We recently heard about “w00t” being chosen the word of the year by Merriam-Webster. Now “Facebook” has been added to the Collins English Dictionary.
This has been added both as a noun meaning “a popular social networking web site” and a verb that means to search someone’s profile. In fact the Collins guys are so impresed [...]

LinkedIn announced what they call “LinkedIn Intelligent Application Platform” earlier today. The platform will offer 2 ways to integrate with LinkedIn: first by using their APIs to build widgets than can augment the functionality of an existing site and secondly by building the application that gets hosted on LinkedIn website using OpenSocial API.
As of now [...]

We all use Facebook for socializing, interacting with friends/colleagues, expressing our opinions on groups/forums etc, but pretty much all these activities are for fun and leisure. In fact, it’s common for people to brand Facebook as a “fun” site. However, we engage in a lot of similar stuff at work as well, albeit in slightly [...]

I came across a few posts recently which claim that OpenSocial is not going to help Google much since it’s just a platform and it won’t help them increase the Orkut popularity. I don’t disagree with this argument, but what they go on to conclude is that OpenSocial is no big deal and probably is [...]

MoveOn.org’s campaign against Facebook’s Beacon program is gathering momentum. The number of users who have joined MoveOn’s Facebook : stop invading my privacy group has been steadily increasing over the last few days. There are many blogs/sites as well which have come out in favor of MoveOn’s campaign.
Facebook’s Beacon is way for Facebook users [...]

There have been some views in blogosphere recently relating to the future of emails. A few days ago I saw a post on New York Times blog about Yahoo and Google turning emails into social networks. Then there have been some threads claiming that email is dying. Coming across contradicting news and views is not [...]

Those who till a couple of weeks ago thought that Android is just a vaporware would be biting their tongue now. First it was the release of actual platform on Nov 5, and as if that wasn’t enough, now comes the news from Wall Street Journal that it’s planning to buy wireless spectrum that it [...]

Now even the core technnology companies like Oracle are joining the Social Networking and Web 2.0 bandwagon with an enterprise twist to their offerings.
In today’s Oracle OpenWorld, they provided a sneak-peek into the Social dimension and mash-up like applications that they are going to support in their next-gen “Fusion” release. Following is a quote from [...]

There have been a few recent developments that can have significant impact on how online advertising works in the time to come. It’s interesting to look back and see what online advertising started with, where it is right now and what can it potentially grow into. In the middle to late 90’s, the online advertisements [...]

It may sound weired, but Facebook and iPhone could actually help polarization of most of the companies in the field of social networking and mobile towards OpenSocial and Android. There is something similar between Facebook and iPhone as of now, which is both are closed and use proprietary technologies - the new initiatives from Google [...]

The Google phone is rumored to be announced today. The details regarding whether it’s going to be a physical phone or a platform for application development on smart phone or a combination thereof are all a matter of speculation now. However, the question that comes to mind is, is this project related to OpenSocial that [...]

Google today launched the OpenSocial platform for building application across social networking sites. The website is now live, check this out: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
OpenSocial is now live for orkut, their social networking platform. Apart from having “Many sites, one API” approach as mentioned on OpenSocial website, what also makes it unique is the ability to write multi-page [...]