Facebook to go open source?
Blog Well, at least its application platform... According to Techcrunch, "multiple sources" have been whispering about this development, slating it for as soon as this week. What would this mean?... [23 Jun 2008]
Twitter - the clue's in the name
Blog Battling with daily info-load issues myself, I have never been much of a fan of the whole Twitter thing. The idea is fine - an extension of the status line update informal communications channel... [16 Jun 2008]
Cisco proposes open-source alternative to Soap
News The company has developed Etch as an alternative to the Soap standard — and made it open source [27 May 2008]
Web 2.0's impact on students under scrutiny
News An inquiry has been set up to examine how social-networking tech is affecting the behaviour and attitudes of students [04 Mar 2008]
Super Techies: Marc Canter 
Video Broadband Mechanics' Marc Canter discusses designing the multimedia authoring tools Shockwave and Director, and making open-source social networks [27 Feb 2008]
Mozilla may develop instant-messaging software
News The open-source organisation may add instant-messaging software to its stable of open-source applications [19 Feb 2008]
Google launches Apps for enterprise teams
News Google Apps Team Edition is aimed at businesses who want to use the online collaborative tools exclusively within an organisation's domain [07 Feb 2008]
Google and Facebook join data-sharing alliance
News The DataPortability alliance promises to enable easier identity and data management across various social-networking platforms [09 Jan 2008]
Sophos urges caution on Facebook apps
News The security company has warned it is 'obviously proving impossible' for Facebook to police potentially harmful third-party apps [08 Jan 2008]
Facebook locks out Plaxo
News The social-networking site has fought off a major-league blogger's bid to extract his contact list from the service using a utility from rival site Plaxo [04 Jan 2008]
Gmail: Past, future, and present
Video Google's Gmail product manager discusses the popular app's history and future, as well as the rebuild of the JavaScript engine and the company's approach to users' data [19 Dec 2007]
Businesses warned: Don't rush into Web 2.0
News Social-networking technology could prove to be an expensive 'white elephant' for companies, says Gartner [14 Dec 2007]
UK top for social networking in Europe
News The UK spends more time on social networking and has more broadband connections than anywhere else in Europe, Ofcom has said [13 Dec 2007]
LinkedIn invites users to develop apps
News Businesses will be able to build applications for use within the LinkedIn community, and add features to their own websites [11 Dec 2007]
Expand your email options with alternative Linux clients
Tutorial Email clients are often loaded down with too many features; sometimes a simple email client is all you need. Jack Wallen compares three Linux email-only clients [06 Dec 2007]
Microsoft launches Exchange Server 2007 SP1
News New features should improve management, add support for Windows Server 2008 and lead to better mobile security, says Microsoft [30 Nov 2007]
Hotmail co-founder launches Microsoft Office rival
News Sabeer Bhatia has launched Live Documents, an online office productivity suite that can also be used as a desktop client to wrap around Microsoft Office programs [23 Nov 2007]
Privacy watchdog warns of Facebook dangers
News The Information Commissioner's Office has warned that users of social-networking sites are putting themselves at risk of ID fraud [23 Nov 2007]
Facebook enabling tailored email attacks
News MessageLabs has warned that social-networking sites are providing cybercrooks with the information to target individuals in email attacks [21 Nov 2007]
Facebook gets open-source enterprise app
News Alfresco hopes its Facebook integration will let companies use the popular social-networking platform to help rather than hinder enterprise productivity [16 Nov 2007]
