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Google to open Orkut OpenSocial developer sandbox tonight: The campfire is burning tonight on the Google campus as the company prepares to launch an Orkut sandbox for working with the OpenSocial APIs. Developers will be able to register, get the docs and try out their code on the Orkut "container." Other containers, such as Ning, MySpace and others,...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Orkut.com, Google OpenSocial, API, Campfire, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-01
Pyro (dmg): Campfire is a great Web-based business group chat service. It's superior to IM in many ways, but we thought it could be even better on a Mac! Introducing Pyro: Your Campfire chats in a dedicated application, with the number of unread messages on the Dock icon, in Growl and on...; Tags: File Upload, MK&C, Campfire, Scripting Languages, Instant Messaging, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Internet, Online Communications; Software downloads 2007-01-10

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Confirmed: Apple files suit against Psystar: Confirmed: Apple files suit against PsystarThis may end the US based Mac clonesBut it is a big, big world and other countries don't honor the US's laws. I would not be feeling to secure about my overseas markets if I was Apple.Adrian, the hater of PsystarHe seems to have a...; Tags: Psystar, Apple Inc.; Discussion threads 2008-07-15
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
Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?: On April 7, Google took the wraps off of more than many had expected: Not just a hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform, known as Google App Engine. Google App Engine, which Google announced at its CampFire One developer event on April...; Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, BigTable, SimpleDB, SSDS, Databases, Web Services, Storage, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-07

Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktop: Zimbra's Prism client - a great use case for RIAs on the desktopprism bookmarkletthis IS cool to see. I noticed that many people have tried prism+zimbra or gmail and other web email systems. I personally use gmail+grouphub inside of Prism everyday. I mostly leave the grouphub campfire...; Tags: Web browsers, PRISM, prism, Zimbra, rich Internet application, desktop, Use Case; Discussion threads 2008-02-14
Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?: Who's buying into Web 2.0 technologies?DuhhSo here is the key sentence that shows what's wrong here:"The report indicated that application integration and management and SOA and master data management are top priorities for IT investments."Do small and medium sized companies even run these tools through IT or consider them IT...; Tags: SMB/SME, Wiki, Strategy, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, small and medium enterprise, Forrester Report, Web, information technology, IT investment; Discussion threads 2008-02-08
Microsoft delivers test build of Windows Live toolkit, more Live APIs: Microsoft made available for download a first Community Technology Preview CTP test build of a toolkit for building applications and Web sites incorporating Windows Live services using Visual Studio. The new toolkit, dubbed "Windows Live Tools for Visual Studio," include a number of controls developers can use...; Tags: API, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2007-11-08
Mark Cuban wants Facebook and Yahoo to dance the rumba: Now that Mark Cuban is free from his "Dancing with the Stars" commitment, he is weighing in on the current Facebook-OpenSocial debate. Several months ago he privately suggested that Facebook license its APIs to Yahoo: ...I thought that if you put the 2 together, enabling Yahoo...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Mark Cuban, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-04
Facebook's dilemma: To be OpenSocial or not to be: Facebook is now the lone wolf, the only major social network not to partake of Google's OpenSocial APIs. This is understandable. A radical change of course is not easy to contemplate. Facebook is the social networking leader, not in raw numbers but in momentum, demographic goodness and potential. The company...; Tags: Facebook, Google OpenSocial, API, MySpace, Zuckerberg, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-02
Google's new mantra: Making the Web a better platform for all: "In the next year we will make a series of announcements and spend hundreds of millions on innovations and giving them away as open source," said Vic Gundotra, the new head of Google's developer programs. Google believes that innovation on the Web has been lacking. XML...; Tags: Google Inc., Web, Idea, Goal, Microsoft Corp., Vic Gundotra, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-10-26
Why watermarking is a bigger devil than DRM: Why watermarking is a bigger devil than DRMOne questionI might not understand the whole issue.[i]The justification for these watermarks which are unique to each track but not unique to the user is to track which songs are being pirated on peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent and how often they’re traded. ...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, watermark, digital-rights management, movie, reasonable price, music; Discussion threads 2007-08-20
Photos: Happy developers in da house: Some 150 people gather in a Los Gatos, Calif., mansion for SuperHappyDevHouse, a 12-hour marathon of coding, hacking and socializing.Participants of the 19th SuperHappy DevHouse hackathon session descended on Tom Harrison''s family home last weekend in Los Gatos, Calif. Harrison far left opened his house up to some 150 tech...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, SECURITY, photograph, Amit Patel, SuperHappyDevHouse, Los Gatos, Facebook, San Jose State University, hacking, chief technical officer, Ohio State University, University of Washington, online v; Image galleries 2007-08-16
A conversation with Doug Belshaw: [Guest Blogger Stewart Mader, Atlassian - makers of Confluence and Jira. His blog can be found here.]Recently, I had a Campfire conversation with Doug Belshaw, a teacher of History and ICT at a successful comprehensive school in Doncaster, England. Among other things, Doug writes http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/, a blog filled with...; Tags: Wiki, blogging, Ive, blog; Blog posts 2007-03-12
U.S. urges countries to turn down heat on Apple: U.S. urges countries to turn down heat on AppleHow is removing stupid DRM....How is removing DRM from iTunes bad? :P DRM in nature is bad for the consumer because they are STUCK with only playing their mp3s on their iPOD unless they use 3rd party software to actually let...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Vertical industries, Digital media, Digital music, Apple Inc., government, digital-rights management; Discussion threads 2006-09-13
How steep will the cost of HP's dysfunctional family be?: How steep will the cost of HP's dysfunctional family be?Publicly criticizing your employerThere are times when such might be required, but I haven't personally come across any. If I think there's a problem, I can be very frank with my boss (I've always appreciated the fact that I'm allowed...; Tags: Corporate governance, Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Discussion threads 2006-09-07
Camping Memories Screen Saver Collection (exe): We've brought the food, started the campfire and assembled 18 of the most spectacular and memorable camping moments you will find on your desktop. Sit back and enjoy the view.; Tags: Screensaver, Memory, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing; Software downloads 2006-08-14
NetJaxer - a Web/Desktop integration product... but is it useful?: One of the many new web apps that has been emailed to me recently is one called NetJaxer, which caught my eye because it's a Web/desktop integrator. But it's a few days later and I've still not figured out what use it is. NetJaxer was described to me in the...; Tags: NetJaxer; Blog posts 2006-03-27
Photos: Techies gather at MashupCamp: There were no s'mores roasting over a campfire--this gathering was all about smooshing software code to create custom applications.; Tags: custom application, software; Image galleries 2006-02-21
Photos: Techies gather at MashupCamp: There were no s'mores roasting over a campfire--this gathering was all about smooshing software code to create custom applications.; Tags: custom application, software; Image galleries 2006-02-21