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Facebook: “Android sucks, it doesn’t matter”

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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TechCrunch reports that the lack of an Android Facebook app in the Android Market Place is not a mistake and you probably don’t want to hold your breath waiting. Apparently the bad blood between Google and Facebook started when Facebook chose Microsoft as it’s advertising partner; in and of itself, not that bad of a move. [...]

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Google Finishes Home Before Sony Does with Lively

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

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If you are a Sony PS3 owner, you have possibly been waiting for the introduction of Home for about a year now. You were waiting for it in 2007 or Early 2008 when it was suppose to first come out, and now you are waiting for it again later this year; assuming it makes that [...]

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HUD from Contact Lenses with Embedded LEDs

Monday, July 7, 2008

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Pictured above is a prototype contact lens developed by Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor (Assistant?! More like… crazy-awesome) Babak Parviz out of the University of Washington. While I don’t believe the prototype can currently project a full-view HUD ontop of what you are looking at, Parviz is focusing on embedding LEDs into the lens to get the [...]

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Google Friend Connect - Social Networking for Every Site

Monday, May 12, 2008

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Laurence Hartje sends in some freaking cool news: Google has launched it’s new Friend Connect (Link will go live tonight) social networking service for everyone. This isn’t another Okurt, but rather social networking infrastructure that can seamlessly be integrated into any and all websites, allowing users all visiting the same sites to gab about them [...]

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Google Common Social Networking APIs

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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John Hering sent in news that Google is prepping it’s launch of OpenSocial Thursday. The interesting think here is that OpenSocial isn’t another social networking service, but instead is a common set of APIs used to develop software against any social networking site participating in the OpenSocial community. Think of this like OpenID, but instead of identification [...]

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