ReadWriteWeb:
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the first birthday of Google's OpenSocial project, an open API framework for social networks and websites. Google's OpenSocial Blog recently presented some statistics, including that OpenSo (Read More)
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from Google Reader:
Telephone is a recently launched Facebook application that lets you make free VoIP calls directly from Facebook. There are several other applications that enable you to do this on Facebook and other networks like MySpace and (Read More)
Mashable!:
A historic Presidential election, an economic crisis, and even Hannah Montana were unable to capture the #1 spot in Yahoo’s yearly rankings of popular search terms. Instead, for the 7th time in 8 years, that title goes to Br (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Chances are you use at least two major social networks - 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October 2008 (Comscore, worldwide). Nearly 7 million people in the UK use both Bebo and Facebook. (Read More)
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from Google Reader:
Userplane announced that users of the Userplane Chat App can now chat with other users logged into the popular chat application regardless of where they are on the web. Userplane’s Chat App plugs into the open platforms of le (Read More)
Mashable!:
[Editor’s warning: many of the links in this story lead back to the original sources of the drama, and viewing them might be disturbing for some readers. Please be advised.]In a tragic story from NewTeeVee, we learn that a 19 (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Miss World is going digital. While many American readers may not be familiar with the competition (it isn’t the one owned by Donald Trump - that’s Miss Universe), Miss World is one of the world’s most popul (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Facebook just added another extremely useful feature for users, and in doing so took out a slew of applications that do that same thing. You can now get a weekly email telling you, simply, which friends have birthdays coming (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's been a little over a year since Google announced OpenSocial, a common API for social applications across multiple websites. It's an aggressive undertaking: an underlying technology designed to help all developers add int (Read More)