Archive for January, 2008
Smartmove: Facebook spills its Apps over the web.
Non Technical speaking (Right from Mashable):
Numerous people have said that Facebook is like “a walled garden”; in that things do go in, but nothing comes out. It would appear that they made the first step last night in “coming out,” as it were.
Nick O’Neill of AllFacebook is reporting today that, without much fanfare, Facebook integrated [...]
MySpace, BBC Reach Global Video Deal
MySpaceTV is officially going global, with a new deal with BBC. The deal is the first of its kind for MySpaceTV, and it solidifies the increasing value of MySpace’s online video hub, which News Corp. is beginning to leverage for a variety of purposes; promotional, distributive and otherwise. See the channel here. Under the deal, [...]
Future of Widgets in 2008
Importance of WidgetsIt is expected for widgets to expand to a point where it will act like a network, the span over many different containers like social networks and even blogs. Since widgets are opt-in by the publisher or social network member, it’s a great way to track who’s actually interested in the content. As [...]
OpenID: Google & Yahoo joining OpenID forces..
It seems like the dream of a universal Internet user ID is getting closer to reality since major web-service providers have announced their intention to support the OpenID platform. If you are not sure what OpenID, you can read my previous post about it. But it is basically a decentralized service that will alow any [...]
Remains: MySpace > Facebook in Popularity!
Despite all the hype that is going on with Facebook. Myspace remains to be the undisputed king of social websites, though it’s shares has declined by 8%. Which might explain why News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch was rumored to be poking around runner-up social network Bebo recently. Oh, and by the looks of things, maybe [...]
Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
