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Brilliant scraping to update your Facebook status from elsewhere via A Frog in the Valley August 22nd, 2007 at 16:02

image After reading on Fred Wilson’s blog about Moodblast I also stumbled upon applescript and php clever twists to update your Facebook status by going the screen scrape route with m.facebook.com… nice! I am also tepted to call this reverse-scraping as the result is not pulling data out but pushing some in. Well, it is the only way to scrape stuff from Facebook too, but that’s not what *this* post is about! ;-) Tags: atomization, loosely-joined, programming, facebook, social, twitter...

SMS is the new MP3. Less is more. ASCII wins again. Etc. via A Frog in the Valley April 26th, 2007 at 13:55

image After the success of Twitter (twitter is the new flickr) and the instant realisation to several thousands of alpha-geeks and creative webheads at SXSW that SMS could be micro-blogging as well as a social command line (and I hereby claim this meme). SMS did not need twitter to catch the heart of the geekerati, but it became a clear demonstration that mobile was a major platform for social app (it’s all about the flow - thanks Stowe!). Seventh mass media or innovation minefield? As often, the truth lies somewhere in between. I must say that the Kakiloc demo at the last democamp in Montreal opened my eyes on the command line aspect of it all. Their “dot-k-dot” commands instantly invoked for me the terminal culture, the browser location bar as the web command line and...