Google, Yahoo Join in The Tangled (Open)Social Web
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has joined forces with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and MySpace to announce the OpenSocial Foundation, a nonprofit venture to support the development of portable, interoperable applications under the OpenSocial standard.
This comes the same day that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced it is adding to the Windows Live platform the ability to share contact information with friends on five social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo, Hi5 and Tagged.
By far the more significant announcement, the OpenSocial Foundation makes unlikely allies out of longtime competitors Yahoo and Google. In recent weeks, Yahoo has been making a lot of noise about giving developers access to its search, e-mail and mobile applications.
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Microsoft Sees Windows Gaining Smartphone Share
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) expects license sales of its Windows Mobile operating system to outpace the overall growth in advanced mobile phones known as smartphones over the next few years, a top company executive said on Monday.
Microsoft entertainment and devices division president Robbie Bach said he expects phones running Windows Mobile to gain market share as the overall smartphone market nearly quadruples in size over the next three to four years to around 400 million handsets.
“I certainly think you should expect us to continue to gain share,” said Bach in an interview with Reuters. “The market is starting to take off within the category that we really play in.
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Yahoo Gets REAL About Job Searches
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
Yahoo Gets REAL About Job Searches
In an effort to improve access to job seekers and assist recruiters, Yahoo announced today the launch of “R.E.A.L., a patent pending search ranking system that is based on Relevance, Engagement, Availability and Location,” a company press release detailed.
Yahoo explained the process thus:
R.E.A.L. is an industry-first search algorithm that builds on an innovative set of principles derived from Yahoo!’s research in Web search technology. Leveraging Yahoo!’s behavioral targeting and search optimization strengths to rank job listings based on user engagement, R.E.A.L. has moved Yahoo!
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Booming Archiving Market to Evolve Beyond E-mail
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
Compliance mandates and efforts to better document business interactions are helping to more than triple the $1.7 billion market for e-mail archiving technology by 2012 — while also setting the stage for dramatic change in the space, a study finds.
As e-mail archiving swells to a booming $6.6 billion market within four years, it’s also undergoing a sizable shift away from its roots, according to a new report from the Radicati Group, an analyst firm.
Far from simply storing old e-mails, archiving products are morphing into multifaceted solutions, helping enterprises develop knowledge databases and improve customer service.
For one thing, enterprises are seeking to cope with the threat of a deluge of data.
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Google, Yahoo & MySpace Team Up for OpenSocial
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
Google, Yahoo & MySpace Team Up for OpenSocial Yahoo, MySpace and Google have pledged their support to open standards for social media development and data by joining together to form the OpenSocial Foundation. The group will ensure that OpenSocial continues as an open, community-governed specification. OpenSocial is a specification, launched by Google last year, that defines a common API for social applications across multiple Web sites. It has implications for search marketers and application developers, since it will speed up the development of cross-platform applications. It could also force the hand of non-members, such as Microsoft and Facebook. (Read the full post about ‘Google, Yahoo & MySpace Team Up for OpenSocial’…)
Microsoft Tries to Compete with OpenSocial
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
Microsoft Tries to Compete with OpenSocial
Microsoft, in an clear attempt to compete with Google’s OpenSocial, has announced a partnership to create data portability across 5 social networking sites. Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, Tagged and LinkedIn are all part of the arrangement, which will “exchange functionally-similar Contacts APIs.” Microsoft says the move will allow them to create a safe, secure two-way method for users of the sites to move their relationships among the respective services.
Microsoft is including Windows Live Messenger in the mix. Invite2messenger.net was developed to help users invite their friends from the five social networks to join their Windows Live Messenger contact list, if they have one.
What’s unclear is what Microsoft would do with Yahoo if the proposed acquisition takes place.
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IBM Takes Stake in Open Source Database Vendor
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
For more than a decade, PostgreSQL has been a cornerstone of the open source database market. In recent years, EnterpriseDB has emerged as a leading vendor supporting and driving PostgreSQL forward.
It will now continue its efforts thanks in part from a little help from IBM (NYSE: IBM). EnterpriseDB is also re-branding and expanding its PostgreSQL efforts to take even more direct aim at its rival MySQL on the open source side and Oracle on the proprietary side.
IBM is joining EnterpriseDB’s C round of venture financing which in total raises $10 million for the open source database vendor.
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Sony Preps ‘Net Access Features For Blu-Ray
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is targeting April 8 as the date it will release its first batch of Blu-ray Disc titles that can be connected to the Internet for more bonus materials and features.
The musical spoof “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” and the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi thriller “The 6th Day” will be the studio’s first two BD-Live titles.
Their release coincides with the launch of a new software update for Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 3 that makes the game console the first Blu-ray player with Internet connectivity, an ability known as “Profile 2.0.”
Ultimately, all Blu-ray players will be Profile 2.0.
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Survey: Devs Dip Into Both Open, Closed Apps
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
If you thought that most open source developers work for open source companies, you might well be wrong. According to a survey from open source services vendor OpenLogic, 50 percent of its respondents actually work for a proprietary vendor.
The OpenLogic study aims to put into focus why people contribute to open source in the first place and though money is an issue it’s not the only issue.
The OpenLogic study was carried out by polling members of the OpenLogic expert community, which is a group of individuals that provides support and commercial assistance on open source technologies to OpenLogic customers.
Only 6 percent of study respondents identified themselves as working for an open source company.
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Google’s New Wifi Push Will Drive Mobile Search
Autor admin | 25.03.2008 | Category SEO
Google’s New Wifi Push Will Drive Mobile Search
There’s unused “white space” lying between the regulated TV signals and Google has big plans for them. In new lobbying effort, Google is asking the FCC to auction the unused airwaves. The search giant hopes to use any airwaves it wins to establish faster internet access that has a wider reach.
Expanding Wifi will have major implications for mobile search. If the FCC goes along with the request, and if Google wins airwaves, then devices supporting the technology will be out as early as next year. Should all of this happen, get ready for mobile monetization.
Google has some obstacles in convincing the FCC of its plan.
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