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He Said, She Said In Google v. Facebook
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 15, 2008
More details on Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. I spoke with Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly and Google’s Director of Engineering David Glazer about the banning to get a fuller picture of the conflict.Here’s an example of how Friend Connect (more details) works in practice. A third party site may want to add social elements to...
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The Social Platform PR Wars Continue: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect
via Inside Facebook by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
... “Data Availability” initiative, whereby it will share public user profile data with partner sites like Yahoo, eBay, and Twitter. Fri May 9: Facebook announces its “Facebook Connect” initiative, which will let third party developers access Facebook user profile and friend data. Mon May 12: Google announces its “Friend Connect” initiative, which will let users do much of the same ...
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Login to Zoho with your Google or Yahoo! Accounts
via Zoho Blogs by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by Nkululeko Masondo Hmmmmmm Good move ZohoNow you can login to Zoho with your Google or Yahoo! accounts. Below the Zoho Sign-in section, you now have the option to login with your Google or Yahoo! accounts.If you already have a Zoho account with your Google or Yahoo! email address, you will be logged in to the Zoho account automatically. If you do not have a Zoho account with your Google...
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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Google Friend Connect Launched
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 13, 2008
Google released Friend Connect, a service for webmasters to add such gadgets as comments, reviews, or contact lists to their site. Furthermore, Friend Connect supports any creation from the Google gadget initiative “OpenSocial,” and also adds social features to a given site which connect the site to the social network site of a user. The latter, Google argues, holds the potential to increase...
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My Guess Of The Week - Part 2
via Geek And Poke by Oliver Widder on May 12, 2008
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FriendFeedLinks: A Memetracker For FriendFeed
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 14, 2008
Given the popularity of FriendFeed, it’s surprising that we haven’t seen many memetrackers appear for the site. Today French developer Michael Mortchelewicz has unveiled FriendFeedLinks, which attempts to fill that void.Compared to other memetrackers like TweetMeme and RSSMeme, FriendFeedLinks has a very spartan interface. There are no summaries or discussions to speak of - just a link to...
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Using Facebook Chat via Jabber
via Facebook Developers News Feed by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
Since the launch of Facebook Chat, we've received a lot of positive feedbackfrom users about being able to connect instantly with their friends onFacebook. With Chat fully launched and growing steadily, we've startedworking on more new features to enhance the Chat experience.Right now we're building a Jabber/XMPP interface for Facebook Chat. In thenear future, users will be able to...
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A friend connected web
via Official Google Blog by A Googler on May 13, 2008
Posted by Mussie Shore, Product ManagerHave you ever wished you could share information and interact with friends while visiting some of your favorite websites? There are a number of great social networking sites out there that let you stay connected, but the rest of the web typically hasn't been social. Yet.Site owners have been saying for a while that they would love to provide this...
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Tip of the hat: Fedora 9 officially released
via Ars Technica by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul) on May 13, 2008
Fedora 9, the latest version of the popular community-driven Linux distribution, has officially been released. It offers a cutting edge desktop software stack with GNOME 2.22, KDE 4, Firefox 3 beta 5, and version 2.6.25 of the Linux kernel.Read More...
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