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Facebook Looks to Open the Walled Garden Further – Facebook Connect’s Scope Likely to Expand

Facebook Looks to Open the Walled Garden Further – Facebook Connect’s Scope Likely to Expand

Facebook is now allowing more options for ’social surfing’ - its looking at allowing you to import feeds from Multiple partner sites - this probably indicates what lies ahead. This is a rip off from the FriendFeed Model

ZoomTV.in – India’s No.1 Online Video Brand?

ZoomTV.in – India’s No.1 Online Video Brand?

ZoomTV.in’s strategy presents an interesting case for those looking to distribute their video online. The strategy also presents to readers various platforms that can be used to distribute videos online. Zoom has clocked 23 Million views so far.
 
ZoomTV’s official partners online include YouTube, Rediff iShare, Blinkx, Nautanki and over 23 of the most popular Bollywood applications on social networking [...]

Facebook to Launch Jabber/XMPP Support for Chat

Facebook has announced support for chat via Jabber and XMPP. These are two of the primary standards for instant messaging protocol on the web. The new format will enable developers to integrate chat within their applications both internally and externally to Facebook. This update will also enable developers to update a user’s status via the new protocol.
 
Is Facebook [...]

Google Intends to Flip the Meaning of Social – Social Everywhere. But beware.

Google Intends to Flip the Meaning of Social – Social Everywhere. But beware.

David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect as plumbing for the rest of the web. Website owners will be able to use the hosted application to allow interactions with visitors from social-networking sites such as Facebook and Orkut, by copying and pasting snippets of code into their site.
 
“The web is getting better by getting [...]

Jaxtr Opens up the Walled Garden

Jaxtr Opens up the Walled Garden

Jaxtr, the company that lets you make and receive calls through various social networking sites such as MySpace and more recently Facebook, Orkut, Linkedin, Flickr and also blog platforms such as Blogger, Typepad etc. has now opened up its walled garden to allow users to send SMS’ to other mobile phones outside the Jaxtr network. [...]