Posts Tagged with ‘development’

As an avid Apple afficianado and advocate of all things open source, my stance on Microsoft is usually clear-cut: I don't care for it.  Everything about Microsoft's business practices rubs me wrong.  With that said, I was surprised to learn that Microsoft has been toying with its own little pet social network since the beginning of the year.
After all, Microsoft invested hundreds of millions in Facebook just last year, and all the talk of a large-scale Yahoo! and Facebook [...]

MySpace is about to gain back some of its cutting edge status by launching a separate venture that will act as a nurturing incubator for web start ups. Still in development under the guiding hands of MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, the start up will offer a place for new web ventures to get their sea legs.
This new venture will be a spin off from MySpace. Reports say the name tentatively chosen is SlingShot Labs. DeWolfe said that [...]

I tend to keep my eye on about a dozen or so feeds (gathered by Google Reader, if you’re curious to know) every day in order to scrounge up enough fodder for my posts here at Profy. (Si, soy un moocher.) Some of course receive more attention than others.
Case in point: I passed over my subscription to CNET’s Tech News Blog for the first couple of days of the week, and in so doing, missed quite a delectable piece [...]

There’s been a great deal of positive buzz being made over the OpenSocial development platform Google recently unveiled.
And there’s also an ample amount of consternation being voiced about the new open standard. In particular, there exists some skepticism of Google’s (and it’s partners’) ability to employ firm and practically insurmountable security measures for OpenSocial, to ensure that the free flow of personal – and in some cases confidential - information remains under a solid set of locks and [...]

Flock version 1.0 was just released Friday after a succesful debut at TechCrunch 40. This feature loaded browser has met with moderate success this year, and this version adds social networking functions to an already feature rich browsing experience.
I covered Flock version 0.9 for ReadWriteWeb back in September and it was greatly enhanced over their previous version. Yesterday's full release is an even more refined example of a great browsing tool, but is it enough to put Flock in the [...]

On a slow news day I stumbled across a great find at the Museum of modern betas (MOMB). Tubecaset.tv is an Internet video/TV startup in alpha testing. This sexy little development essentially grabs content from other sites like YouTube and my old buddy Dmitry at Veoh and layers an user interface atop the content. The simplicity and elegance of the site are quite grabbing, and best of all anyone can enjoy it now.
From a writer's perspective I was excited [...]

One of the most innovative and interesting startups from the Web 2.0 Expo is a comprehensive development environment called Bungee Connect from Bungee Labs. This on-demand web development tool allows for the building and deployment of a large number of APIs onto the Internet. The scope of this service is vast, but perhaps the most attractive aspect of the utility is that Web developers actually only pay for the service once their application is making money.
Essentially, Bungee Connect enables [...]

 
2007 International CES, Las Vegas –The latest news via Business Wire
What were we thinking? We have reported and reviewed dozens of products and applications without considering (much) the hardware necessary to carry out our web 2.0 dreams. Movie downloads, P2P interfacing, advanced gaming, local web storage, and so much more are memory intensive. The latest news from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies proves that some companies are still out there trying to stay one step ahead. Hitachi just created the world’s first [...]

Foss.in, a conference dedicated to pooling together headliners and close followers of the FOSS (Free Open Source Software) movement, opened its doors at the National Science Symposium Center in Bangalore, India, on Friday. The crowd is slated to disperse throughout the world after three intensive days of workshops, discussions, orations, and demonstrations, ending today.
Two especially noteworthy keynotes will be presented at this year’s Foss.in: one by Sun Microsystems’ Moinak Ghosh, an individual partly responsible for Belenix, a project open-source to [...]