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- OpenSocial
- A programming interface API for social networking sites from Google. Introduced in 2007, it was created to allow social networking applications to run on more than one site. ...
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ZDNet Resources
- Marc Andreessen, past and present
- Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Andreessen talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Google’s OpenSocial.
- Tags: Marc Andreessen, Ning, OpenSocial, Facebook, Browser, Google, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Expo
- Videos 2008-04-24
- News to know: IBM's fear free enterprise; Everex Google PC; Vista security
- Notable headlines: Dan Farber: Everex delivers $198 err $199 Google-friendly PC. IBM touts enterprises free of fear and $1.5 billion security spend. Ed Bott: One year later, Vista really is more secure. AP: Cisco Announces $16B China Expansion...
- Tags: Security, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, PC, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Everex, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., OpenSocial, Nanotechnology, Data Centers, Keyboards, Virtualization, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Google's OpenSocial: What it means
- Google's open social networking platform play is the buzz of the blogosphere tonight. see Techmeme. Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create applications that work on any social network that joins Google's open party. So far, besides Google's Orkut social net, LinkedIn,...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Network, Goal, User, OpenSocial, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
Additional Resources
- MySpace Data Availability at Lunch 2.0
- This afternoon, Fox Interactive Media invited the tech community to its new San Francisco headquarters for free food, and an opportunity to network. Max Engel, product manager for the Data Availability project, spoke with me briefly about the new...
- Tags: MySpace, Social Networking, Food & Beverage, Corporate Communications, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Manufacturing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Is Facebook an open source hero or Microsoft clone?
- Neither. Facebook is a currently popular site with very personal information stuck in the crosshairs of dueling expectations. The Canadian Inquisition is, for all the heated rhetoric attached to it, not that big a deal. Canadian authorities want to use Facebook to set rules...
- Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Corp., Canadian Inquisition, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, Blogging, Channel Management, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- fbOpen: Facebook open-sources its Platform
- Facebook has gone ahead and open-sourced major parts of the Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers write applications for the site. "This release is just a first step in providing you a look into Facebook Platform, and we hope you'll help us iterate on and...
- Tags: Developer, Facebook, Open Source, Facebook Open Platform, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- AOL support for OpenSocial; Too many friends?; Gears to power MySpace messaging; Obama prefers Facebook
- AOL support for OpenSocial; Too many friends?; Gears to power MySpace messaging; Obama prefers Facebook$47,000Isn't $47,000 surprisingly small?
- Tags: Groupware, Google OpenSocial, Obama, Facebook, MySpace, messaging, America Online Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- AOL support for OpenSocial; Too many friends?; Gears to power MySpace messaging; Obama prefers Facebook
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… AOL announces support for OpenSocial. These days we can no longer talk in terms of 'company x' joining Google's OpenSocial, since the standard for creating socially...
- Tags: Facebook, Result, America Online Inc., Google OpenSocial, Messaging, MySpace, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud
- On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Live from Google I/O 2008
- An estimated 2500+ developers descended on Moscone West today as Google started its first (annual?) Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The two day conference drew folks from all over the world. While I was waiting in line for registration, I met a...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google App Engine, Performance Management, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Facebook to open source its developer platform?
- While it's not yet official, TechCrunch reports that Facebook is planning to open source its Facebook Platform, the means by which third-party developers can build applications for the social networking site. In a direct response to Google's 'combine and conquer strategy' with Open Social, Facebook will turn...
- Tags: Facebook, Social Networking, Open Source, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Microsoft opens philosophical can of worms with Live Search Cashback
- Talk is bubbling up across the blogosphere, Gillmor Gang and Techmeme daily about social graph personal information. This may be among the most important discussions and topics of our time. How the "social mesh" works out now will affect our lives and businesses for a long time. It may even...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Data, Agreement, Commerce, Microsoft Corp., Worm, Data Portability, Channel Management, Marketing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect
- A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Google kicks off its Facebook ground war
- Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Official: Google's 'Friend Connect' brings social networking to the Long Tail
- In case you didn't think Google wanted to be a big player on the Social Web -- Orkut, Google Talk and shared items in Google Reader aside -- the search giant revealed an ambitious new strategy today: 'Friend Connect' is a platform designed to help the 'long tail' of sites...
- Tags: Long Tail, Google Inc., Network, Friend Connect, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Enterprise 2.0 industry matures as businesses grapple with its potential
- Some of the big IT news over the weekend was the announcement that Forrester predicts that the Enterprise 2.0 space will be a $4.6 billion industry within 5 years. ZDNet's Larry Dignan had the full breakdown yesterday on Forresters bullish outlook while Dennis Howlett immediately took umbrage with...
- Tags: Software, Application, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 Industry, Enterprise 2.0 Tool, Self-service, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Web 2.0 success stories driving WOA and informing SOA
- The striking contrast between the stories that we've been hearing lately about the slow going of SOA initiatives in the enterprise and the vibrant and rapidly growing ecosystems similar to them on the consumer Web has been generating a lot of debate and discussion in the enterprise IT community recently....
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Channel Management, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Google App Engine creation process live on Twitter
- I'm watching Dion Hinchcliffe and a small group of other observers and developers create a Google App Engine GAE application live via Twitter. We're on the cutting edge of using social media and near-real time collaboration tools free to learn and use GAE for free, and then...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Twitter, App, Google Accounts, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-12
- Is Facebook a PaaS contender?
- Nate Westheimer's observation about Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon set me thinking. Should Facebook's F8 platform be considered a contender in the platform-as-a-service wars? Since my perspective is firmly on PaaS in the business world rather than as a consumer play, Facebook isn't really...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, PaaS, App Engine, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- 52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O
- On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...
- Tags: Google Inc., I/O, Python Community, Steve, Programming Languages, Performance Management, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
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