Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
Microsoft jumped into the OpenSource blogging platform world today… Well, kind of. They announced the release of Oxite, an ASP.NET-based OpenSource platform for blogging.
The site for Oxite admits that this isn’t meant to be much more than a very large example of what can be done with ASP.NET. And it’s actually a probably a [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
In case you wanted to (for any strange reason), you can now follow Wekti.com on Twitter: http://twitter.com/wekti
Get updated when any new (or updated) entries are posted to this site.
Happy Twittering!
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
SugarCRM introduced a new “Cloud Connectors” feature with release of its SurgarCRM 5.2 product, announced on Monday this week. The new Cloud Connectors feature allows SugarCRM to fetch data from third-party sources around the web. One of the first demonstrations of this was integration with LinkedIn, allowing users to launch a window directly from [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
NetVibes, a customizable and sharable widget mashup portal (thingy?), announced a preview of support for the Universal Widget API standard with OpenSocial compatibility, as well as new layouts and a host of other features yesterday:
We also have excellent news for developers: we have a public preview of UWA (Universal Widget API) with OpenSocial compatibility. [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
When it comes to predicting the future, the shorter ahead you try to predict, the better you’ll generally be at getting it right. Graeme Philipson at the Sydney Morning Herald published an article outlining his ten prophecies for what will happen with IT over the next ten years. Of particular interest to me was [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
Just as the Netbook devices start to become popular – you know, those tiny laptops with ridiculously tiny screens and keyboards – the founder of Netvibes, Tariq Krim, announced plans to release a new software stack, named Jolicloud, to provide a streamlined OS for the Netbook platform.
Most of the Netbooks today come pre-loaded with [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Steve
Yesterday both CNET and TechCrunch covered news about MySpace trying to keep up with Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect news by re-branding their data portability project.
As with Google Friend Connect, MySpace has adopted open standards: OpenSocial, OpenID, and OAuth. As I’ve written earlier, though, the standards are great for data geeks (like me) [...]
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