<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest News from OPEN WEB DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/</link><description>Latest News from OPEN WEB DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</description><copyright>Copyright 2008 SYS-CON Media Inc.</copyright><generator>OPEN WEB DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:36:00 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest News from OPEN WEB DEVELOPER&apos;S JOURNAL</title><url>http://res.sys-con.com/section/151/openwebDEVELOPER.jpg</url><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Virtualization - Dell Goes to the Well, So To Speak</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540636.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540636.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540636_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Dell is talking with Tecom Investments, an investment arm of the Dubai government, about a joint venture that could raise Dell's sales profile in the Middle East. Michael Dell mentioned it at a press conference in Dubai but offered no details and early reports suggested Dubai was going to make a direct investment in Dell a la AMD, which may be what happens. Both Dow Jones and Bloomberg quote Michael Dell as saying he?d welcome an investment from the oil-rich emirate. Local papers quote Telcom CEO Abdulatif Almulla as saying, 'We are considering some strategic initiatives.']]></description></item><item><title>Novell PlateSpin Named &quot;Gold Sponsor&quot; of Virtualization Conference &amp; Expo</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/519762.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/519762.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/519762_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[PlateSpin provides a unified suite of solutions to help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. PlateSpin's patent-pending workload profiling and portability technology liberates software from hardware and streams server workloads (data, applications and operating systems) over the network between physical and virtual infrastructures. The freedom to drag and drop workloads onto the physical or virtual hosts where they will run most efficiently ensures the best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands. Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs, boost operational efficiencies and solve today's most pressing data center challenges including server consolidation, hardware migration and disaster recovery.]]></description></item><item><title>Another Start-up, Another Desktop Virtualization Scheme</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/558114.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/558114.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/558114_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[MokaFive, another me-too desktop virtualization company, this one started in 2005 by three Stanford PhDs and their professor, Moka chief scientist Monica Lam, is in the process of pushing out its widgetry, which works on Windows, Mac and Linux. It started going commercial a few weeks ago with a preview paid for by angel money supplied by Sun founder Vinod Khosla and Sun's old strategy chief Bill Raduchel.]]></description></item><item><title>Zoho Claims Google Was Salesforce&apos;s Second Choice</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546700.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546700.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546700_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Zoho's resident blogger and CEO of its parent company AdventNet, Sridhar Vembu, was dumping on Salesforce - an understandable exercise since Zoho's stash of SaaS Office-wannabe productivity programs includes a Salesforce rival CRM module - when he happened to mention that Benioff, Salesforce's CEO, had tried to buy Zoho. Benioff likes to position Microsoft as old-fashioned and passé. Vembu uses the same dictionary when talking about Salesforce.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Shares Gallop Thru $500</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546697.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546697.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546697_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It looks like Google is back on track to be that $1,000 stock. Having been in the $400 doldrums since February 22, it crashed through $500 and clear into the $520s, up over 75 bucks in after-hours trading Thursday on the strength of its over-the-top Q1 results and the fact that its US paid-clicks were up 20% year-over-year.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Reports 31% Profits Increase in First Quarter of 2008</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546501.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546501.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/546501_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[After a better-than-expected quarterly earnings report called 'amazingly good' by the New York Times, it would seem that Google is defying macro-economic downtrend. 'It's clear we are well positioned for 2008 and beyond, regardless of the business environment we are surrounded by,' said Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Cultivates an Ecosystem</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540570.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540570.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540570_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google has ripped a page out of Salesforce.com's handbook and has started up an AppExchange-like Solutions Marketplace site to cultivate third-party programs that complement its own widgetry, initially stuff like Google Apps and enterprise search. But Google says it expects it to 'grow to fit the needs of an expanding set of Google customers and developers.']]></description></item><item><title>Google Plays the Platform Game</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540569.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540569.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/540569_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Monday evening, at a gathering called Campfire One, Google unveiled App Engine, a hosted web application platform that offers web developers free use of Google's mighty infrastructure and all the building blocks that Google uses for its own applications. Amusingly, it's as vendor lock-in and importable as anything Microsoft in its heyday ever dreamed up. That, however, didn't stop Google from immediately filling the 10,000 spaces it made available for App Engine's initial beta.]]></description></item><item><title>Will comScore Prove Prophetic for Google?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/545065.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/545065.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/545065_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google's paid-clicks in the US, the source of its fortune, showed weak, almost imperceptible growth for the third month in a row, according to comScore, just a couple of days before Google was scheduled to post its Q1 financial results. The tabulator says they were up only 2.7% in March and just 1.8% for the whole first quarter, a nasty, nasty drop from the 48% it supposedly recorded in the third quarter of last year or even its 25% growth in the fourth quarter.]]