Items tagged with bradfitzpatrick

Link // 05.28.2008 // 4 PM // 0 CommentsUsing memcache with Google App Engine

You can now use memcached with Google’s App Engine. Sweet. Visit site »

Link // 10.31.2007 // 10:13 AM // 0 CommentsGoogle Announces the OpenSocial API

You sort of knew this would happen with Brad Fitzpatrick joined Google, but I certainly didn’t expect it to be this soon. Awesome — can’t wait to see where this goes. Visit site »

Link // 08.17.2007 // 7:08 PM // 0 CommentsSocial Network Portability: Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph

In my opinion, social network portability is probably the single most important hurdle our Web needs to get over. Tackling it is also probably the single most ambitious Web project someone could take one. Luckily, Brad Fitzpatrick — who has already led the development of the tool that solved all your scalability problems (memcahced) and the tool that solved all your username/password problems (OpenID) — is probably the single most smartest person on this here global network, and he’s on the job.

Now, I feel confident this will actually happen. Maybe not soon — but it will happen. Visit site »