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- Google to turn iGoogle into a gaming platform?
- Yesterday I received an invitation for a press event at Google at the end of March. The event will revolve around iGoogle, and what "game publishers" are doing to get involved with the platform. Please join us on the night of March 25th as we give...
- Tags: Google Inc., iGoogle, Games, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader ...
- Tags: Black Hat, Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Semantic Web, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Non-profit OpenSocial Foundation formed as Yahoo jumps onboard
- Yahoo today announced their support for OpenSocial, the Google-led standard for developing applications that work across supporting social networks (e.g. OpenGadget). Except, technically at least, OpenSocial isn't the sole property of Google anymore, following the formation of the non-profit OpenSocial Foundation, whose custodiands MySpace, Google and Yahoo...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Social Networking, Intellectual Property, Business Structures, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Research & Development, Business Operations, Finance, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- More battle lines are drawn: Yahoo backs Google's OpenSocial
- On the same day Microsoft announced new interoperability deals with five social-networking sites, Yahoo announced it has joined the Google-backed OpenSocial social-networking intiative. Yahoo announced on March 25 that not only had it joined the OpenSocial group, but that -- along with MySpace and Google -- Yahoo...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Google OpenSocial, Strategy, Business Structures, Management, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- News to know: EclipseCon; Tired browser wars; Apple; P4P; R.I.P. Russell Shaw
- Notable headlines: Rest in peace Russell Shaw. Techmeme Ed Burnette: EclipseCon 2008: Fake Steve Jobs, Microsoft, E4, and more Jason O'Grady: Getting tired of the browser-go-round David Morgenstern: Fun facts about Mac OS X Leopard's icons Jason Perlow:...
- Tags: EclipseCon, Yahoo! Inc., P2P, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- First MySpace OpenSocial apps unveiled with very little fanfare
- As promised, MySpace users can now get their hands on the first fruits of the social network's official Developer Platform -- the means by which outside developers can create official applications that integrate with the site. Having surprised us back in November by announcing that MySpace would...
- Tags: MySpace, Social Networking, Games, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- 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
- MySpace Developer Platform launches
- As promised, MySpace has launched its developer platform, meaning that third-party developers can start building applications for the social networking site. Although users were previously allowed to run third-party mini-apps or widgets on their profiles -- with a full developer platform, applications will now have direct access to users' public...
- Tags: Developer, MySpace, Developer Platform, MySpace Developer Platform, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- 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
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"Excellent analysisGreat analysis Steve! I am giving a talk at Toronto's FacebookCamp on OpenSocial vs. Facebook, so this will definitely help. As you suggested, Google announced their platform too early. But in a way, it was also an appropriate time to release considering that Friendster, Hi5,...
- Tags: Google OpenSocial, Facebook, Marc Canter
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- OpenSocial should be renamed "OpenGadgets"
- As it stands, the Google-led OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability. That's the view of Marc Canter, a long time advocate of open standards and data portability, and one in which I'm inclined to agree. It seems that almost everybody got a little carried away...
- Tags: Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to drop
- Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to dropOpenGadgets just fineI still find all of the attacks on OpenSocial to be naive. Did anyone ever really think each company would open up it's social graph? Apparently so, but I certainly didn't. You really thought Google had the power to...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Google Gadget, Google OpenSocial, Facebook, social networking, OpenGadgets, network, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-28
- All roads lead to the social Web
- During a panel discussion at CES, Owen Van Natta, chief revenue officer at Facebook, said, "We believe that social network is not building a new niche or vertical but it will permeate everything on Web and unlock things we don’t do today." All roads lead to the social Web. ...
- Tags: Bebo, Google Inc., Web, Facebook, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Portals, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Social networking prediction for 2008
- One of the pied-pipers of social networking is making some predictions about where the most talked about technology of 2007 is heading in the new year. In his blog post, Marc Canter proclaimed, "All software is about people and now all software will have social features in it." ...
- Tags: Network, Marc Canter, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
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