Posts Tagged with ‘api’

Facebook Gets an Office Suite

Michael Garrett

Facebook was originally designed around college students, and college students spend a lot of time studying and doing homework, correct? Perhaps that is the reason that Zoho, the masterminds behind online applications such as Writer (word processing), Sheet (spreadsheets) and Show (presentations), decided to make use of the new Facebook API to bring these very programs to the world of Facebook.
Zoho has an entire line of office productivity applications available at its home page, but Writer, Sheet and Show [...]

Surprise, Surprise

Paul Glazowski

We all knew it was coming. Facebook did it. LinkedIn say they’ll do it. It seems only fitting that MySpace follows in line and gives third-party developers access to its insides. Not yet. But eventually, yes.
It’s no surprise that MySpace is going the way of “open”. The reasoning behind the move is no mystery either. Simply put, if MySpace is to stave off the steady exodus of people from its pages to Facebook and yet smaller social networks, [...]

Google Maps: In-Flight And Below Ground

Paul Glazowski

Google’s been in the news a lot over the past few weeks. Seems as though they’ve never failed to make a headline for the entire length of spring. A lot of the news has been about big stuff, though, and sometimes little, yet interesting things get unfairly shadowed. So let’s talk little for a moment.
Google Maps, a creation molded by many to fit a great number of applications since it’s debut years ago, recently introduced a featured called Street View, [...]

Google Debuts ‘Gears’, A Trio Of Developer APIs

Paul Glazowski

Google's made many headlines lately, but today one particular announcement by the company shadowing almost all others. We say almost, because the biggest elephant in the room remains the Google-DoubleClick deal. $3.1bn is one card that’s really very difficult to trump.
On to the latest news. It turns out Google’s been hard at work trying to construct a bridge between online and offline use of applications that as of now can only be accessed with Internet connections, and come out from [...]