links for 2007-11-02
- ‘Apple Has Destroyed the Music Business’–Not That We Didn’t Try Our Best | Digital Daily | John Paczkowski | AllThingsD: NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker said Apple “destroyed the music business in terms of pricing” and will invariably do the same to the online video business. (tags: Apple, iTunes, Music, NBC, Business, media)
- Facebook Rumors: Making Friends with More investors: “Two hedge funds from New York have apparently jumped into the Facebook deal.We’ve got our ear to the ground to figure out who it is but each put in about $250 million–for $500 million total–at the same valuation as Microsoft Corp.” (tags: facebook, Microsoft, Business, finance)
- Google Open Social: Nothing here yet, but looks like it will be where Google puts the open social API docs (tags: google, opensocial, socialsoftware, socialnetworking, facebook, API, socialmedia, development, documentation)
- blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web: n a nutshell, Open Social is an open web API that can be supported by two kinds of developers: “Containers” — social networking systems like Ning, Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5, and Friendster, and… “Apps” — applications that want to be embedded within contain (tags: Google, opensocial, API, socialmedia, socialsoftware, platform, applications, facebook)
- Checkmate? MySpace, Bebo and SixApart To Join Google OpenSocial (confirmed): “Will Facebook now be forced to join OpenSocial? Google says they are talking to “everyone.” This is a major strategic decision for Facebook, and they may have little choice but to join this coalition.” (tags: Google, facebook, API, opensocial, socialnetworking, socialmedia, socialsoftware, platform, widgets)
- Absolutely Del.icio.us Tools Collection: An updated list of tools for Del.icio.us (tags: delicious, tools, directory, aggregator, bookmarks, Collaboration, tagging, tags, Folksonomy)
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