Twitdom is an attempt to provide a consolidated view of all the applications developed for the Twitter ecosystem. It has been developed by Anuj Seth. Follow me on Twitter. This is to ensure that you can make the most effective use of the Twitter micro-blogging system. You can search for applications and submit new ones to the database as well.
10 Great Implementations of Facebook Connect January 12, 2009 - 9:39 am PDT - by Ben Parr Facebook Connect mania has swept the Internet! Why create an account on a random website when you can click a single button to join? That is the power of Facebook Connect, which allows websites, software, and even mobile devices to integrate with Facebook and send information both ways. The last few months have been very busy ones for developers as they furiously integrated their websites with Facebook Connect. But a few implementations have stood out against the rest. Some are on this list because of the seamlessness of their integration, while others for their usefulness.
Traditional methods for protecting community from the effects of scale and poor behavior are now manifestly unfeasible. Raising barriers to entry, relying on the assumption that users will maintain only one registered account, and placing faith in the ability of admins and user moderation to reproduce a forum's organic culture are all easily circumvented, gamed, and/or ineffective when faced with the problems of scale. Moreover, they tend to reinforce self-destructive behaviors, by increasing returns to the most persistent rather than the most constructive, reinforcing groupthink, and providing ample targets for trolling and griefing. This article attempts to fundamentally rethink what constitutes community and society on the web, and what possibilities exist for their maintenance and reconstruction in the face of scale and malicious users. The recommendations reached, after analyzing the weaknesses of the web forums we all know and love