Archive for December, 2007
Australia borrows Arab Internet Policies on x-rated content!
Here it is flat out from Australia:
Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy says new measures are being put in place to provide greater protection to children from online pornography and violent websites.
The Australian government doesn’t take this move as against “freedom of speech”, where they state “If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then [...]
Google & Social Networking: updates on activities by your Gmail contacts
Google is about to include some controversial new features in your Gmail account: updates on activities by your Gmail contacts. If it turns out to be true, it will totally stir the web community balance and Google will be 10 steps closer to become a king of social networks… I guess? But then who knows, [...]
Facebook might be spreading to China
Now that will be a huge step for Facebook if it was able to conquer that side of the market, though it won’t be easy to fight since many other great ones "i.e. Yahoo" tried and failed miserably!
Well, here is the story: There were so many rumors that Facebook would enter China market by acquisition [...]
Facebook Open Platform Architecture vs. Google OpenSocial
I guess I was kinda mistaken earlier when I mentioned that Facebook refused to join Google OpenSocial initiave or even offer full APIs due to its arrogance & ignorance.
But I was on the spot when I said “Facebook believe it is the most popular social platform and so it doesn’t need to join OpenSocial and [...]
Holiday Presents from Facebook Platform!
Facebook has released few things to make FB applications more responsive and simpler to manage, though it might have interrupted many current facebook applications out there that needs to be tweaked… Here is a summary of what they have released:
Cookies. Great! Now you can have user’s information to be stored on “Facebook” servers and that [...]
Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
