Data Portability Facebook's Continued Push to Be Your One True Login Facebook announced this weekend that it would begin offering third-party applications and websites a way to request that users share their "current address and mobile phone number." Simple enough, right? While Facebook says that the move is intended to make it easier for users to take their information with them across the Web, members of the… Social Mike Melanson View comments
Networking IT Poll: How Much Do You Consider a Vendor's Road Map When Making a Purchasing Decision? Last week as part of the HP ISS Tech Day I had a chance to talk to Bill Haggard, director of enterprise infrastructure for the Dallas Cowboys Football Club about why the Cowboys chose HP to power its data centers. It may not seem like a professional football team would need a data center, but consider this: in addition to powering all of the 665… Enterprise Klint Finley View comments
Analysis Time, Space, Love & Hate: Live Networks What new things could we discover if social network analysis took time and space into account, in addition to the raw connections between people? In most cases, social network analysis today is limited to discovering friend connections, community leaders and outlines, influential people and personal friend recommendations - in a static or… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
mobile Battle of the Social Magazines The latest social magazine iPad app to hit the market is NewsMix, a $2.99 app that does much the same thing as the increasingly popular Flipboard. So how much chance does NewsMix have to usurp Flipboard? It's the same chance that online RSS Readers had of usurping Bloglines back in 2004-05, when Bloglines was first to market with a new type of news… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Internet of Things Official Kinect SDK Coming Microsoft's motion-control interface the Kinect has been wildly popular and has been a big hit with hacker communities using it to control all kinds of unexpected apps outside the XBox gaming system, but according to a new report today from Windows watch-dog blog Winrumors, Microsoft is preparing an official Software Developement Kit (SDK) that… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments