Facebook Opens Platform, OpenSocial in Trouble?

Barely a month after Google backed by other social networking sites announced its OpenSocial platform for interoperability between social networks, Facebook has announced that it would also be keen to license its APIs. Depending on how you look at it, this could be the best or the worst thing to happen to the social networking space.

Arun on December 16, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 4 Comments

On Ginger: The Latest Netvibes Update

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Continuing with their spicy naming scheme for major releases, Netvibes founder Tariq Krim recently posted the first preview of the next update to Netvibes, Ginger. The updates mentioned so far sound enticing, and as a devout Netvibes user I’m already feeling the itch to test out this new build.

Devindra on December 12, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

Inbox 2.0 = Netvibes?

Will this social fad ever stop? Saul Hansell at the New York Times is reporting on two similar initiatives by Google and Yahoo to leverage their web email platforms, along with their personalized home pages, into a new breed of social network. I think Hansell’s title is somewhat misleading because neither really has much to do with email. Instead, their sights seem clearly focused on Facebook and its kin.

Devindra on November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Web 2.0 | 6 Comments