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Introducing Friends!
The Friends Service provides an API for interacting with your social networks. The friends service uses microblogging accounts configured in Ubuntu Online Accounts. Currently there are friends plugins for facebook, twitter, flickr, foursquare and identica. Sound familiar? Friends is actually … Continue reading
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Gwibber logo concepts, opinions?
I’ve had a number of people suggest Gwibber could use a new logo, but nobody has actually stepped up and designed anything. Recently I had the good fortune to chat with Abi Rasheed on IRC who volunteered to help. He … Continue reading
Social Networking in Ubuntu 11.10
Today I hosted an Ubuntu Open Week session on social networking in Ubuntu 11.10. I decided to convert my notes from the session into a blog post, enjoy! Ubuntu includes a social networking desktop service, Gwibber. Gwibber isn’t new to … Continue reading
Gwibber and Facebook, call for help!
For some time now I have been struggling with getting Gwibber working reliably with facebook. Since Gwibber was included by default in Ubuntu, usage has gone way up and we quickly exceeded our API request allocation with Facebook. Facebook allocations … Continue reading
I love what I do!
When people ask me what I do, I frequently answer with “The same thing I would do if I didn’t need to work for a living”. I feel so lucky to have the opportunity to work full time on free … Continue reading
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Introducing libgwibber, lets make the Desktop social!
For a while now I have wanted to make it easier for desktop applications to integrate more with social networks, enabling users to easily interact with their friends in many different contexts. Could be posting a status update based on … Continue reading