Social networks open doors to developers

ocial networks open doors to developers By Janie Christine Octia INQUIRER.net First Posted 15:42:00 11/09/2008 ...

Friendster Announces Support for Facebook Apps

Long before Facebook, there was Friendster. A pioneer of online social networking, it suffered from outages and technical problems just as MySpace was picking up steam. Friendster corrected its errant path,...

Google announces Friend Connect

Google announced Monday that many of its applications will soon be importable on non-Google websites via a new service called Friend Connect.As one Google spokesperson put it, webmasters will have a "salt shaker...

Yahoo, Myspace, Google Join OpenSocial Forces

The shape of things to come..."Yahoo, Google and MySpace said Tuesday that they would create the OpenSocial Foundation to maintain a neutral, community-governed forum for developing applications for social...

The road ahead... Can we see it?

Period of transition or hard labour of a new WEB. The weakest and the strongest points of Social Graph.OpenSocial initiative and why Google is probably the worst possible starting point for a...

Google's plot for world domination explained

Two of Google's latest developments, OpenSocial and Android, are handily explained in this column--in language even non-techies can understand. Highly targeted advertising seems to be the wave of the future. I just wonder what demographic I'll be targeted as--I keep seeing...

The Facebook application platform took the social networking scene by storm for the past few months. But with MySpace (the largest social network in the US by a magnitude of 3) now on board with OpenSocial, its essentially everyone against Facebook. How will this impact...

MySpace in Google software deal

"Google and MySpace have announced they are collaborating in a deal which could shake up the social networking industry. MySpace has agreed to join OpenSocial, Google's new platform designed to allow developers...

Google Goes Toe-to-Toe With Facebook

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later, and in this case it looks to be sooner. Instead of buying in and trying to take a piece of facebook's pie, internet giant Google is poised to take a giant chunk of the...

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