Facebook bans Google’s Friend Connect
A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from Google.
One of the down-sides of this [...]
Google about to launch Flash API for Maps
Google just published a page detailing how Flash developers can now use the Google Maps ActionScript API. Unfortunately, as of right now all the samples still don’t work, but based on the documentation from a guy who has never made anything in Flash, it looks pretty easy to use.
This API lets Flex developers embed Google [...]
Google accidentally enables ratings on some Blogger accounts
Some blogger users may have noticed their blog suddenly started showing star ratings — a feature that appears to be in the works, and according to Blogger, was given by accident to some unsuspecting bloggers. The feature hasn’t been released yet, and they have “fixed” the problem.
Some users may be seeing star ratings on their [...]
Google launches Friend Connect with mixed reviews
Google announced last night that it will be launching Friend Connect — a tool that website owners can use to give their site a more social feel. Don’t worry if you have a website but you are not comfortable integrating with advanced APIs, integrating couldn’t be easier.
Visitors to any site using Google Friend Connect will [...]
HP seals EDS deal for $13.9 billion
Hewlett-Packard made it official on Tuesday: The company is buying Electronic Data Systems for $13.9 billion, or $25 a share. The acquisition will more than double HP’s services revenue.
Among the details:
The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2008.
HP will create a new business group called EDS, an HP company. EDS will [...]