Posts Tagged with ‘open-social’

MySpace Is Branching Out Into Web StartUp Field

Leslie Poston

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 [...]

Google’s Latest Moves: Analyzing The Analysis

Paul Glazowski

There’s a great deal of talk surrounding recent news coming out of Mountain View as of late. Understandably so. In the last week or so, we’ve seen revealed a number of grand projects by Google: one having to do with the development of an open Web platform, dubbed OpenSocial; another having to do with a software-specific mobile project. (Yesterday, Google publicly divulged the outline of that mobile project, now known as the Open Handset Alliance.)
And there’s also been ample chatter [...]