Social Innovation Camp is like a BarCamp, but with a difference. It pits web designers and developers against various social issues, and gives them 48 hours to produce a solution. Not only does the social web enable individuals to create things for themselves, but as increasing numbers of people use the web in this way, the network that they are building becomes more than the sum of its individual ... Read full entry

MySpace to further open site to outside developers. It seems struggling social network MySpace has determined that allowing the development of applications, which are all the rage (or mostly all the rage) at arch rival Facebook, is the way to boost its flagging fortunes. By creating a formal developers' program, MySpace plans to give programmers "deeper access" to the site and the ability to "build richer applications as ... Read full entry

How To Build A Facebook Application. What the world needs now is a couple of useful Facebook applications (if that isn't an oxymoron), so if you're up to the task Gareth Rushgrove has written a "how-to" article just for you. We're going to jump straight in to a full-blown application rather than start with a simple, but pretty useless, "Hello World" example. The application is called Birthdays Book, and ... Read full entry