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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 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

Additional Resources

Tweet-SQL 2.03 (Windows)

Tweet-SQL is a Twitter Client for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and above. Over 40 procedures allow you to leverage the Twitter API with standard TSQL. With Tweet-SQL you can drastically cut the time it takes to develop a Twitter application. Tweet-SQL allows those without the relevant development skills to build...

Tags: Twitter, RC Software, Tweet-SQL, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-29

Google's CAPTCHA experiment and the human factor

Any research is prone to irrelevance if it starts with the wrong research questions, takes the wrong perspective, or in this case, attempts to fight the wrong enemy - automated bots attempting to recognize CAPTCHAs. Researchers at Google recently released a paper detailing a new CAPTCHA system...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Koobface Gang Mixing Social Engineering Vectors, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-04-21

AdaptiveBlue updates Glue; I avoid 'sticky' puns with this title

New York-based semantic technology startup AdaptiveBlue yesterday unveiled an update to their Glue product, and the world's technology writers were unable to contain their enthusiasm for the obvious puns. I spoke with AdaptiveBlue's CEO, Alex Iskold, ahead of the launch to hear about the latest enhancements. Currently...

Tags: Film, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Wiki, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-04-03

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

Facebook, Salesforce.com aim to create common developer network

Facebook and Salesforce.com today announced that the two companies will partner to make it easier for Force.com developers to utilize Facebook's API while creating hosted applications. According to Facebook, the new relationship is designed to create a more established development community between Facebook's 120 million users and Salesforce.com's 100,000 developers....

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Facebook, Network, Force.com, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-03

Ruby on Rails expert: Rails scales; Twitter shouldn't taint Ruby

Ruby on Rails, a rapid-fire Web development stack, has been under fire of late. Twitter outages have led a fairly loud chorus of folks singing the "Ruby doesn't scale" song. But is it really fair to make the Ruby-Twitter connection, which by the...

Tags: Database, Ruby, Twitter, Rails Applications, Ruby On Rails, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-21

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

Did Google buy Plaxo?

Rumor has it that Google agreed to purchase Plaxo for just under $200 million -- honestly though, I don't know why. If the deal actually happened, some people think it was probably to keep Plaxo assets from finding a new home at Facebook. I don't think that would...

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Social Networking, Asset Management, Telecommunications, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-02-08

News to know: Windows Server 2008; MySpace developers; Zimbra

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: What will run on Windows Server 2008--and when No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are good to go Ballmer outlines Microsoft's eight long-term growth bets Vista marketing...

Tags: Developer, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows Server, Zimbra, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, MySpace, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-02-05

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

Microsoft and Yahoo: Is it a threat to Google?

Microsoft is offering Yahoo $44.6bn for the company, and by the sounds of it, they will get it -- even if it has to be done the hard way. But will the new company have any impact on Google's domination of the search/search ad market? The...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Networking, Investment, Finance, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-02-01

12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008

The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we'll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises. And a variety of forces are coming together to make 2008 the...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Application, Software-as-a-service, AJAX, Information Technology, SOA, Organization, Enterprise, Mashup, Web-orientation, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0, Channel Management, Web Services, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Marketing, Emerging Technologies, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine

Facebook has stirred up a great deal of controversy and now harsh criticism with its Beacon advertising program. Three weeks after launching Beacon Facebook, the company did a 180-degree turn to make it more palatable for users rather than advertisers. It still fell short of the total opt-in approach that...

Tags: Facebook, Network, MySpace, Google OpenSocial API, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-01

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

Facebookers: Choose your words more carefully

At the FourSquare Conference in New York put on by the private investment firm Quadrangle, Facebook CFO Gideon Yu made a gonzo statement that is being picked apart by the blogosphere. As reported by Sam Gustin of Portfolio, who apparently was the only journalist to witness the...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-08

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 OpenSocial: What it means

Google's OpenSocial: What it meansHuge Opportunity for Business Social NetworksI was struck by how many business related partners they are. It made me think about the unique opportunity business social networking has with an open API like this:http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/ubiquitous-social-networks-for-business/Google outsmarts Microsoft againWhy bank on a single social network, when you...

Tags: Google OpenSocial, Google Inc., social networking, network

Discussion threads 2007-10-31