From the daily archives: Saturday, November 3, 2007

ning-a-licious

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If you’re not in the know, Ning is a great new social networking tool that enables users to create their own social networking communities. Besides being free, user-friendly and functional the folks at Ning are quick to please (seriously – you guys are quick). This morning I had an unfortunate (and annoying) incident with ads [...]

If you’re not in the know, Ning is a great new social networking tool that enables users to create their own social networking communities. Besides being free, user-friendly and functional the folks at Ning are quick to please (seriously – you guys are quick).

This morning I had an unfortunate (and annoying) incident with ads by Google. Ugh. Which decided to show up on my newly created site uninvited. An annoyance to say the least, but within minutes of emailing Ning the ads were removed. Thank you Ning!

Note: I may have spoken too soon as the ads by Google are still appearing on some of the other pages. Am I the only one finding Google a bit more creepy these days??

 

the buzz: opensocial

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Is OpenSocial really to be considered open source? Excerpt from Read/WriteWeb entitled – OpenSocial: Three Big Concerns OpenSocial is a hugely ambitious project that would tie together Google, MySpace and numerous other social networking platforms in a common environment that application publishers could publish widgets to with one set of code.There are some issues that [...]

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Is OpenSocial really to be considered open source?

Excerpt from Read/WriteWeb entitled – OpenSocial: Three Big Concerns

OpenSocial is a hugely ambitious project that would tie together Google, MySpace and numerous other social networking platforms in a common environment that application publishers could publish widgets to with one set of code.There are some issues that need to be discussed about OpenSocial, however. It’s not all a bed of roses, believe it or not.

More buzz via Wired: “Google Aims to Break Open the Closed World of Social Networking” & PC Magazine: “Will OpenSocial Open Wallets for Google?“

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