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Start-Up Plans a More Personal Social Network

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Facebook made oversharing with a small army of friends a mainstream activity. Now, one of its early architects is swinging in the other direction.

Dave Morin, who helped build Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform, left the company this year to start his own venture, called Path. He says it is not another social network he has created, but a personal network, and on Monday, it will open to the public with an iPhone app for sharing cellphone photos with a limited circle of friends.

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Tags: Application development, facebook, Facebook Platform, Industry news, Internet, path, Social network, Web, Web development
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Google, Facebook Wrangle Over Data Sharing

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

Google and Facebook continued to wage their public war of words over openness, as Facebook engineer Mike Vernal posted a blog comment responding to a work-around that makes it easier for Facebook users to avoid Google’s recent move blocking Facebook from capturing information about users’ contacts in Gmail.

“Facebook Platform and the Graph API enable everyone to bring their own information to millions of sites and applications, including even Google’s YouTube. It’s still a work in progress and there’s more to do, but in practice Facebook Platform is the largest scale initiative to help you move your information between services that exists today,” Mike Vernal, a member of the Facebook engineering team, wrote in response to a TechCrunch blog. “Openness doesn’t mean being open when its [stet] convenient for you. We strongly hope that Google turns back on their API and doesn’t come up with yet another excuse to prevent their users from leaving Google products to use ones they like better instead.”

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Tags: Application development, facebook, Facebook Platform, gmail, google, Graph API, Industry news, Internet, orkut, Software development, Web, web solution
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VMware’s Private Cloud Computing Vision

Friday, October 29th, 2010

The Pitch

VMware wants people to be able to access enterprise applications with the same ease and flexibility they enjoy from Facebook and Gmail. That is, on any device, without a thought about where the service originated.

This is possible with a private cloud computing infrastructure, argues Rick Jackson, VMware’s chief marketing officer. It’s “an app store on steroids, integrated with your existing security and authentication services,” he says. Cloud computing takes virtualization-VMware’s specialty-one step further by liberating applications from a specific client device or data center. Apps can be delivered where needed, and served from the place with the lowest overhead.

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Yahoo Mail Gets a Refresh Beta, Adds Twitter

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

Speed and spam topped the list of what Yahoo was trying to improve in its next version, a beta of which will start rolling out to users Tuesday night. The redesigned version takes inspiration from Yahoo’s iPad and Android clients for the market-leading, Web-based mail service, and not only adds the speed and spam reduction, but also brings Twitter into its fold and, like Microsoft’s updated Hotmail service, can now display photos and videos within users’ inboxes.

David McDowell, Yahoo’s senior director of product management for Yahoo Mail, about the new mail version: “People spend more than 30 billion minutes a month on Yahoo Mail, so if we make a change, it’s significant,” said McDowell. “If you were to stack up users lists of complaints about e-mail, speed and spam would be at the top of the list, and we’ve tackled both head on with this release. Yahoo Mail’s been re-architected from the ground up with speed and performance in mind, and it’s actually two times faster than our existing version—much faster to load and much faster to navigate.”

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Internet to Hit 2B Users by End of 2010

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Nearly one-third of the world’s population will be online by the end of the year, according to a United Nations report.

The number of people using the Internet around the world doubled in the past five years and should surpass 2 billion users by the end of this year, noted a report from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a U.N. agency focused on information and communications technology issues.