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Gmail's New API: Email as Enterprise Platform
Google has announced the availability of a new Application Programming Interface (API) that allows 3rd party services to offer contextually relevant content and functionality inside the email interface of Google Apps Gmail users. It's just the latest sign that the email sector is heating up again. If you've noticed the way that certain Google properties like ...
New Tool Highlights Facebook Users' Disregard for Privacy
Think your Facebook profile is private? You had better double-check. A new website provides a voyeuristic look into the once-private social network by making Facebook status updates searchable. “My boss is a jerk and always tells me what I'm doing wrong!", posts one user who we'll be kind enough to not name (although her full name ...
Rejections and Careers Are Getting Shorter
Biz discovers it's a cold, cruel twitterverse. To save you time, here's a summary of this column: Tweets are in, manners are out. Let me elaborate for those readers with pre-Twitter patience: In Hollywood, the process of rejection is becoming colder and more abrupt. And rejection is what most communications are all about. Talk ...
YouTube at 5
In just five years, YouTube became the go-to video site YouTube had an extra-special Valentine's Day this year. Chad Hurley, YouTube co-founder and current CEO, announced that on Sunday, the site officially turned 5 years old. “When we registered the YouTube domain on February 14, 2005, we set out to create a place where anyone with ...
Worlds Largest Social Network: The Open Web
ON its Web site, Facebook says its giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. But the online world outside of Facebook is already a very open and connected place, thank you very much. Densely interlinked Web pages, blogs, news articles and Tweets are all visible to anyone and everyone. ...
Twitter Forefather Leaves, Aims to Disrupt Banking Next
Imagine a web-based bank that let you deposit checks by simply photographing them with its mobile app. It lets you make cash withdrawals from ATMs all over the country at no cost, sometimes even re-embursing you for fees you get charged by other companies. As a social web application, the bank offers you all kinds of ...
John and Julie and Julia
Julia Child made me a blogger. At the beginning of this year, I watched Julie & Julia. For those of you unfamiliar with the film, it concerns a young woman in Queens, Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams), who is feeling that her life has stagnated. To break out of her doldrums, she decides to cook ...
Google Data Admission Angers European Officials
European privacy regulators and advocates reacted angrily Saturday to the disclosure by Google, the world's largest search engine, that it had systematically collected private data since 2006 while compiling its Street View photo archive. After being pressed by European officials about the kind of data the company compiled in creating the archive -- and what it ...
Search Warrant and Affidavit Detail Apple's Role in Missing-iPhone Investigation
The search warrant and affidavit unsealed at the request of The Times and other media outlets sheds more light on a case that has generated a great deal of public interest in Apple Inc.'s role in the investigation of its missing prototype iPhone. According to the search warrant, Apple CEO Steve Jobs contacted technology blog Gizmodo.com ...
Apple Factory Worker Kills Himself After Disappearance of iPhone Prototype Last July
An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after his house was raided and he was allegedly beaten up following the disappearance of an iPhone prototype. Responding to the allegations (Wednesday 22 July 2009), Apple gave a subtle warning to its suppliers, insisting they are required to treat workers with dignity and ...
