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Social Network APIs for spam control?

I'm wondering if there's a way that we can use the proliferation of social networks to solve part of the email spam problem. For instance, if you always sent mail and asked Facebook (or, hm, OpenSocial), "Hey, give me proof that so-and-so knows me?" Then, if Facebook signed that request using some simple PKI system, you'd include the sig in your email header, and you could verify it's not...

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Apache Shindig 1.0-incubating released

Apache Shindig aims to make it simple to create your own OpenSocial container by providing an open source implementation (in both Java and PHP) of the OpenSocial APIs. The Shindig team recently made creating and maintaining an OpenSocial container even easier, by publishing a release that supports OpenSocial v0.8.1. Now, instead of checking out a specific revision or trying to keep up with the ever-changing...

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Stem the 401 Tide

Some of you may have noticed that OpenSocial API calls in the sandbox have started returning 401s, regardless of whether or not you've enabled social ACLs in your gadget. We're in the process of changing a few things behind the scenes, one of which has the unfortunate side effect of breaking the ACL check. While this is straightened out, make sure to visit: http://www.google.com/ig?force_sandbox=1...

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Google News Drops Controversial Comment Feature

Two years after introducing a feature that allowed people quoted in news articles to comment on those stories in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News, Google has dropped the option. A Google spokeswoman tells paidContent, "We're always experimenting with ways to make Google News more useful. Occasionally, this means we have to re-evaluate our efforts to be sure we focus on features that make the most sense...

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The MySpace Exodus Continues: SVP Engineering Allen Hurff Jumps Ship

Around this time last year we saw a stream of high ranking employees leaving Yahoo as the web portal reached new lows following the fumbled Microsoft deal. Now, we're beginning to see a similar trend from MySpace, the once-shining social network that has been recently hit by stagnating growth, waves of layoffs (both in the US and abroad ), and the ousting of its co-founder CEO. The latest member of...

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Xing brings real-time Twitter search to its social network

Real-time search is all the buzz but increasingly and the focus is on Twitter in this area. But increasingly, some of the most useful Twitter real-time search products aren't on Twitter. XING, a social network for professionals that counts more than 7m members, is a good example of that. Last week, it rolled out a real-time Twitter search app for its members called Twitter Buzz. Twitter Buzz , like...

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U.S. Government Reaches Out to the Social Web for Collaboration, But Are Users Reaching Back?

In the quest to open government processes to citizens, collaboration and participation were identified as explicit goals in a presidential memo issued earlier this year. Upon the appearance of a tenuously connected web of blogs, sites, wikis, and forums, many were excited about the refreshing availability of public channels for dialogue between ordinary Americans and policy makers when it comes to...

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Googler Prashant Fuloria joins Facebook, working on monetization

Google product management director Prashant Fuloria quietly slipped across Highway 101 last month, from the Googleplex in Mountain View to Facebook's new headquarters in Palo Alto, as Inside Facebook first reported today. He's keeping the same title, and a somewhat similar focus. At Facebook, he'll be helping to lead general monetization product development, including the social network's still-young...

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A new addition to the OpenSocial family - the ActionScript3 client library!

The current generation of social applications has become increasingly interesting and attractive, with many apps sporting fancy animation effects and complex user interactions. One exciting result of this trend is the growing number of ActionScript developers in the community. To support the development of OpenSocial apps using ActionScript, we are happy to introduce a new client library which exposes...

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Google mocks Bing and the stuff behind it

Structure 09 Google has openly ridiculed Microsoft's entire approach to online infrastructure , while taking some wonderfully sly shots at the company's new decision engine search engine . The undeniable highlight of Thursday's cloud-happy Structure 09 conference was Vijay Gill, Google senior manager of engineering and architecture. As he described how Google's famously distributed infrastructure...

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Virsto packs away $7M for virtual storage space

Virsto Software, creator of virtual storage space, has brought in $7 million in a first round of funding, giving makers of server virtualization equipment a boost, reports VentureWire. Based in Mountain View, Calif., the company says its products are capable of managing any storage issues arising from server virtualization, but has yet to release specifics . August Capital led the recent round of...

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StevieB’s Shared Items – June 26, 2009

GIMP - An Introduction June 25, 2009 WSJ publisher practicing ‘digital stupidity’ June 25, 2009 Warn Users of Malware on Facebook - Get Banned? June 25, 2009 XING + Twitter + OpenSocial = Twitter Buzz, brought to you by team socialmedian June 25, 2009 ACLU sues TSA for illegally detaining and searching man carrying $4,700 in cash June 25, 2009 20 Effective Reflection Photos June 25, 2009...

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XING + Twitter + OpenSocial = Twitter Buzz, brought to you by team socialmedian

Team socialmedian strikes again with our 3rd application on XING since XING acquired socialmedian in January 2009.The newest application: Twitter Buzz.In recent months, we've launched a number of features with a single goal: Making XING even more valuable for as many of our members as possible. We listened to member feedback, and put priority on releasing exactly those features which will add the most...

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RealPlayer SP Makes Mobile Video Seamless and Social

We're in the midst of a mobile video revolution. A new generation of phones led by the iPhone , AndroidAndroid, and BlackBerry offer ample storage space for videos, full-length touchscreens, and most of all, the convenience of being portable. While there is a lot of video content available on the social web , a vast majority of it isn't available in a mobile format . About the only options are videos...

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Why Enterprise Software Provider Atlassian Chose OpenSocial

Hi, I'm Mark Halvorson the "Chief Imagineer" at Atlassian Software. Whenever I tell people my title it is usually received in one of two ways - a chuckle and a blank stare, or for those in the know some comment about Walt Disney. No, I don't make rides for an amusement park, but I do get to imagine inventive ways to combine thorny, enterprise challenges with some of the exciting things happening...

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Want Cost-Effective Promotion? Don’t delay!!! Get you application from |Open social Factory|

Want Cost-Effective Promotion? Don’t delay!!! Get you application from |Open social Factory| - arnoldsmithh

Earlier, I was not very frequent user of My space but now I have realized that I am gradually addicted to My Space social applications which include exciting game, quizzes, gifts application etc. Different companies ask applications developers to design such applications which are well relevant to their businesses. Let suppose if you are a beverages making company then your drinking gifts application...

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Business Promotion isn’t that easy before!!!!!! |open social factor|

Are you any management consulting company'? Or an IT block going to introduce your new software… or may be an event management firm planning for an upcoming event… huh? Probably you are planning to inform your clients and prospects for the new happening or may be you are just intending to mingle in the business jungle oo lala (humming) … WHAT SO EVER… Get set go for some excited apps which are going...

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