Slashdot | Intentional GPS Jamming On the Increase::
Makes you stand out, more or less like an electromagnetic bulls-eye painted on your chest. will not protect you from a wideband jammer with enough power.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/27/0426216HOME |
Belatedly recognizing the importance of social networking as an online service and advertising vehicle, Google this week will
unleash its strongest response yet to the rising threat and skyrocketing popularity of MySpace and Facebook.
Threes Company Or Threes A Crowd? Google To Launch Friend Connect ::
Makes me wonder if Google ever becomes what it desires to be - the central of That said, Google is not about social networking, period. ( yes, period)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/09/threes-company-google-to-launch-friend-connect-on-mondayHOME |
On Thursday, Google will announce OpenSocial, an initiative with a set of APIs at its core that is designed "to spread social
applications across the Web," the company said.
These common APIs have been designed to let developers create social-networking applications that will run on multiple Web
sites, simplifying the making and distribution of these programs.
Partners supporting OpenSocial include various well-known software developers and social-networking sites: Oracle, Salesforce.com,
Hi5, iLike, LinkedIn, Slide, Ning, Friendster, and Plaxo. Neither Facebook nor MySpace is on the list of partners at press
time.
The move is also no doubt intended to dilute the massive success Facebook has had in attracting external developers since it opened up its Web site platform to third-party applications in May.
Social Networking at Search Marketing Gurus | Search Marketing Tips ::
Google has Orkut, but other than Brazil and Iran, Orkut barely makes anyones radar. Finally we have those sites that just dont fit into any of these
http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com/search_marketing_gurus/social_networking/index.htmlHOME |
Computer Web Services Web News Information Technology News::
Information technology news on computer web makes social networking power move its Messenger IM service with more social networking features.
http://www.pcworld.ca/topic/8E8F8831-A706-4557-B0C9-7AD2B482492E/pg1.htmHOME |
About 7,000 such applications have been built for Facebook so far, helping to make the social-networking site more attractive
to people and, thus, boosting its usage. MySpace recently announced it would follow Facebook's example.
By allowing developers to write an application once and have it work in multiple social-networking sites, the OpenSocial initiative
could, in theory, water down the appeal of Facebook's ballooning applications catalog.
Once considered a fad of interest mostly to teens and young adults, social networks have significantly broadened their demographic
appeal, attracting many people in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond.
horizonproject Social Networking::
social networking into the classroom or the workplace, some people are finally teachers do see the power of tools (like social networking) and encourage us to
http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/Social+NetworkingHOME |
Along the way, social-networking sites have been created for other purposes beyond entertainment and staying in touch with
friends. For example, there are social networks tailored for specific occupations, such as doctors, and interests, such as
sports.
Google has had a social-networking site named Orkut for several years, but it doesn't seem to have merited much attention
from the company until recently, and only after the popularity and potential of this type of site became evident.
Google was reportedly locked in a battle with Microsoft over which one would be chosen by Facebook to buy a stake in the social-networking company and earn a deal to provide advertising
to it.
Microsoft eventually won, buying a 1.6 percent stake that values Facebook at an eye-popping $15 billion, although the social-networking company reportedly
will have revenue of just $150 million this year.
With about 300 employees now, Facebook expects to have about 700 a year from now, its CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recently
said. About 250,000 new users register every day at Facebook, which was founded in 2004.
In June, MySpace had 114.1 million unique visitors worldwide, ranking first among social-networking sites, followed by Facebook
with 52.2 million, according to comScore. Hi5 ranked third with 28.2 million, while Friendster was fourth with 24.7 million.
Orkut rounded out the top 5 with 24.1 million.
More information about OpenSocial and resources for developers will be available from Google later this week. There will also be a developer sandbox.
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