Facebook has Developer Platform for some time now. Obviously, MySpace won’t stay behind and let Facebook take all the credit. To counter Facebook, MySpace has announced the release of its own Developer Platform. That’s not all, MySpace Developer Platform is supporting OpenSocial API, an API that was released by Google awhile ago and has been giggling in the web since then.
As the title says, Google has released a new Social Graph API that reads public data from different social web sites and links the relations between people in the web. Basically, Google crawls between people’s relations and connections which is available in public personal data anywhere in the web, then it will find FOAF and XFN relations or any other way of connections as Google says.
So if I’m your friend, and you’re a friend of person B, and person B adds person C in his blogroll then Google Graph API can tell me that I have a connection with person B and also C whether that connection was found directly or indirectly.
No it is not and I think it kicks ass. It is easy, simple, and very user friendly to use or to learn. To backup my claim, Colin Mock, the famous writer, has published a new article in InsideRIA that backups my claim and pitches all the hype around AS3.0.
Hearing of Flex or Adobe Flex a lot without any idea what the hell does it mean? If yes, then here is a new published post in Ted’s blog talking about Flex and what is Flex.
Today SUN announced the intention to acquire MySQL, the famous, at least among developers, open source database company. $1 billion has been plunk down and the acquisition is expected to complete at the beginning of second half of 2008.
AIR, Adobe Integrated Runtime, is one of the new technologies introduced by Adobe to create a desktop applications using Flash/Flex. To get started with AIR, a new tutorial published to teach the basics of AIR and how to get started.
The internet crashed during Steve Jobs keynote, which didn’t even happen during Bill Gate’s last speech a week ago. Big service provider websites have crashed during the keynote such as Twitter, StumbleUpon and CrunchGears. They couldn’t handle weight of all Apple fans trying to know the latest from Apple and as soon as possible.
Apple announced the new MacBook Air, an uber ultra-portable notebook. But the problem people are bitching about all over the blogosphere is the battery built-in(Up to 5 hours), you have to hand over your MacBook to Apple to replace the battery if anything happened to it. However, Macbook Air supports multi-touch pad, bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, and 802.11n WiFi. Ultimately, it will only cost $120 to change the battery but I don’t think people would like to hand over their laptop and not using it for few days, especially with all these geeks out there wanting to touch it! This beauty machine will cost around $1,800 and add like $20 for extra add-ons. I think it is cheap for an environment-friendly laptop with mercury free LCD! totally recyclable. Actually, there are different prices for different options, you can preorder it at Apple Store.
I’m sure you all heard, I think, that Bill Gates is stepping down this July from being a Microsoft CEO to a retired IT Ninja. Anyway, in his last keynote speech, at CES 2008, he introduced Microsoft Surface, a new cutting-edge surface computing. Amazingly designed user interface and way too stunning, at least for me as I love technology, with hilarious most-eye bubbling, I don’t make sense anymore, and I can’t wait to have one of these computer surfaces to study in it rather than studying in my boring woodish desk.
Technology has gone too far as the surface computer was able to recognize physical objects and interact with it. As demonstrated in the website, you can put your cell phone in the surface and a circular menu around the cell phone pops up that interacts with fingers. The video also shows how you can shuffle easily through countless photos, music, movies… by the tip of your finger!
