Theres one thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that its a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform allows for full data portability and has since its inception. It actually isnt a walled garden at all. The problem is that this knowledge is buried deep within the FB documentation, a place few developers have wan

Basically, get creative. Its almost silly how many cool things can be done here. Is there any way to leverage group, page, or event data? Check this out: http://bigsight.org/city/nashville_tn/events. This is a display of the events that I…

OpenMoko has announced new distribution deals with hardware vendors. The agreements will make the Linux-based Freerunner mobile phone available to consumers in Europe and India.

Although the current version of the software shipped on the phone still has some rough edges and is primarily intended for developers, OpenMoko will provide updates via its web site and intends to gradually approach the point where the product is…

Developers can access any publicly available profile data from a MySpace user and integrate it into their site. This includes a users name, picture, bio, social graph (list of friends), and other information. Users authorize the data transfer via a one-time secure OAuth login to MySpace from the third party service.

this isn’t really a step forward Mike. Email addresses aren’t accessible by third-party developers, and even if they were, they can’t be stored. Shouldn’t the user be able to say “I want to…

When your SD card or camera storage device cannot be read, or you delete an important picture from your storage device by mistake, these image recovery apps can come in handy.

This is a Mac only software that promises to do what the above ones do on Windows. This image recovery tool will work only if your camera storage medium is mounted as a regular Mac storage volume. There are some cameras that do not allow this. An…

An interview with Robin Hopper the VP of Business Development of Awareness. It is a good look at social media and the enterprise. As more and more companies look to integrate social media into their sites it is good to get an understanding from one of the major players in this space.

To illustrate, one of our clients is a 100-year-old financial services company that wanted to turn on a social media community that would allow their field sales to collaborate, share best practices, etc. This group was not that…

Who Will Rule The New Internet?

A platform, to computer people, is the software code on which third-party applications function. There are scores of big platforms out there—something like three dozen in the international mobile-phone business alone. But a truly…

Advanced Micro Devices Inc is rolling out a much-awaited line-up of chips for laptops, as Intel Corp’s main rival seeks to regain a competitive footing against the world’s biggest chip maker.

PC makers using Puma chips include Acer Inc, Asus, Dell Inc, Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV and Hewlett-Packard Co, she said. Prices for the mobile PCs will be mid-range for laptops, from about $700 up to $2,000. Most will be available in…

In a bid to keep software developers in its orbit, Facebook is making its code open-source.

Intel’s Chief on Strategy, Globalization and the Price of OilIn a wide-ranging interview, Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini talks about Intel’s move into processors for smaller machines, the company’s new chip…

Sources report that Facebook will open source its Platform this week.

This kinda looks like shovelware to me, not very well thought out. OpenSocial is designed at a high level to work with many containers, it is very easy to implement, so it bolts on rather nicely to any system. It has a spec, as well as a reference…

Opera Software released the Opera Widgets SDK beta, enabling Web developers to deploy Web applications on any device!

See dev.opera.com for many more articles on using web standards.

The mobile Linux OS trade group, LiMo Foundation has announced the addition of Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg, Mozilla (the group behind the Firefox web browser), Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, SK Telecom and Verizon Wireless as new member companies.

India's BSNL Invites Bids for $6.5 Billion GSM Expansion Contract

There have been rumors since last year that Valve may be serious about porting Source games to Linux after Valve Software began seeking a senior software engineer with the responsibility of porting Windows-based games to the Linux platform.

Valve Software's other major component that they use for their own games and over time has been opened up to its licensees is Steam. Steam is Valve's digital distribution platform. The Steam client — which right now is only…

Trolltech has announced the official release of Qt 4.4, a new version of the popular open source software development toolkit.

An intriguing benefit of Qt support for Windows CE is that it will expand the ecosystem of open source software available for the operating system by enabling developers to port over existing KDE and Qt applications. I know I'd love to be…

Dying?

Nobody knows how committed Facebook is to improving the platform or the role applications are meant to play in the overall Facebook ecosystem. Signals like the reduced level of direct participation in the developer community, increasingly…