Fosimo 1.0 is available for download. Fosimo is a Facebook desktop client for windows. It's 1.5 year now since Fosimo initial release.
New in Fosimo 1.0
Overall it is just a catch up to recent changes made by Facebook. Since previous version was 0.9.9 I had had no other choice to jump to 1.0 version :)
Here are some key features of Fosimo:
Monitor friends online presence and status changes.
View friends details.
Synchronize Facebook friends with matching OUTLOOK contacts. For windows mobile devices owners - you should be able to see your contacts photos on your phone display.
Upload photos without surfing through Facebook.
Change Facebook status.
Be notified on invites and changes to your account.
Let's talk about some dynamic content in HTML. Suppose we have a div:
< div id="div1">< /div>
And we need to render an image dynamically from inside this div (for example during page load). The small trick I'd like to share is to use width and height attributes for this image (even when we use original size without stretching the image). Like so:
Today music video is by Einstürzende Neubauten, a german group which is active for more than 25 years now. I remember myself listening to Einstürzende A LOT 10-12 years ago. The band name means self-collapsing new buildings in english.
Their style has been most of the time hard industrial avant-garde. They used custom-build metal instruments and used scraping them.
The following music composition has a bit more conservative sound and is called "Nagorny Karabach". Nagorny Karabach refers to anclave in Armenia which can be translated as black garden.
As on every Saturday this is a music post. Todays music video is created by Patrick Bunton from Hamburg, Germany. The style he performs is called "hardstyle" (More info).
The following music video is called "Young Birds":
Facebook platform does not care about their developers community.
"Facebook API" is not backward compatible. They deprecate methods every week.
Facebook platform is overregulated and unfair to a "small guy".
At the end of the day they will eat their own lunch. It means that they will eventually start to loose money with bad advertising CPMs. Or they already started, didn't they? Thanks god, we (developers) have OpenSocial.
I think that Myspace development platform is much more developer friendly than that of Facebook these days. Mostly because:
Myspace developers participate in developer forums and are responsive. They answer questions and provide feedback to developers.
Myspace application gallery is of better quality due to relatively tough approval process (for example you need to approve each application change).
Myspace has more advertising friendly audience and as a result - better advertisers (and higher CPM).
There are still several obvious basic features Myspace platform should provide for developers. I think that top 3 of these features are:
New section in application gallery sorted by daily active users. Currently there is one section sorted by total installs which doesn't change much — first-movers large apps stay on top. Another section is called "Recently Popular" which means popular among recently submitted apps. Therefore good and popular applications are mostly invisible in the application gallery. Alphabetical section is useless obviously.
Revision of approval policy and process. There are several items in the policy which just don't make sense. One example - all canvas external links should open a new window. I don't mention the fact that all modern browsers support tab-browsing. Myspace folks responsible for approval click each and every ad placed on the canvas page which may cause problems to the publisher, not to mention that many ad platforms just open the ad in the same window.
Better support for iframes - we need support for numerous Myspace extensions to open social (like "invite friends" and "postto") available for external iframes.
Welcome again on Saturday music :) Sorry about missing 2 previous saturdays to post music on my blog - this is because I had been in Thailand and mostly offline.
Today's clip style I can categorize as industrial neofolk (or something like this :)). Ice Ages — This Killing Emptiness from 2000. Ice Ages is a sole creation of Richard Lederer.
