Over on the Giz today (ahem, Gizmodo) is an article on Google using their Moderator application to submit new ideas and allow other users to vote on it. It’s an interesting idea, and reminds me of what I wrote about earlier regarding UserVoice.
If Google likes your idea and makes oodles of money off of [...]
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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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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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As was widely reported today, Google announced that they are taking chrome out of Beta after just 100 days. Chief amongst their stats about the Beta program: in the 100 day duration, they saw over 10 million (yes, that means 10,000,000) active users. Whether that means they’re only counting the number of times Chrome [...]
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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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In his latest post, Rafe Needleman over at CNET identifies a list of sites that have implemented Facebook Connect, and which are using Google Friend Connect.
So far, and perhaps not too surprisingly, Facebook is leading the way.
Needleman believes the lead is due to three main reasons:
Users are (rightly or wrongly) comfortable with Facebook as [...]
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Force.com (the developer site for Salesforce.com) is now offering a Python library and test harness allowing developers to access the Force.com Web Services from Google App Engine applications. According to details on the company’s official blog:
Once it is installed in your Google App Engine application, that application can start to seamless make callouts to [...]
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