Veteran tech entrepreneur Bob Bickel has let out a whisper of his new venture, Ringside Networks, which will aim to make social networking applications work outside the network.
The CEO of social application developer TheBroth.com says he has yet to see interoperability advantages from OpenSocial, Google's common API for social networking applications.
Facebook has suspended the "Top Friends" application after a Canadian computer technician discovered it allowed anyone to peep through normally inaccessible parts of Facebook accounts.
Borrowing a playbook from Sun's Java, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once.
In a bid to keep up with Facebook, social network behemoth MySpace launched its beta application platform to Australian developers last night.
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The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Mashups involving digital maps are bridging the gap between the virtual and physical worlds, with uses ranging from local shopping and traffic reports to online dating and community organising.
With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.
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