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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
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
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
People Search Site 123people Goes International

123people is a people search engine that has been in private beta since February of this year. Originally covering only Europe, the company is throwing open its doors to international people searches with a US launch and going into open beta today. If you have ever heard that nothing is private on the...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-24-2008
Putting Social Media Monetization in “Context”

In his post on why the traditional CPM model doesn’t work anymore , Dave McClure breaks the CPM denial balloon, noting that the popular content-centric, keyword-based Google Adword model delivers a click-through rate of less than 1%. Dave posits that the problem is not Google-specific, but reflects...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-23-2008
BlackBerry Application Center: For Show or for Dough?

Research in Motion plans to counter Apple (and Google ) by launching its own app store – dubbed BlackBerry Application Center. Judging from the early screenshots and feature list from Crackberry.com, the store will be a mix of free applications – like Facebook for BlackBerry – and paid applications ...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
Facebook Scours America’s Colleges for More Friendlies to Call Its Own

Are you a college student, graduate or undergraduate? How would you like to work for Facebook someday? Sound nice? Zuckerberg and company hope you think so. Because they’ll be paying your place of higher learning a visit. As long as your campus is one of twenty or so listed here . The Facebook employment...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 09-21-2008
How late adopters get into social media

See, the early adopters are forgetting to study how the late adopters actually do get involved in our worlds. Those in the social media worlds seem to often forget that it’s still a Google World. Most normal people who aren’t frantically checking FriendFeed or Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 05-02-2008
Nip/Tuck Facebook app tells you how ugly you are (with math)

Normally I steer clear of writing about Facebook apps that have been created for promotional purposes, but this one is too good to pass up. It comes from FX UK , which has put together a very strange experience that tells you how "perfect" your face is in order to promote the plastic surgery...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 04-30-2008
Six Apart wrestles the social-media dragon

A look at Six Apart's Blog It, a tool that lets you manage both blogging accounts and messaging services from a single page. (Credit: Six Apart) The Web might have just gotten one step closer to a universal "social dashboard" capable of managing an array of blogging, messaging, networking...

Posted to Software by Anonymous on 04-15-2008

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