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At 40, the Internet's still reshaping history
Insight The Net has crushed geographic barriers and withstood extraordinary growing pains. But the human race has work to do adapting to its creation.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Netcraft, WWW, Net, cloud computing, Web 2.0, Web sites, PC, Facebook
Facing the future
Insight Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks about the next phase of growth for the popular social networking site.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services
Facebook locks out Plaxo
News Facebook has fought off a major-league blogger's bid to extract his own contact list from the service, using a utility from rival site Plaxo.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web services
Google to launch location-sharing Latitude software
News New Google mobile-phone software lets you find people's locations, as long as they are sharing that information with you.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Mobile, Google Inc., Location, Dell Latitude, Yahoo! Inc., Cell Phone, Social Graph, phone
Yahoo opens up address-book interface
News Seeking to make its inner workings a part of the fabric of the Internet, Yahoo is opening the interface to its address book.
Tags: Business applications, Web 2.0, Strategy, Address Book, Google Inc., Site, Yahoo! Inc., Plaxo Inc., Social Graph, social networking
Google releases social graph code
News Google has helped solved a problem that infects new social networks and applications--how to grow them, and fast.
Tags: Web 2.0
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
News Google joins the data portability crowd with 'Friend Connect' allowing users to bring their data from social networks. The programming-free network is said to even incorporate Web sites that are not socially-enabled.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Networking technology, MySpace, Google Inc., Site, Orkut.com, Social Web, Plaxo Inc., Use Case
Google eyeing its own 'Second Life'?
News While Google has not confirmed details, rumors abound surrounding Google's development of a virtual world.
Tags: Web 2.0
Yahoo exec: Peek into your ad profile
News Yahoo's Jeff Weiner talks at a social-media confab about an open system that lets people see why the company targets a specific advertisement to them.
Tags: Internet advertising, Networking, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Social Media, Advertisement, Yahoo! Mail, executive vice president, network, blog
Yahoo, Google, MySpace form nonprofit OpenSocial Foundation
News Google, Yahoo, and MySpace forge a nonprofit foundation to ensure that OpenSocial stays a community-driven spec "in perpetuity."
Tags: Web 2.0
Facebook on the decline as 'virus' apps take hold
News Privacy problems and propagation of "virus-like" applications has led to a marked decline in the use of Facebook's developer platform, according to industry analysts Ovum.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Security, Application, David Mitchell, social networking, virus, blog entry, Facebook, network
Google's Mayer talks iPhone, Facebook
News Google's vice president of search products and user experience, likes her iPhone and she is a big fan of social networks, especially Facebook.
Tags: Web 2.0, Female, Male, Smart phones, Cellular phones
Running a contest on Facebook? That'll cost you
News Social network tightened rules for companies running contests on its platform, and sources say those companies will be required to buy ad space, too.
Tags: Internet advertising, Web sites, Web 2.0, Facebook, advertisement, CEO, U.S., CBS Interactive Inc., Human Resources Inc., Web sites
Facebook Connect: Your 8,000 hidden friends
News Do Facebook Connect users understand how extensively their profiles and activities are used by third parties?
Tags: Privacy, MySpace, Site, Google Inc., User Data, Advertisement, social networking, movie, Facebook, network
Yahoo Mail, iGoogle to take on Facebook?
News Yahoo and Google could be planning social-networking sites in the form of Yahoo Mail and iGoogle, respectively.
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