Facebook Skype & Facebook: Just Another Social Layer With Endless Potential Facebook and Skype are reportedly ready to announce a "deep integration partnership" that would bring Facebook closer in line with Google in terms of communication capabilities. According to Kara Swisher, who broke the story this morning, the deal would be "a significant and wide-ranging partnership that will include integration of SMS, voice… Social Mike Melanson View comments
Services Rollyo: A Fast Way to Make a Searchable Aggregator Rollyo is a simple way to "roll your own search engine". You can get started by choosing a few pre-defined categories - these contain a list of URLs that you can add to. It gets a bit more interesting though if you add your own URLs though. From the homepage, click "Create Searchroll" and you can build a custom search engine. Hack Ben Barden View comments
NYT Social Networking Users are Creating Less Content A new study from Forrester Research has found a decline in the number of content creators across social networking sites, even while general use and participation on these sites has risen. The group of users classified as "Creators" - those who record videos, post blog entries, write reviews and post comments to articles online - are less active… Social Sarah Perez View comments
Cloud Computing Why the FBI's Surveillance Proposal Could Be a Disaster for the Cloud The FBI's hopes to "wiretap" the Internet show that federal officials and the Obama administration have little understanding of its implications and further almost no understanding of the technology and the way security functions in a communications environment. It's dangerous stuff if nothing else than for its clear attempt to intrude deeper into… Alex Williams View comments
Trends Is IT-as-a-Service the Culmination of Cloud Computing? While they might not be the worst terms in cloud computing, phrases ending with "as-a-service" are certainly becoming more widespread. One of the latest: IT-as-a-service. For those who fear that adoption of cloud technologies will mean the end of their IT jobs, it's probably not a welcome idea. For others, IT-as-a-service may be seen as just… Audrey Watters View comments