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  • OpenSocial, Facebook and Microsoft to compete for app developers

    OpenSocial is growing up fast. What started out as Google's effort to create a common API for developing small applications with HTML and JavaScript that can tap into data from across multiple social networking services is becoming more of a full-fledged, cloud application development platform. ...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-17-2008

  • Sniff lets you find your friends in real-time

    Useful Networks , a mobile location firm that has been operating in the U.K. and Scandinavia, announced Monday that it has brought its mobile and Facebook-integrated friend finder, Sniff , to the U.S. through the Sprint Network. Sniff allows users to find friends automatically and in real-time and provides...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-17-2008

  • Facebook moves into micropayments for gifts

    Since its launch in early February of last year, Facebook's online gift store has run off of standard U.S. dollars, letting users purchase gifts one at a time, or in bundles at a slight discount. However, starting Monday the popular social network has moved to a micropayment system where each point...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-03-2008

  • Flickr's 3 billionth photo: DSC_2672_1

    The 3 billionth photo at Flickr is this shot of a door on an abandoned house in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. (Credit: Garrett Ryan Smith) I've always been annoyed by the significance we humans attach to numeric milestones just because they happen to involve a lot of zeros. But 3 billion--the...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-03-2008

  • Facebook membership surges to 120 million users

    Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg speaks at Dreamforce. (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News) SAN FRANCISCO--Social-networking giant Facebook got a notch bigger in the last three months, and the company has higher hopes from a partnership with Salesforce.com. Specifically, the company grew its active membership...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 11-03-2008

  • LinkedIn's well-groomed app platform goes live

    There's nary a sheep to be tossed on business network LinkedIn 's new developer platform, which has officially gone live. The array of internal- and partner-created applications includes a "reading list" app from Amazon, a trip-tracking app from TripIt , file sharing from Box.net ,...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-28-2008

  • Qik announces streaming video for BlackBerry

    (Credit: Qik) California mobile video company Qik on Sunday announced the alpha release of version 1.0 of Qik for BlackBerry. The free, downloadable application (covered here and demoed here ) lets cell phone filmmakers stream video live from their mobile phone to Qik.com, social networks like MySpace...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-26-2008

  • Photo Event Creator Pix ‘n’ Pals is So Darn Easy

    The number of photo sharing websites in operation is immense. No question about it But though Flickr , Photobucket , and Facebook take top order in the field, services in the second-, third-, fourth-tier and beyond sometimes deliver options that may be attractive to some very particular folk. Enter,...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-26-2008

  • Facebook to developers: Here, have some code!

    Facebook is known for keeping its cards pretty close to its chest, so to speak. But in recent months, the company has been drumming up its commitment to open source --and on Friday, Facebook announced that a piece of internally created software, called " Scribe ," would be released back to...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-26-2008

  • 123people launches U.S. site to help you find anyone

    123people , a service that collects information available on the Web about people from sources like Flickr, Google, and Facebook, announced that it has started operating in the United States. Previous to the announcement, 123people was only available in Europe as it was working the kinks out in its beta...
    Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-24-2008
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