></description></item><item><title>Google &amp; Salesforce Clouds Collide Over Redmond</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/542510.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/542510.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/542510_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The widely rumored mating of Salesforce.com and Google Apps has taken place. There is now something called Salesforce for Google Apps; Google's productivity programs have been integrated into Salesforce's CRM suite - so data in one can be moved into the other and vice versa - in hopes - or so it is said - of creating a thunderhead that eventually rains all over Microsoft's parade.]]></description></item><item><title>Early Notes on GoogleApps</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/538210.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/538210.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/538210_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to get an app running. What you're going to see here that you've never seen before is shrinkwrap net apps that scale that can be deployed by civillians. That's a mouthful, but that's what's coming. Why? Because here is a standardized platform that can be stamped out in the billions of units. Maybe Google can't do it, but the perception is that they can. Who is willing to stand up and say Google hasn't nailed scaling? What PCs did in the 80s, Google is doing now. PCs took the black magic out of owning a computer.]]></description></item><item><title>Google VP of Engineering To Become EMI Music&apos;s New President of Digital</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/533767.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/533767.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/533767_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Douglas Merrill, Google VP of Engineering, is leaving Google to become EMI Music's new President of Digital. Merrill joined Google late in 2003 as Senior Director of Information Systems. In this capacity he led multiple strategic efforts including Google?s 2004 IPO and its related regulatory activities. He holds direct line accountability for all internal engineering and support worldwide.]]></description></item><item><title>ASF Grants Synapse Separate, Top-Level Project Billing</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/506194.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/506194.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/506194_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Even if the announcement that Apache Software Foundation (ASF) granted Synapse separate, top-level project billing last week didn't generate major waves of uproar of reaction and commentary, it remains a significant move to the overall state of a burgeoning open source SOA arena. Initially, after first catching wind of Synapse in early spring of last year, I was thrown off slightly by some of the divergent descriptions/understandings of the effort that were floating around the web and as is the case with incubated open source projects it was a rapidly changing code base looking to grow in a more concisely defined direction over time.]]></description></item><item><title>DreamSpark Is Very, Very, Very Un-Microsoft-Like!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/505624.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/505624.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/505624_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The DreamSpark program is one of the newest initiatives to come out of Redmond that are very, very un-Microsoft-like. I'll talk about another later in this post. It appears as though University and high school students will, at some point (I don't know the hardcore details) be able to receive free copies of Visual Studio, SQL server, and other development servers and enterprise servers. They can use these for non-commercial uses free of charge.]]></description></item><item><title>Washington Shoots Down 3Com Acquisition Deal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/504454.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/504454.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/504454_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Washington gagged at the thought of Huawei Technologies Co., China's largest telecommunications equipment maker and reportedly closely tied to China's military, owning a minority stake in 3Com and so 3Com's deal to get bought for $2.2 billion cash and taken private by Bain Capital Partners has been shot down on national security concerns.]]></description></item><item><title>Krugle Makes Code Search OpenAPI Available for Partners</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/499987.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/499987.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/499987_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Krugle, the company that provides code search for the world's leading developer networks, including IBM developerWorks, CollabNet, SourceForge.net, and Yahoo! Developer Network, has announced the availability of its OpenAPI for partners. 'With the opening of this interface, Krugle is better able to serve the needs of its developer network partners,' said Matt Graney, senior director of product management, Krugle.]]></description></item><item><title>Consumer Internet Startups: What Comes After the &quot;TechCrunch Bump&quot;?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/498962.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/498962.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/498962_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I see many consumer Internet pitches these days where the basic marketing strategy is to (1) get covered by TechCrunch, (2) get tens of thousands of users from the 'TechCrunch Bump,' and then (3) 'grow virally.' While a positive TechCrunch review has the potential to send thousands of consumers your way, it does not represent a marketing plan. Munjal Shah at Riya found this out after the launch of Riya back in 2006, when he wrote about 'the cocaine-like high and subsequent crash of the Techcrunch effect.']]></description></item><item><title>Tracking RIAs with Google Analytics and Unica NetInsight</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491743.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491743.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491743_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[All this talk about 'the death of the page view,' 'AJAX,' 'rich media,' 'engagement,' and 'events' is enough to make even the most savvy Web analyst think twice about what we're measuring these days.  When you use Google Maps, the name of the page doesn't change. (So now you see where all that page view death conversation comes from.) 'Traditional' web analytics care about when the page name changes - they see that as an important event. Suddenly, that's changed.]]></description></item><item><title>The Greatest IT Bottleneck of Them All Is Finally Falling: Vendor Lock-in</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/494172.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/494172.