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Developers of social networking sites are considering sharing blacklists of annoying and 'spammy' applications with each other in an effort to prevent users from switching off Web 2.0 technology.
Google has unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming.
Google, Yahoo, and News Corp's MySpace announced on Tuesday that they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kickstarted last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on social networking sites.
At this week's South By Southwest Interactive Festival, Facebook founder and world's youngest rich list entrant, Mark Zuckerberg, sat down with Caroline McCarthy of ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com to talk about PayPal, pestering applications and press hysteria.
By allowing people both in and outside of companies to connect with each other, and share information over the network, the pace of business operations will escalate.
Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?
We sat down with security analyst Andrew Walls at Gartner ITExpo and asked him how Web 2.0 affects application security. He talked to us about how traditional desktop security measures are falling short in a Web 2.0 world and how developers need to take more personal responsibility for the security of their code.
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Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.
IBM last week launched a public beta of its Lotus Notes and Domino 8 e-mail and collaboration software.
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