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- Google unlocks data restrictions, announces Data Liberation efforts
- Google is unlocking its data door by launching a new initiative called Data Liberation, an approach to engineering that allows users to move their data - be it pictures, mail or documents - from Google's servers to any other location. In a blog post this morning, Data...
- Tags: Google Inc., Fitzpatrick, Public Relations, Internet, E-mail Providers, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
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- Rule change will bring Web 2.0 to federal sites
- There's Internet time. And then there's government time. In the case of cookies, the two are wildly divergent. Back in 2000 (that was the year of IE 5 and Netscape 6 and we were four years from Firefox 1.0), regulations were passed that banned government websites from using cookies. That...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Privacy, Web Site, Cookie, Government, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Motorola's mobile device revenue tanks in fourth quarter
- Motorola's fourth quarter results were in line with Wall Street's dismal expectations. That's where the good news ended. Motorola reported a net loss of $3.6 billion, or $1.57 a share, on revenue of $7.1 billion (statement, Techmeme). The loss was the result of a charge of $1.56...
- Tags: Revenue, Mobile, Mobile Device, Motorola Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- DEFCON 16: List of tools and stuff released
- Â Guest editorial by Rob Fuller DEFCON, the 9000+ attendee hacker conference in Vegas has become a sort of hydra conference. It has become more like a global fair than what most people think of conferences; even the badge is highly...
- Tags: Tool, E-mail Address, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- The most comprehensive police database: Facebook
- Over the last few decades, police intelligence gets better through technological means. Before they used pen and paper, and the only way to cross reference files was by means of filing. Nowadays with specific databases for different crimes - the PND, ViSOR, the UK DNA database, ANCHORY, FBI Guardian, and...
- Tags: Facebook, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened
- Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...
- Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory Board
- No more ad-free, free user accounts. Having pledged to "do no harm", blogging and social networking platform LiveJournal's new Russian owners are no longer offering new users the Basic Level account, "which traded a pared-down feature set for an ad and cost free user profile", reports ReadWriteWeb....
- Tags: Advertisement, Board, LiveJournal, SUP, Corporate Governance, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- KB940510+highlights+some+counterfeit+Windows+installations
- KB940510+highlights+some+counterfeit+Windows+installationsVery goodVery good. It's time Microsoft step up their anti-piracy efforts. I bought Windows Vista when I built my new computer and I could not be happier. It's cheap. Just get the OEM-version and it will cost you almost nothing. There is no support included but most users can do...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows XP, piracy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, software, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Progress report on the OpenSocial Web
- Google is releasing applications built on the Open Social API running on Orkut at the end of this month, and is holding "hackathons" February 7-8 and February 14-15 at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters for OpenSocial developers. In addition, MySpace unveiled its Developer Platform today, which uses...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google OpenSocial, API, Fact, MySpace, Social Graph API, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- Google's Social Graph API is neat, but is it useful?
- I guess it's not up to Google if their new Social Graph API will fly -- it's success is completely dependent on whether FOAFFriend Of A Friend and XFN XHTML Friends Network become popular enough to make their API useful. These two types of data are basically simple ways...
- Tags: Google Inc., API, XFN, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-02-03
- Google unleashes Social Graph API--indexes people connections
- Following on its OpenSocial APIs for building cross-social network applications, Google has created a Social Graph API that searches the Web for explicit public statements of connections between people. The Web crawler looks for XFN XHTML Friends Network and FOAF Friend of a Friend, which are standard formats used to...
- Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Web, Category, API, Site, Friend, People Connection, Social Graph API, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org - better late than never
- The big news is that representatives from Google, Facebook and Plaxo have joined Dataportability.org, a group setup to develop open standards to enable user data to be moved from one web service to another. Or as Marshall Kirkpratrick put it (over at Read/WriteWeb) "where users can take their data from...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, News, Social Networking, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Web Services, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- LiveJournal acquired by Russian company SUP
- While some will inevitably see this as Six Apart offloading its aging blogging platform and original social network, LiveJournal which the company acquired less than three years ago, the deal makes a whole lot of sense, and serves as a reminder that the Web is a world wide business not...
- Tags: LiveJournal, SUP, Blogging, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Social Networking, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Six Apart jettisons LiveJournal
- Six Apart announced a "new home" for LiveJournal LJ, the blogging and social networking tools and community it acquired in January 2005. The new home is Russian-based online media company SUP. Another way of describing what's happening with LiveJournal is that it was sold because it's not...
- Tags: Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, Home, LiveJournal Russia, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-02
- Who is afraid of the GGG?
- Dan Farber was one of the first to cover the Giant Global Graph, here on ZDNet. A few days on, though, there's value in taking a look at how these ideas are being discussed across the blogosphere. The GGG, or Giant Global Graph....
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Network, Relationship, Onus, GGG, Tim, Scepticism, WebTop, Channel Management, Semantic Web, Marketing, Internet, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Busy weekend: Kindle and Facebook beatings
- Robert Scoble spent the last week giving his new Amazon Kindle ebook reader a test drive, reading a couple of books and declaring the progeny of Jeff Bezos a failure. He thinks the usability and user interface suck and it lack features such as a touch screen, social networking and...
- Tags: Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-25
- Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph
- Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage Techmeme. It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with...
- Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Site, WWW, FOAF, Semantic Web, Channel Management, RDF, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-22
- OpenSocial: Developers speak out
- With Google's OpenSocial plans out of the bag, I checked out how some of the chosen few--Slide, NewsGator, Ning and salesforce.com--think about the new APIs and how they plan to apply them. Slide is the leading Facebook developer, claiming 63 million applications (SuperPoke, Top Friends, Slideshows, Guestbooks,...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Application, Network, API, User, Google OpenSocial, User Benefit, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
- The season of social network platforms
- The summer of Facebook is turning into the fall (as in the season, not the descent into an abyss) of social networking platforms. Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are still the prince of social networks. The Graphing Social Patterns conference earlier this month explored multiple aspects of the FB...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Network, Platform, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- Surfing the Relationship Update Stream
- Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon are on a mission to free up the social graph from walled gardens (see their "Thoughts on the Social Graph"). Executives from MySpace, Facebook and Google agree that users should own their own data, including their social graph (the people they are connected to a...
- Tags: Service, Web 2.0, Robots, Social Networking, Construction, Channel Management, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
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