Social Networking and Collaboration Feed:
Not too long ago, every new site you joined on the Web forced you to provide a daunting array of details about you in order to join. Full pages of pull-down menus asking about your date of birth, your marital status, your home address and other information was standard. But over the last few years, with advents such as Open (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Sun Microsystems sure had some very nice things to say about the zembly project when it was introduced a couple of years ago:We like to say that zembly is the development environment for Sun’s bold vision—an application development environment that not only targets the web as its native platform, but uses cutting-edge web i (Read More)
Mashable!:
This series is supported by PayPal X Innovate 2009, PayPal’s first dedicated developer conference. Register for $49 with the code ppblog3 or join us at $50 if you are a student.As a developer, you have a lot of choices when it comes to how you attack a project. From programming languages, like Ruby and Python, to developme (Read More)
TechCrunch:
JIRA, a product from Atlassian, began its life as a simple alternate bug-tracker, and has since evolved into a popular and robust product and issue management tool. JIRA 4.0, to be released tomorrow, has made several enhancements and additions including an improved dashboard, JIRA Query Language (JQL) for enhanced search fe (Read More)
OpenSocial API Blog:
MySpace is pleased to unleash our full support of OpenSocial 0.9. MySpace's OpenSocial 0.9 implementation was built on an entirely new framework with three main goals in mind for developers; stability, performance and compliance to the OpenSocial 0.9 specification. These three goals will yield more consistent results, fewe (Read More)
Submitted by Adityakelkar2000
from YouTube:
Part 1 of 5 videos describing how to build your first OpenSocial application.
Dan Holevoet gives a brief introduction about gadgets, and goes over how to add your first OpenSocial application in the Orkut sandbox.
The entire tutorial/codelab:
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/articles/tutorial. (Read More)
Mashable!:
Ning, the service that lets you build your own social network around any interest or group, is taking a huge step forward today. Back in May, we wrote about the Ning app platform that was rolling out to select Ning networks. Today, the company is officially launching Ning Apps to all 1.5 million Ning networks.Built on Goog (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Ning, the popular online service that allows users to create their own custom social networking sites, launched Ning Apps today. Ning Apps gives users the ability to embed over 90 new apps and widgets on their social networks. Given that Ning Apps is based on the OpenSocial standard, however, developers will surely create a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Build-your-own-social-network company Ning is joining the ranks of sites like Facebook and LinkedIn with the launch of its application platform for outside developers. But where most social networking apps are targeted at users, Ning Apps are built for the social network creators themselves — you install them to improve you (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. Our first post was about Structured Data, our second about The Real-Time Web. The third part of our series is on Personalization. Personalization has long been a buzzword on the Internet. With the glut of information on the Web (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Not long ago Google revamped its sign-on system using the federated protocols of OpenID. Now Zoho, a major provider of SaaS productivity and enterprise tools, has decided to support Google Apps accounts for anyone logging in to its services. Though Zoho definitely competes with Google in areas such as its online documents e (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Google just rolled out 18 social gadgets for its iGoogle start page. These social gadgets turn iGoogle into a far more interactive and social experience, as users can now play casual games with other iGoogle users and share videos and to-do lists right from the iGoogle homepage. As Google's Marissa Mayer and Rose Yao, iGoog (Read More)