Must Read! Time Magazine on that platform battle
Time Magazine has a must-read piece on the battle between Google, Facebook and Apple to build the best platform. The story looks at the open-vs-closed approach, the mobile-vs-tethered schools of thought, and why Google seems to be playing catchup instead of leading the way.
I did discuss in previous posts about how Facebook will lose the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
