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Yahoo's SearchMonkey Comes Out To Play

Want to "have a hand in shaping the next generation of search"?  Or at least pad your wallet with ten thousand dollars?  Yahoo has opened its new SearchMonkey platform to all developers, and at the same time, announced the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge.

Fire Eagle Makes Friends During Developer Evening

Any event that involves free pizza and beer can't be bad, but a recent Yahoo-sponsored get-together seemed especially successful, and this could bode well for the company's location-based Fire Eagle service.

Developers Asked To Play In iGoogle Sandbox

In a recent post that was about 125 words long, a Googler included the term "social" four times.  Keep Facebook, MySpace, and whatever else you like in mind, then, while learning about a new developer sandbox for iGoogle.

Flickr Gives Developers A Friendly Nudge

There's a bit of a conceptual gap between code and pretty pictures, so we wouldn't have guessed that there would be a lot of overlap between the developer and photographer crowds.  Still, Flickr's going to see how many people it can serve with a new developer website and blog.

Report: Google's Developer Share Growing

We often think of it as a search engine, an email provider, or even a source of income, but a new report states that, as a developer, Google is also doing reasonably well.

Facebook Delays Profile Redesign

Anyone sitting on the edge of his seat in anticipation of Facebook's redesigned profiles should probably lean back a bit; their release has been delayed until "later this spring," according to the company.

Facebook Tsks-Tsks Over Unfair Reviews, Fake Accounts

Given the number of Facebook apps in existence, allowing for reviews of them seemed like a good way of tracking which ones worked.  Fake reviews have become an issue, though, and Facebook's attempts to address the problem haven't been too effective.

Google Developer Event Announced

May 28th and May 29th appear to be pretty quiet days - on a national level, there shouldn't be any major events or holidays.  So, although we know not everyone will be able to attend, Google seems to have picked a good period in which to hold a developer gathering.

Facebook Gives Developers More Details

It's too early to say how users will feel about upcoming changes to Facebook's profile pages.  Developers can start applauding or protesting the revision, however, thanks to a number of details that have been released.

Social Media Architects and Developers

[I wanted to post some quick thoughts here which I think put today's Voce news in some additional context...] So in my previous post, I touched on an observation, a belief really, that there's a widening gap within this bubbling ecosystem of social media practitioners.