links for 2007-08-01
- How To Create A Viral Facebook App: “You can build a great Facebook application that is used by millions of people, but if it doesn’t help you with your business, what’s the point?” (tags: facebook, development, web2.0, viral, socialsoftware)
- How to Fix Yahoo!: Building a Yahoo! Platform: “Turning My Yahoo! into an open platform for rich internet applications does two things: 1. unify Yahoo!’s services 2. adds utility for users and gives them less reason to leave “ (tags: Yahoo, platform, Business, API, socialsoftware)
- Google bets on mobile market | CNET News.com: “Search giant Google is setting the stage for its biggest push yet into the U.S. mobile market, in a strategy that delicately straddles the line between partnering and competing with the major cell phone operators.” (tags: Google, Search, Business, Mobile)
- Social Networking Goes Global – Especially in North American Region: “According to comScore, MySpace is over twice as large as its nearest rival, Facebook. Both Facebook and Bebo have had extraordinary growth over the past year (270% and 172% respectively):” (tags: socialnetworking, socialsoftware, statistics, Research)
- Course We Could Just Blame The FCC For Our Refusal to Bid And Still Come Out Looking Like Heroes | Digital Daily: “Now that the Federal Communications Commission has voted to adopt only two of the ” ‘Four Opens’ of Successful Open Access,” the question on many minds is “Will Google bid in the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction?” (tags: Google, FCC, government, Wireless, spectrum, auctions)
- http://en.think.no/: “The electric car comes back from the dead. The new Think sounds awesome: A tiny electric car, built-to-order through an online site, which comes with an Internet connection and the ability to sell power back to the grid. It’s Henry Ford 2.0. On sale in t (tags: Automotive, green, transportation, environment, cars)
- Report: Facebook axes third-party app Audio over copyright issues | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: “VentureBeat reports that Facebook has removed a popular application from its third-party developer platform over potential copyright issues. The application, called Audio, allowed users to upload MP3 files and share them with their friends” (tags: facebook, Audio, applications, platform, copyright, Legal)
- BitLet – the BitTorrent Applet: “Bitlet is a handy service for downloading BitTorrent files without the client.” (tags: torrent, p2p, java, webapp, Browser)
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