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FriendFeed, the glue for social networks

Dan Farber and Rafe Needleman interview Bret Taylor, co-founder of FriendFeed.com, a Web site that enables friends to instantly share and discuss everything they find interesting on the Internet.

Tags: Glue, Network, Rafe Needleman, Internet, Social Networking, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, News, Dan Farber, Bret Taylor, webware, friendfeed, twitter, social networking

Videos 2008-06-25

FriendFeed's meteoric rise

CNET News.com's Dan Farber talks with FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor about new features coming in his fast-rising content-discovery and social-networking service, and how it compares with the likes of Twitter.

Tags: News. dan farber, twitter, friendfeed, social networking, Bret Taylor

Videos 2008-06-05

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Tornado: The real-time web server from Facebook

Facebook is known for creating evolutionary software to keep up with its ever-growing userbase, and then giving away the recipe for developers to play with. Their latest is called Tornado. It's the framework that Friendfeed was built on. It focuses on real-time web services, namely connections...

Tags: Web Server, Web, Facebook, Server, Channel Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-09-24

A Semantic view of the Wikipedia for Data idea

Last week CNet's Dan Farber picked up on a post by ex-Googler Bret Taylor, entitled 'We need a Wikipedia for data.' Sarah Perez followed up on ReadWriteWeb with a useful roundup in 'Where to find Open Data on the Web,' and the usual flurry of interested individuals commented on each....

Tags: Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-04-14

Yang%3A+No+decisions+made+on+Microsoft+bid%3B+Tells+troops+to+stay+focused

Yang%3A+No+decisions+made+on+Microsoft+bid%3B+Tells+troops+to+stay+focusedPretty smart move. No matter how much he might hate MS, he knows that hehas to do what is right for shareholders, though that may not be best for employees. Well, really, the employees do not have to worry, they can move over to Google and other companies if/when that...

Tags: Workforce management, Financial accounting, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

In failure to 'get' the Internet, CBS Online digs its own grave

Back in April, I published a post under the headline What’s wrong with this CBS News story is also what’s wrong with the mainstream media. I left the question open to ZDNet readers to spot what was wrong with the story in question -- a story about a guy...

Tags: Entertainment, General, IT Management, Web technology

Blog posts 2007-05-31

Google: Tough love for Microsoft

"Because the Web is Google's platform, we are interested in improving it as much as we can," so intones Bret Taylor, the evangelist for Google's strategic developer initiatives.Google "owns" the Web experience, but to"improve" it, Google must go through the Microsoft-owned desktop, as I analyze in Google’s love hate relationship with the desktop.Does it gall...

Tags: Google, Google Software Applications, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-05-31

News to know: Google's developer's day; Novell details Microsoft pact; Alienware gallery

Notable headlines:Ed Burnette: Google Developer Day sneak peek with Bret Taylor.Russell Shaw: Google patent app shows extensive Google plans for mobile search.Dell Offers Three Consumer Systems With Ubuntu 7.04.Novell to detail Microsoft patent pact. Novell joins EFF for patent reform.Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Three more things that the Linux community doesn't get.Review:...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Google AJAX Feed API simplifies Web 2.0 mashups

Google is set to announce a new library today to help AJAX developers incorporate RSS and Atom feeds into their web sites. The Google AJAX Feed API will provide easy access to public data feeds through JavaScript.Until now, including data feeds in web applications has been a painful process involving...

Tags: Scripting, Programming, Java, Google, General, AJAX

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Attention all developers, Google wants to teach you something

The push is on -- Google desperately wants developers to use their wide range of products as a platform rather than simply a search engine. Sessions to be hosted in Google offices around the world will attempt to reel in some talented developers. After the 27 hour event...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Morfik defends its IP rights against Google

A couple of weeks ago Google released its Google Web Toolkit GWT and almost immediately there were rumors of an alliance between Google and Morfik, the Web OS vendor which has a Javascript converter as one of its main products. The reason? GWT bore more than a casual resemblance to...

Tags: JST, Morfik Technology Pty Ltd.

Blog posts 2006-05-30

Google fixes IE7 problem and others in new GWT release

It's only been a week since the first version came out, but already Google has released an updated version of its Java and Eclipse-based Google Web Toolkit GWT. Bret Taylor, GWT product manager, announced that version 1.0.21 is now available for download. This release fixes a number of problems with...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Web, Google Web Toolkit

Blog posts 2006-05-27

Google Developer Day sneak peek with Bret Taylor

Last month Google announced what will likely become an annual event -- a Google Developer Day that will take place in 10 cities around the world on May 31st. Despite the short notice, thousands of developers have already signed up for the free event, according to Bret Taylor, Group Product...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2006-05-24

Google Web Toolkit released - rumors of Morfik alliance?

Google Web Toolkit released - rumors of Morfik alliance?Compiling to JavaScript works, e,g, Excel -> JSThere is a program called SpreadsheetConverter which compiles Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into JavaScript. Handles sheets up to 40,000 cells. JavaScript is surprisingly fast, even for very large spreadsheets: the recalculation only takes seconds. And for...

Tags: AJAX, Microsoft Excel, Scripting languages, PRODUCTIVITY, Programming languages, Microsoft Office, Google Web Toolkit, Google Web, Morfik, Google Inc., JavaScript

Discussion threads 2006-05-18

Google Web Toolkit released - rumors of Morfik alliance?

Google has just released its Ajax toolkit, called Google Web Toolkit: "Google Web Toolkit GWT is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language....

Tags: Google Inc., Google Web, Google Web Toolkit, Morfik

Blog posts 2006-05-17

FCC nears vote on TV 'broadcast flag'

FCC nears vote on TV 'broadcast flag'How do I pirate thee? Let me count the ways...The problem with a scheme like this is that it won't stop hackers and will probably annoy consumers. Like those who have already purchased HDTVs and would have to buy an upgrade or...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Piracy, Peer to peer (P2P), Consumer electronics, RIAA, cartel, IT FAILED, TV, ruler, FCC

Discussion threads 2003-10-28