In a clever move by Google, they have announced plans to launch an open social networking platform which will allow web developers to use common social network modules, hosting on Google hardware.
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When del.icio.us is just too darn complex…
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I’ve been using del.icio.us successfully for a number of years and have amassed over 1,600 links during that time. Using the FireFox delicious plugin i find the process of online bookmarking second nature. However, the Yahoo bookmarking service lends itself well only to bookmarks for historical referencing, not articles or news pieces that you want [...]
Webjam Sessions: London. First Impressions
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
I had the pleasure of attending Webjam sessions this evening in Soho - a demo of the ’strawberry’ release of their new social networking platform. To be honest, i’d forgotten about Webjam after signing up last year, but Mike Butcher’s recent post on Techcrunch UK reminded me how this London startup was trying to break [...]
NEW Open web API, Open Social
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Ning, is participating in this week’s launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google’s own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, Friendster, Salesforce.com, Oracle, iLike, Flixster, RockYou, and Slide.
Microformats RSS feed launched
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
I’ve just launched a new microformats aggregated RSS feed for all the content appearing on the homepage of Microformats UK. So now, not only can you see a relatively complete conversation of Microformats on the homepage, you can also now subscribe directly to the content via RSS. The feed is available through autodiscovery, however [...]
YASN or AYSN - Another Yahoo Social Network…
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Judging by Yahoo’s playful re-entry into Social Networks and Facebook copycats, perhaps we should rename YASN (Yet Another Social Network) to AYSN (Another Yahoo Social Network) !