Facebook Facebook Building Photo Filters The New York Times is reporting that Facebook plans to add photo filters to its mobile app "in the coming months," looking to challenge Instagram, Camera+ and other camera apps with built-in fancy filters. Facebook is already a dominant photo-sharing platform, and it offers much higher resolution images than Instagram - for what it's worth - but… Social Jon Mitchell View comments
News Facebook: New Privacy Provisions Won't Add Protections for Apps The latest round of privacy controls improvements from Facebook - widely perceived as a response to competition from Google+ - let members select per-item policies for literally everything they post. It's a simple, but very pervasive, set of controls that let users set limits on everything, and preview their published assets as friends and the… Hack Scott M. Fulton View comments
NYT Jux Reinvents The Blog Today, a NYC-based startup called Jux has launched a personal publishing platform that kicks a field goal right over the heads of Tumblr and the post-blogging crowd. It's a big, beautiful, dynamic tool full of splashy images and sharp Web fonts. It offers six kinds of basic posts: BlockQuote, Article, Photo, Video, SlideShow, and CountDown. You… Jon Mitchell View comments
Announcements Zoho's ManageEngine Adds New VMware Monitoring Today, Zoho's ManageEngine subsidiary announced the availability of v10 of its Applications Manager, an availability and performance monitoring software. They have added the ability to monitor vCenter and vFabrick to its list of dozens of application servers, spanning both physical and virtual infrastructures. The product will be demonstrated… Infrastructure David Strom View comments
Analysis Credit Cards Are Killing Creativity: The Case for a New Online Payments System With the rise of startups like Square, and near-field communication technology going global, we're seeing payment systems change drastically in the real world. These tools are making our lives easier and are enabling new transactions to occur that would not have been possible before. Surprisingly, however, we are not seeing much change at all… Enterprise Michael Moore-Jones View comments