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Despite having the lowest number of integrated services (see chart below) Galligan tells me the team is on track to add about 200 others in the coming months. He believes Socialthing’s implicit understanding that you don’t want to track down people you’re friends with will draw people who are using these services to [...]
The software maker also said that it has fixed the majority of the reported bugs found in the product since the release of Vista, as well as added a feature that allows the search index to roll back to a previously saved version if it encounters an error, as opposed to needing to rebuild the [...]
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Following HD DVD’s demise, there’s been a lot speculation that Microsoft would add a Blu-ray option to the
XBox 360. The latest rumor has a subsidiary of Asus, Pegatron Technology, making a premium Blu-ray-equipped version of the XBox 360 that will arrive in time for the holidays. This one follows on the heels of a report [...]
Kelton posed the question this way in his pre-conference writeup: “What happens when early adopters have become spoiled by single-feature technologies that take no more than a moment to grasp? The challenge faced by the next wave of innovative start-ups for technology adoption increases by an order of magnitude.”
Obviously, it’s easier to build [...]
Like Geni and others, to get started you simply add family members using the directional arrows found on each person’s block. There’s support for divorces, first, second, and third marriages, half siblings, and any other oddly conceived (literally) member of your extended family. It also supports nine different languages, meaning if you’re trying to share [...]
I pressed Javier for more detail over IM, and he offered up this lame response:
He’s consulting with us a few days a week working on this new product we’re launching very soon….
He’s fired up about what we’re doing (which I can’t tell you!).
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Mike Olson sold his open-source database startup, Sleepycat, to Oracle and earlier this [...]
And now, the latest in social network developer platform announcements: Orkut, the community site owned by Google, has rolled out a directory of applications to its users in India and will continue to expand geographically over the next few weeks.
Announcements about social network developer platforms are a dime a dozen, now that Facebook’s example made [...]
•  Microsoft laid the groundwork when it introduced Web-based software and services under the “Live” rubric last year. You can argue that Mesh is the logical extension of that idea.
Still, I think Microsoft is onto a big idea: a cloud service where users can tap into an always-available online hub that synchronizes all their [...]
FOSI holds an annual conference about online safety: this year’s will be on December 11 in Washington, D.C.
As the first social network to become a nationwide teen craze, MySpace became a frequent target for safety advocates–including state lawmakers, who ended up working with the social network to create a safety plan for kids and teens [...]
Specifically, the ICO said in a statement that it believes safeguards such as blurring faces and license plates on
cars is enough to allay fears about breaching privacy.
“Although it is possible that in certain limited circumstances an image may allow the identification of an individual, it is clear that Google (is) keen to capture images of [...]
