Social Networking
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 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 [...]
Create a Facebook Application for your Blog with Blogfuse ~ not for free
"Blogfuse has launched a Facebook application that creates ready-made, integrated RSS feeds from your blogs. The application has been designed with the professional blogger in mind, and can be used for self-promotional purposes." ~ Mashable.com
It is a great service except the part that mashable failed to mention is that it is not for free. They [...]
Who should run New Media? At least not Marketing (yet!)
With the recent major shifting of corporations focus towards New Media such as social networks and its users, corporations are internally confused on which department should own, and what I mean by own is caring-feeding-updating etc, this new thing called “New Media”.
And by looking at the following enterprises, we can tell there is no definitive [...]