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Comment Facebook Platform (Score 1) 231

by ichthyos on Monday August 06, 2007 @02:52PM (#20132897) Attached to: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up

FTFA: Facebook would be better if you could link to friends' pages on MySpace and Bebo. The Facebook Platform lets you do just that. I recently made a flickr account and wanted to share those photos with my Facebook friends, so I used the "My Flickr" app to add a section in my Facebook profile that showed thumbnails from my flickr stream and provided a link to my flickr URL. I was also able to view which of my friends had added the app and added them as contacts on flickr. This was all made possible because flickr and Facebook both have APIs for developers.

Ares I Rocket Rumored To Be Too Heavy 165

Posted by Hemos on Monday November 20, 2006 @12:25PM from the hard-time-getting-it-up dept.

eldavojohn writes "In an article entitled "Constellation Battles the Blogosphere," problems with the Ares I lift vehicle are dispelled by NASA. An e-mail containing the rumor that the payload was a metric ton too heavy spurred this post which caused a lot of sidelines speculation that NASA might be setting themselves up for failure and simply need to start over. From the article, '[M]any who carp from the sidelines do not seem to understand the systems engineering process. They instead want to sensationalize any issue to whatever end or preferred outcome they wish," wrote Jeff Hanley the NASA official leading the development of the rockets and spacecraft the United States is building to replace the space shuttle and to return to the Moon.' The article also mentions that NASA looked at 10,000 to 20,000 different iterations of designs in their "Exploration Systems Architecture Study." As armchair speculators of space exploration, do our posts & blogs create negative fallout for NASA or is public criticism like this healthy for keeping government agencies in line?"

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