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In one sense, the Open Graph is an expanded, enhanced social graph. It’s coded into every action we take on Facebook and on the multitude of sites that have Facebook features integrated. Social graphs (or sociograms) have been around before the Open Graph. Essentially, they methodically organize the online relationships between individuals, objects, images, videos, preferences, etc., and the actions people take on each object.

With developers using Facebook’s Open Graph on websites and apps all over the web, users activities are becoming more social because the graph is automatically publishing a lot of activities on other websites and apps (like reading an article on huffpo) into the Facebook News feed or Timeline.

In the WordPress community many advocate using as few plugins as possible for each WordPress CMS installation. There are a several good reasons for this practice. Because we believe in the philosophy we are announcing a new category/topic for this blog “Extend WordPress”. We thought it was

Michigan passed a bill on Friday that prohibits employers and schools from asking employees and students for login information to their personal social media accounts. House Bill 5523, signed by Governor Rick Snyder and introduced by state Rep. Aric Nesbitt, “prohibit[s] employers and educational institutions from requiring

The online wholesale marketplace, Joor was created by Bijoor In March 2010. They are connecting fashion brands and designers. Again leveling the playing field. The high-end, luxury and niche product’s markets will be much better served from these types of services. Name: Joor Quick Pitch: An online marketplace that connects fashion

Bob Dylan hasn’t been a huge fan of technology. In 2006, he complained to Rolling Stone that no one had made a record that sounded decent in the last 20 years because of modern recording techniques and that “CDs are small. There’s no stature to it.” So

With Knowledge Comes Power...

Because Google is distinguishing intent and context of each query there may come a time in the future when Google is able to understand us better than we understand ourselves. The value of knowledge graph results are high because it provides deeper context than flat information (text across multiple sites) and gives users an efficiency tool to find information that is considered highly accurate = knowledge.

 Time To Reprogram Your Twitter Automation’s Twitter has announced that they are altering their policies. Specifically policies that govern the way people and 3rd party applications can interact with their data. Previously you were able to use a 3rd party application to push a tweet from your twitter

Whether you are just starting your foray into Email for marketing or are considering changing Email Service Providers you need to make a few considerations before firing a ESP or sending to everyone in your database. Send Grid is a cloud-based SMTP provider that allows you to send email

M2M or the Internet of things is a technology which is more frequently being integrated into applications for logistics and fleet tracking, home automation systems, retail Point of Sale (POS) systems and more. M2M is a major contributor to the creation of physical graph data. Currently this

Makeing our objects smart and connecting to the physical graph has obvious benefits and alarming concerns.

We have been using YOURLS to create our own bit.ly type service. We are thinking of opening it up to the public. Let us know in the comments what features you expect in a link shortening service?