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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

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Andreessen: Facebook could do $1 billion in revenue if it wanted to

Andreessen: Facebook could do $1 billion in revenue if it wanted toNot buying itThis is the same guy who helped SCO craft their legal strategy against IBM and Linux. Netscape and the SCO litigation. Not exactly a record of accomplishment I'd get behind. But he could help...

Tags: Operational accounting, OPEN SOURCE, Facebook, revenue

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

News to know: Nokia; Salesforce; Mozilla; Google; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Salesforce opens Sites; offers free version to help push cloud adoption Dion Hinchcliffe: Cloud computing and open source face-off...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Flaw, Palm Inc., Mozilla Corp., Keyboards, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Peripherals

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves

Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolvesAPI AggregationThis is a terrific summary of a landscape-altering trend on the web. At Gigya, we also see these APIs as an enormous opportunity for businesses. By aggregating a large number of these APIs in order to simplify the connection...

Tags: API, eBay Inc., Open API, Web

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

News to know: Cloud wars; Apple; Google; China is watching you

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft’s planned cloud platform. Techmeme A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve? Zack Whittaker:...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IPO, Robots, Linux, E-mail, Digital Media, Financial Services, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-10-02

New RIM apps cater to consumer, not corporate users

RIM, which has been on a push to attract more consumers to its growing line of Blackberry devices, announced new applications today, catering to those who like their TV, music and MySpace. RIM is clearly going after a demographic that's different from the executive road warrior who carried the real-time...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, RIM BlackBerry, TiVo Inc., MySpace, Handhelds, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Wordcamp 2008

In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...

Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-16

Facebook gets serious about app quality

Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Apple finally goes RIA

Apple finally goes RIAPlease convince me.How can RIA and privacy coexist? I mean, the same people who are delusional about the patriot act live on myspace, youtube, and facebook where privacy is valueless.i likeits a great start, I think Apple is going in right direction.RE: Apple finally goes RIAThis...

Tags: rich Internet application, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-17

iPhone is about to get a whole lot more social

As expected, during the company's WWDC keynote Steve Jobs and co. demoed some of the early fruits of Apple's official iPhone SDK and unsurprisingly we saw a number of social applications on display. Social networking While we didn't see the rumored MySpace client, we...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Blogging, Internet, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-06-10

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

After Google calls Facebook's bluff, Zuckerberg says "let's see if there's a way to make it work" [data portability]

When Google announced its 'Friend Connect' product to deliver social networking features to the 'long tail' of the Web, the option "to see, invite, and interact with... existing friends" from competing social networks was bound to raise a few eyebrows. Not least from Facebook, whose inclusion was made possible...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Site, Social Networking, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-19

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

Facebook makes its own 'data portability' move, Google to follow?

Not to be outdone by MySpace's "Data Availability" initiative, Facebook announced on Friday its own data portability strategy dubbed "Facebook Connect". Described as "the next iteration of Facebook Platform" the new feature will allow users to "connect" their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to participating sites --...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Social Networking, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Is Apple selling off its professional software titles?

The slimmest hint of a rumor can gain steam when cycled around the Internet. It seems to be happening with rumor that Apple is pitching its professional applications such as Final Cut Pro. The rumor was buried below the fold in the Friday Pulpit posting by Robert...

Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Video, Final Cut Pro, Corporate Communications, Marketing, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Catching up: MySpace adds Karaoke; Friends Reunited drops paid access; Facebook apps create privacy scare

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the last week… MySpace adds Karaoke. Nearly two years after Fox Interactive purchased the karaoke site kSolo.com, its feature-set has finally been integrated into MySpace. "The combination of...

Tags: Facebook, Privacy, MySpace, MySpace Karaoke, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, Desktops, Databases, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Hardware, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsOther winners include1) Office chairs producers2) The free marketsRE: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsGoogle is a winner? Uh no. Google has been intefering with this deal from the beginning and should be put...

Tags: advertisement, audio track, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan B

Discussion threads 2008-05-04

Open to the public: MySpace Application Gallery; Facebook Chat

The MySpace Application Gallery graduates from Beta MySpace has declared the Beta phase of its Application Gallery - a directory of third-party apps created under the social network's official Developer Platform - complete. "For the first time, the Gallery will be promoted and fully available to MySpace...

Tags: Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-04-24

imeem brings licensed music to the Platform party

Another day, another platform. This time it's imeem's turn to offer third-party developers a way to build applications for its media-oriented social networking site. The imeem Media Platform "enables developers to quickly create applications for imeem that integrate our community, features, and our music,...

Tags: Developer, Microsoft Access, Media, Video, Photograph, Music, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-03-25

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