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Google Friend Connect already unravelling?
Blog Facebook has written a blog post revealing they have banned Google Friend Connect from accessing its API and access to user data on its site. TechCrunch has revealed that Facebook believes that Friend Connect breaches its Terms of Service by...
[May 16, 2008, 10:48]
Does Facebook Connect help enable broadcast 3.0?
Blog So it with some chagrin that I must bow to the existence of Facebook Connect, a developer site that hosts APIs for developers to plug into and pull from the Facebook user base with their own apps should they choose to.
[December 10, 2009, 7:34]
OpenID and Facebook Connect: actually, does there need to be a winner?
Blog Website owners have been watching the battle between the open standards based OpenID and proprietary Facebook Connect for over a year now, waiting for a winner. Like many, we've been holding off implementing either OpenID or Facebook Connect until...
[February 20, 2009, 15:08]
Google Friend Connect increases spam risk
Blog It's too easy to send unsolicited messages using Google Friend Connect without knowing it. We added a test page to our website this week so I could try out Google Friend Connect, as I wanted to see for myself what the implications were for...
[December 8, 2008, 7:23]
Facebook Connect squares up to Google, OpenID and OpenSocial (again)
Blog It was May when Facebook Connect was first announced with the aim of "socialising" any website. I've written about Facebook Connect and Google's rival Friend Connect before, shortly after they were announced and then by mention a few months ago at...
[December 2, 2008, 12:35]
If it takes ten minutes why not add blogs and social networking to a site?
Blog Earlier this month Google announced Friend Connect, hosted, very easily added social networking web applets that add blog comment and (at present, basic) social networking facilities to any web site for free.
[January 7, 2009, 7:03]
MobileMoney Africa:Interview with Menekse Gencer of MpayConnect
Blog mPay Connect provides strategic, product planning, and business development consulting services to clients interested in offering mobile financial services to their customers.mPay Connect is experienced in serving clients with banked and unbanked...
[May 22, 2009, 12:02]
Unified login, CRM 2.0 take small steps forward
Blog Important announcements this week to help OpenID catch Facebook Connect; and to help bring Facebook and Salesforce.com closer to delivering CRM 2.0. I wrote at the end of last year about how Facebook Connect was winning the race to get close to a...
[March 16, 2009, 8:36]
Google and Data Portability: a two pronged approach or fork in the road?
Blog Google announces enhancements to Google Friend Connect while also showing another way of remote login and bringing over contacts at an OpenID meeting hosted by Facebook. Pretty lame stuff compared to a more functional and useful Facebook Connect.
[February 13, 2009, 10:50]
Oracle is not the only database
Blog DataDirect’s latest Connect 4.0 database drivers for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) have been released in a new standard format that the company says will support application failover in any database, for the first time.
[September 1, 2008, 23:20]
Ubuntu Mobile Broadband Disappointment
Blog Some time ago I wrote about using mobile broadband with Ubuntu, and I was very hopeful at that time that it would soon be "plug in and click to connect". Furthermore, once I have connected using wvdial (and disconnected again, of course), if I...
[December 8, 2008, 10:38]
Internet The Most Important Tool For Small Business Survival
Blog It had barely been invented when the UK was last in recession, but less than 20 years later, the Internet is providing a life line to small businesses fighting the recession; 45% of small businesses surveyed by Easynet Connect believe the Internet...
[July 17, 2009, 20:03]
Wireless Networking - Linksys WRT350N and Intel 4965AGN
Blog When I am running Windows Vista Business, it won't connect. But now I have found that it will also not connect when I am running Ubuntu, Mandriva or Fedora Linux. Ok, this is driving me crazy. Why does this not work?
[November 12, 2008, 7:35]
Netgear WNDR3300 RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router
Blog All of the devices that I connect also happily accepted the 64-digit key, so I suppose this is some sort of bug or limitation in the Linksys router. This will not be anything like a comprehensive "review", as I don't use things like the Setup...
[August 4, 2008, 9:32]
Wireless docking finally arrives
Blog This uses Wireless USB to connect your notebook to the docking station and give you access to whatever is plugged into the six USB ports, microphone and speaker jacks, Ethernet connection (though only 10/100Mbit ) and VGA or DVI video on up to...
[September 30, 2009, 19:46]
Microsoft Terminal Services Compatibility Analyser
Blog On the Microsoft BETA site (http://connect.microsoft.com/) there has been a new "addition" to the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT, Version 5); the Terminal Services Compatibility toolkit.
[October 19, 2009, 9:10]
Will Tandberg give Cisco's Telepresence more definition?
Blog To my mind, Halo has two advantages over Cisco; one, the camera is hidden so it doesn't break the illusion every time you look up and two, you can connect from one Halo room to another Halo room anywhere in the world.
[October 5, 2009, 9:45]
Gyration Air Mouse
Blog Plug the provided dongle into a USB port, hit its Connect button, hit the Connect button on the mouse, and you are in business. Mice fascinate me. I don’t mean the little furry mammals, though actually they do fascinate me.
[November 3, 2009, 14:30]
LinkedIn and the one way street on social graph portability
Blog But in spite of a large number of movers and shakers in social networking being present at the meeting and supportive of the standards based technologies -- and many web properties are already offering limited data portability on their sites, be...
[April 2, 2009, 14:02]
Slipping through the digital net
Blog This was more of a problem than I imagined when I dialled up BT -- there is no way to connect to a live human if you have a pulse handset. There is no way to connect to a live human unless you speak. Having just moved house, I had the interesting...
[December 1, 2008, 7:46]
