Web Services

Facebook Connect: Login’s Made Easy

by Michael Morris January 5, 2010

Facebook Connect integration on websites as a login method is becoming more and more popular everyday. With a large user base ranging in the millions, Facebook offers a great median for websites who want to provide interactive content while also requiring a form of identification without forcing a user to keep track of multiple user [...]

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Meebo Launches the Meebo Bar for Everyone

by Jeff Weisbein December 21, 2009

A few months back, I partnered with Meebo to implement the Meebo Bar on BestTechie which allowed users to login to their IM accounts directly from BestTechie. It also allowed users to quickly share content on the site itself via social networks and other services such as Facebook, Twitter, Email, IM, and Yahoo Updates. I [...]

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What Happens When Short URL’s Are No Longer Short?

by Jeff Weisbein November 13, 2009

In a place where every character counts, URL Shortening services such as bit.ly have been gaining a lot of popularity. Web services such as Twitter which limit you to 140 characters of text per tweet (including spaces) have helped the development of these URL Shortening services. For example, TinyURL which was once just a simple [...]

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Bubble Comment Review

by Jeff Weisbein January 6, 2009

Bubble Comment is a neat service which allows you to leave a video comment (if it doesn’t play right away, click replay) on almost any website. Occasionally, I find myself wanting to leave a comment on a website, blog post, or forum thread but text just doesn’t get my point across correctly. This is where [...]

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