Posted on December 15th, 2008 by Steve
Google announced on their Official Google Blog today that the Google Friend Connect Service now features Twitter integration, allowing you to see who of your friends on Twitter are using the same site you’re using, or tweet about the site you’ve discovered.
Read the full post with screenshot here.
Considering that Facebook was rumored to be [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2008 by Steve
Salesforce.com customers and developers can now buy and sell applications through Salesforce.com’s AppExchange program in just a few clicks.
According to a company announcement:
With Checkout, it is easier than ever for customers to do business with salesforce.com and our partners. Customers now have a "one stop shop" where you can trial, pay for, start using, [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2008 by Steve
Australia’s legal system has found a new use for Facebook: serving up legal documents via Facebook’s notification system.
In what appears to be the world’s first case of “you got (legally) served” on Facebook, Master Harper of the ACT Supreme Court decreed that a default judgment in a court case could be served by Facebook’s [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Steve
Loopt, a GPS-based geo-location service that allows you to broadcast your whereabouts on the web, is now available on the Google Android, including support for the HTC G1.
Loopt, as with Loki and Yahoo’s FireEagle service, are all in the same category of sites that I feel actually go a little too far in terms [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Steve
I asked Google this question earlier this week: who is using JRuby for large scale projects? Here’s the list I got:
Oracle Mix – built by Oracle’s AppLabs folks, it is primarily a demonstration site to show what kind of social concepts Oracle is thinking about. Oracle Mix was used at 2008’s OpenWorld, which hosted [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Steve
MyFox Washington DC reports that they were able to snag a $20 used BlackBerry at a McCain campaign fire sale that included some interesting tidbits:
When we charged them up in the newsroom, we found one of the $20 Blackberry phones contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Steve
uTest, the virtualized QA department that I’d written about previously, recently performed a Bug Battle with over 1,300 testers. The results were interesting: Internet Explorer 8 came out with the fewest bugs, 168 were discovered by their testers. FireFox came in second with 207 bugs, and Google’s Chrome was in last place with 297 [...]
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