Analysis LinkedIn Finally Opens Platform: The Good & Bad News Two years and a month after announcing that it would launch a more professional-looking developer platform than the wildly successful one at Facebook, LinkedIn today finally opened up a series of application programming interfaces for other companies to build on top of. Make no mistake about it, though - there's some good news and there's some bad… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News What a Rock Band Can Teach Businesses About Social Networks Chester French is a rock band that has built an application on the Force.com platform. That's compelling for the simple fact that when a rock and roll band develops its own application, you know that the market is seeing a far wider adoption than it has ever before. Even more, it's an important reminder of the advantage of building your own… Enterprise Alex Williams View comments
Google Google Brings Its Turn-By-Turn Navigation App to Older Android Phones Google just announced the launch of its Google Maps Navigation app for Android 1.6 and higher. Until now, Google's turn-by-turn navigation app was only available on Android 2.0 phones like Motorola's Droid. Now users of older Android handsets like the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and G1 can get free turn-by-turn navigation courtesy of Google. The Android… Frederic Lardinois View comments
NYT Google Acquires Teracent: Wants to Offer Smarter Display Ads Google just announced that it has acquired Teracent, a display ad company that specializes in creating customized display ads in real-time based on machine-learning algorithms. While regular display ads always look the same for every user, Teracent's ads are automatically created from multiple creative elements and can change according to factors… Frederic Lardinois View comments
News @BreakingNews: MSNBC.com Will Now Manage Twitter's Most Popular Breaking News Account BNO News, the news wire service famous for publishing breaking news stories through its @BreakingNews Twitter feed, just announced that it plans to launch a new news wire service early next year. In order to focus on this project, the BNO team will hand over the management of the @BreakingNews feed to MSNBC.com. According to BNO News, MSNBC will… Frederic Lardinois View comments