Build and Publish Web Sites with Popfly Explorer Beta
Nov 09, 2007
I’m back in Seattle after attending TechEd Europe earlier in the week. It was an absolute blast and thanks to everyone who came to the overflowed Popfly session! Tony Goodhew and I did demos in Soma’s keynote, check out Patrik and Andrew’s blogs for a recap on the keynote: Patrik Lowendahl’s: Live from the keynote with Somasegar * Andrew Woodward: TechEd 2007 EMEA keynote In my demo, I showed off **AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft **(separate post on that later) and the now-available Popfly Explorer.…more
Popfly Goes Public!
Oct 18, 2007
What an exciting time, the whole Popfly team has been working on towards our open beta announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit just a few hours ago and I was lucky enough to demo Popfly in action with John Battelle and Steve Ballmer on stage (see Barron’s blog for a full write-up). Want to pimp your blog? Try adding a few of our pre-built Silverlight applications, click customize on the links below and add a little bling to your blog.…more
Not all Facebook data is in a "Walled Garden"
Aug 02, 2007
The Facebook is a “Walled Garden” meme continues today with a post from pal Robert Scoble that continues the assumption that all Facebook data is somehow “locked” into Facebook. Here’s a quick snippet: _First, let’s go back to Facebook. Why does everyone say it’s a “walled garden?” Because you can’t get to data stored on Facebook unless you’re a Facebook member. Two days ago I did a video for Chris Pirillo on Facebook.…more
Rubber Ducks Everywhere
Jul 17, 2007
First it was John’s story about a fleet of 29,000 rubber ducks that are “invading” the UK after being at sea for 15 year’s and traveling over 17,000 miles. Then Tim Heuer made me a Simpson’s Popfly avatar with the very cool online Simpson’s Avatar creator tool as part of their promotion for the Simpson’s movie. Now, as Aaron mentioned, a group of French artists have created a massive rubber ducky…more
Facebook F8 Event Photos
May 24, 2007
Mark Zuckerberg kicking things off Some insane stats, 12MM people return daily, 24+ million users, 40 billion page views Facebook provides you a Canvas that you can do anything with including full ASP.NET or Popfly applications Dan’l Lewin, Microsoft Corporate Vice President talking about Popfly and Visual Studio Express
Microsoft + Facebook Partnership
May 24, 2007
Today at Facebook F8, Corporate Vice President Dan’l Lewin announced a new partnership between Microsoft and Facebook. * Popfly Facebook Block: Available immediately, we’ve added the Facebook block which prodices access to Facebook data including the User Profile, Friends, Photos, Photo Albums, and Events. * Leverage Existing Blocks: You can build Facebook applications using Popfly blocks like Flickr, Digg, Soapbox, Twitter, Windows Live, Xbox Live, and Virtual Earth. * Silverlight Support: Another big win here is Facebook has native support for Easily build next generation applications using Silverlight.…more
Microsoft Launches Popfly
May 18, 2007
A lot of long hours and hard work later, we officially launched Popfly as a private alpha!! What the heck is it? Popfly is the fun, easy way for anyone to build and share mashups, gadgets, Web pages, and applications. Popfly consists of two parts: Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups. Popfly Space is an online community of creators where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users.…more