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Facebook Opening Up?
via All Facebook by Nick O'Neill on March 24, 2008
Nope, not yet. That’s why Ringside Networks will be announcing a new service that “will let developers easily port Facebook apps to any other website and it will integrate company websites with social graph and communication features back at Facebook.” The service appears to be abstracting the social layer and letting the social networks handle that while providing full integration in...
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Microsoft eyeing iPhone development
via iPhone Central by Dan Moren on March 24, 2008
Given their long-standing rivalry, you might think that Microsoft would be wringing its hands over the iPhone. But if there's one thing the Redmond-based company knows, it's where the money is. With the announcement of the iPhone SDK, combined with Apple's support for Microsoft's Exchange email protocol, the iPhone has become a ripe target for Microsoft's software development....
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OpenSocial Makes a Statement
via All Facebook by Nick O'Neill on March 24, 2008
This morning I wrote about the new OpenSocial foundation. Unfortunately I missed out on the press call but there were definitely some key takeaways. Marshall Kirkpatrick provides a great writeup of the call. Two significant statements made was that Orkut will go live next week and that 200 million users will be reached by all the applications.Who wasn’t present on the phone call? Facebook and...
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Automatically convert any RSS feed to an iPhone Web app
via iPhone Atlas by benwilson on March 24, 2008
A new service converts any well formed XML RSS feed to an iPhone-optimized version with the typical sliding style interface. For instance (if you’re on an iPhone right now) here’s the iPhone Atlas feed, and here’s the Google News feed.Jim Liddle, one of the creators of the service, told iPhone Atlas “You can book mark the generated site and use it to host your own content and reference it...
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Open Source "Social App Server" Might Crack Garden Walls?
via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies by Jim Stogdill on March 24, 2008
... (like Jeep owners sharing pictures and videos) will be able to use social servers to develop the whole thing on their own websites. Their brand on their site instead of their brand on Facebook next to the "get help for your gambling problem" advertisement. Developing a social network will be harder to do this way than it would be using a white label network like Ning, but it will be c...
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Etsy vs. Ebay: Warum Ebay-Nutzer zu Etsy überlaufen
via Exciting Commerce by Jochen Krisch on March 25, 2008
Während sich Ebay in den letzten beiden Jahren auf der einen Seite mit Ebay Express abmüht(e), gewann auf der anderen Seite Etsy zunehmend an Fahrt. Einstige Ebay-Nutzer wurden zu Etsy-Fans. Noch tun die Nutzerwanderungen Ebay in keinster Weise weh, aber es lohnt sich doch mal nachzufragen (via):"Hi Etsy, Ebay sent me an invitation to an online survey, because I have been spending less on them...
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Imeem Makes Its Own Platform Play For Music Apps. Who’s OpenSocial?
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 24, 2008
For those of you who thought OpenSocial was going to make things easy for developers who want to create social networking apps once and deploy them everywhere, think again. More splintering is occurring. Tonight, rising music social network imeem (an original member of OpenSocial) is releasing its own software development kit for programmers to create applications on imeem. Imeem is not...
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Microsoft zeigt Interesse am iPhone
via iFUN.de|iPhone :: Alles zum iPhone by chris on March 25, 2008
... Stimmungswechsel bei Microsoft: das iPhone wird nicht mehr ignoriert oder verlacht, sondern man sieht eine neue Möglichkeit, zum Beispiel durch die “Portierung” von MS Office Kapital zu schöpfen:“Tom Gibbons, head of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group, said the focus would be on extending Office functions onto the iPhone and iPod touch.”Microsoft, SDK, Software
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iPhone-Engpass in den USA
via iFUN.de|iPhone :: Alles zum iPhone by chris on March 25, 2008
In allen drei New Yorker Apple Stores sind beide iPhone-Modelle restlos ausverkauft. Laut Huffington Post ist auch völlig unklar, wann neue Geräte geliefert werden. Die Aussage eines Store-Mitarbeiters “You can always go online” ist zwar nicht grundlegend falsch, nur hilft es nicht allzu viel da auch der amerikanische Apple Online-Store schlecht bestückt scheint: hier wird die Wartezeit...
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