Misuse & abuse- Is this killing you?

Misuse & abuse- Is this killing you?
Hey guys, One thing I can't abide is people who are tied to their cell phones, PDA's, and lap tops. Instead of increasing productivity, people misuse and abuse them, killing their productivity. When one beeps, their "owner" comes running like…
Source: www.johnalanis.com

How to broadcast a “tractor beam” that pulls women right to you
Hey guys, When I started this womenapproachyou business exactly four years ago, it was mostly about building "automatic attraction systems"–autopilot systems that put you in a position where women were forced to come to you due to the environment. Now,…
Source: www.johnalanis.com

Starting a Dating Site: Implementing OAuth, MySpace API’s
This article is part of a series concerned with building, launching, maintaining and growing dating sites. Found an article about figuring out the optimal startup burn rate. New technical term of the week: Dogpiling. If you are planning, running or about to launch a dating site there are several new initiatives that directly affect your ability to cost-effectively […]

This article is part of a series concerned with building, launching, maintaining and growing dating sites.

Found an article about figuring out the optimal startup burn rate.
New technical term of the week: Dogpiling.

If you are planning, running or about to launch a dating site there are several new initiatives that directly affect your ability to cost-effectively acquire customers from other sites.

If you're interested in leading edge social dating functionality and their underlying technologies and reducing customer acquisition costs, read on.

ReadWriteWeb says application developers should be tripping over each other to make use of this (oAuth) data so that our use of their apps can be made richer, more powerfully useful and engaging.

There is now no good reason for new applications to ask you for your Gmail username and password in order to access your list of contacts. Don't give it to them - there's a standard, approved way for them to access that data now that doesn't require giving them unlimited access to your entire account.

Apps that don't use the approved Google user authentication method in short order will be acting like a mail carrier who says they have to have a key to the inside of your house to pick up your mail because they aren't familiar with the mailbox on the front porch.

Recently Myspace announced the were opening up the service via Data Availability. Any third party developer can now build applications using their APIs. See developer.myspace.com for the details. Of particular interest is the article Why is MySpace doing OpenSocial.

Am I the only one who has been confused by all of the data-sharing announcements of late? It's incredibly difficult to track all of the announcements, separate what's solid and mission-ready as opposed to the marketing chaff companies tend to throw off.

If you have a large site with a complicated infrastructure and dread the idea of opening up the hood, this stuff probably isn't for you.

If you have a small site and don't have access to a reliable programmer, natch. Unfortunately this is most often the case with readers who contact me. Site gets built, developers takes off.

So we stand at a cross-roads. Most dating sites are not equipped to implement many of these API's. Widgets are closer to reality for most.

What's your site doing with the new trend towards openness?

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My Morning On Match.com
I was greeted with these error messages while browsing Match this morning. The ongoing downtime at Match is unacceptable for a service I'm paying for. This isn't an overloaded social network with a million features, it's a dating site, albeit a large one but they have had years to get this working properly, it's not […]

I was greeted with these error messages while browsing Match this morning. The ongoing downtime at Match is unacceptable for a service I'm paying for. This isn't an overloaded social network with a million features, it's a dating site, albeit a large one but they have had years to get this working properly, it's not like the site is growing much lately here in the US.

Is it the fault of Microsoft products or the IT department not pulling it's weight?

I wish they would redirect some of their enormous marketing budget into doing a better job fighting spam and fixing the site. Match is almost as broken as Twitter these days.

Never in my life have I seen an error message telling me to reload the previous page. "Keep trying, if you stand on your left leg and wave your hands in the air maybe it will work."

Source: feeds.feedburner.com

Misuse & abuse- Is this killing you?
Hey guys, One thing I can't abide is people who are tied to their cell phones, PDA's, and lap tops. Instead of increasing productivity, people misuse and abuse them, killing their productivity. When one beeps, their "owner" comes running like…
Source: www.johnalanis.com

How to broadcast a “tractor beam” that pulls women right to you
Hey guys, When I started this womenapproachyou business exactly four years ago, it was mostly about building "automatic attraction systems"–autopilot systems that put you in a position where women were forced to come to you due to the environment. Now,…
Source: www.johnalanis.com

Starting a Dating Site: Implementing OAuth, MySpace API’s
This article is part of a series concerned with building, launching, maintaining and growing dating sites. Found an article about figuring out the optimal startup burn rate. New technical term of the week: Dogpiling. If you are planning, running or about to launch a dating site there are several new initiatives that directly affect your ability to cost-effectively […]

This article is part of a series concerned with building, launching, maintaining and growing dating sites.

Found an article about figuring out the optimal startup burn rate.
New technical term of the week: Dogpiling.

If you are planning, running or about to launch a dating site there are several new initiatives that directly affect your ability to cost-effectively acquire customers from other sites.

If you're interested in leading edge social dating functionality and their underlying technologies and reducing customer acquisition costs, read on.

ReadWriteWeb says application developers should be tripping over each other to make use of this (oAuth) data so that our use of their apps can be made richer, more powerfully useful and engaging.

There is now no good reason for new applications to ask you for your Gmail username and password in order to access your list of contacts. Don't give it to them - there's a standard, approved way for them to access that data now that doesn't require giving them unlimited access to your entire account.

Apps that don't use the approved Google user authentication method in short order will be acting like a mail carrier who says they have to have a key to the inside of your house to pick up your mail because they aren't familiar with the mailbox on the front porch.

Recently Myspace announced the were opening up the service via Data Availability. Any third party developer can now build applications using their APIs. See developer.myspace.com for the details. Of particular interest is the article Why is MySpace doing OpenSocial.

Am I the only one who has been confused by all of the data-sharing announcements of late? It's incredibly difficult to track all of the announcements, separate what's solid and mission-ready as opposed to the marketing chaff companies tend to throw off.

If you have a large site with a complicated infrastructure and dread the idea of opening up the hood, this stuff probably isn't for you.

If you have a small site and don't have access to a reliable programmer, natch. Unfortunately this is most often the case with readers who contact me. Site gets built, developers takes off.

So we stand at a cross-roads. Most dating sites are not equipped to implement many of these API's. Widgets are closer to reality for most.

What's your site doing with the new trend towards openness?

Source: feeds.feedburner.com

My Morning On Match.com
I was greeted with these error messages while browsing Match this morning. The ongoing downtime at Match is unacceptable for a service I'm paying for. This isn't an overloaded social network with a million features, it's a dating site, albeit a large one but they have had years to get this working properly, it's not […]

I was greeted with these error messages while browsing Match this morning. The ongoing downtime at Match is unacceptable for a service I'm paying for. This isn't an overloaded social network with a million features, it's a dating site, albeit a large one but they have had years to get this working properly, it's not like the site is growing much lately here in the US.

Is it the fault of Microsoft products or the IT department not pulling it's weight?

I wish they would redirect some of their enormous marketing budget into doing a better job fighting spam and fixing the site. Match is almost as broken as Twitter these days.

Never in my life have I seen an error message telling me to reload the previous page. "Keep trying, if you stand on your left leg and wave your hands in the air maybe it will work."

Source: feeds.feedburner.com