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I actually took this from production code!

I’ve had it with events in ActionScript 3! They are annoying to structure, annoying to extend, annoying to dispatch but most importantly annoying to consume – and I consume events a lot more than write or dispatch my own.

But! The idea of listening for stuff I really do like. I have some ideas about how this could be done a lot easier. Oh, and please stick around until the very end of this post.

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Well, yes and no. Actually I do like Facebook, but this is about the new Like-button and how you can like anything. But what’s the difference between “approved” partners and the rest of us?

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The famous large flat thing slightly more useful than a rock

Here at Konstellation, we just launched the PageGangster for mobile devices including iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Android. I developed the clientside for this in JavaScript and we launched it with automatic user agent detection serverside. But this had some problems.

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I recently found, that vimeo.com had a cross-domain policy, that allowed anyone to connect, which was an open invitation for CSRF attacks. I alerted them to the issue, and it has now been fixed.

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The twenty-nineth idea for my 365 social ideas is a classic mashup: CatScanner, a charting application and the New York Times Article Search. The charting application could very likely be the previously mentioned Infographic Charting Service for better results (it could actually be built into this service) or it could be build stand-alone using any classic charting API like Google Charts.

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The twenty-eighth idea for my 365 social ideas is about the open web and about “forcing” classic websites to export their data. Imagine sites with lots of useful information, that is frequently updated, but is hidden away behind forms, in PDF’s or in hard-to-scrape tables. Then imagine a website, where you could provide this address, and give it some guidance as to how to input data in forms and how to interpret the results. And then imagine, that this website would act as a proxy with this interaction described as a simple, queryable API and then behind the scenes would fetch data from the original website.

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The twenty-sixth idea for my 365 social ideas is a new brand of charting service: A service designed for infographics, but with sharing, collaboration and synergy as an added side-effect.

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The twenty-fifth idea for my 365 social ideas is a small simple idea: use Facebook notes or images combined with tags to display results of games. For instance, imagine a chess game, post the result of the game as a note on the game’s page with the final board, all moves made during the game and both players tagged. Or simply post the final board as an image and tag both players as well.

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The twenty-fourth idea for my 365 social ideas is an idea for websites dealing in larger commodities like furniture, cars or even houses: Add private comments to the pages, that can be easily shared with friends and family, as this type of purchase is not something you do instantly, but spend time deciding.

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The twenty-third idea for my 365 social ideas is a very simple one: Wrap a Safari browser in a Mac OS X application that opens on Google Docs as the first (and only) website you can see.

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