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/494172_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One of the most exciting things about the software industry is how fast it moves. Software is constantly optimizing itself around the state-of-the-art. Inherent industry bottlenecks change cyclically every five years or so. Architectures and solutions change too. CPUs too costly? Enter dumb terminals. Network running slow? Build client/servers.]]></description></item><item><title>i-Technology Milestone: The Domain Name System (DNS) Turns 25 This Week</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491998.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491998.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/491998_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[When the Domain Name System (DNS) was created 25 years ago, eight years before the introduction of the World Wide Web, a few hundred machines were connected to the Internet. Today more than 130 million are connected, and this number is expected to grow substantially as the majority of the world's population goes online. Without a simplified naming scheme like DNS today's Internet would not exist.]]></description></item><item><title>IT Mill Integrates Google Web Toolkit</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484389.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484389.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/484389_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[IT Mill Ltd has released version 5.0 of its IT Mill Toolkit under the Apache 2.0 open source license. With IT Mill Toolkit 5 developers now have the building blocks for RIAs that will allow them to work with Java alone. Toolkit 5.0 unites client-side AJAX tools with server-side Java tools, shortening the RIA development cycle.]]></description></item><item><title>Why Microsoft Loves Google Android, Take 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478686.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478686.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478686_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Android is not bad like world hunger is bad, it's just not good for existing Java standards. My main thesis is this: If Android succeeds as it is currently defined then the entire Java platform, including Java SE, is in trouble. Android's success sends a clear message: Standardization of Java is not important; Write once, run anywhere is not important. That's the antithesis of what the Java platform is all about.]]></description></item><item><title>FTC OKs Google-DoubleClick Merger</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478617.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478617.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478617_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission this morning gave Google a Christmas present and approved its controversial $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick over the objections of competitors like Microsoft, Yahoo and AT&T - and the massed privacy front. The 4-to-1 vote came after the head of the Federal Trade Commission, Deborah Platt Majoras, refused to bow to pressure from the Electronic Privacy Center (EPC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and recuse herself from the agency's review of the deal. That review centered on the acquisition's antitrust implications. Privacy concerns were not part of the decision. The FTC figures the deal is 'unlikely to substantially lessen competition.']]></description></item><item><title>Federal Trade Commission Clears Google&apos;s Acquisition of DoubleClick</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478263.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478263.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/478263_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google welcomed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's clearance of its planned acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., a premier provider of display ad serving technology and services.  Google announced in April 2007 a definitive agreement to acquire the company for $3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management.]]></description></item><item><title>New Report Discusses Google Android and Funambol Open Source Impact on Mass Market for Mobile Email</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/477719.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/477719.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/477719_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Funambol announced the availability of a free Funambol position paper entitled 'How Google Android Stimulates the Mass Market for Mobile Email and how Funambol Mobile Open Source Monetizes It'. The paper discusses how Android will spur adoption of mobile email by large numbers of people and how Android and Funambol can transform the market.]]></description></item><item><title>Open Web Developer Summit to Take Place April 21-22, 2008 in New York City</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471968.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471968.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471968_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (http://openweb.sys-con.com) and 'Open Web Developer Summit' (http://openweb.sys-con.com) - to be held for the first time in New York City April 21-22, 2008.]]></description></item><item><title>SMobile Predicts Spike in Mobile Viruses Once Google Phone Hits the Market</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471793.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471793.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471793_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[According to SMobile Systems, the launch of Google Phone platform will be among the most positive transformational moments in mobile communications history by further merging computers with mobile devices. But while millions of people will now be able to 'compute on the run,' those same consumers will be a high-value target for hackers, spammers and others intent on hacking the new phones.]]></description></item><item><title>emoze&apos;s Push-Email Upgrade Supports Google Apps</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471828.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471828.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471828_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[emoze has upgraded its free software that provides secure push email to mobile phones all over the world, to support Google Apps. This service from Google enables consumers and businesses to use their own custom domain names with several Google products.]]></description></item><item><title>SMobile Systems&apos; Security Solution for Google&apos;s Android</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472661.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472661.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472661_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[SMobile Systems has created a mobile security solution for devices coming to market using the Android platform, the Google-initiated, Linux-based open source mobile operating system. On Monday, November 12, the Open Handset Alliance released the Android's software development kit. SMobile's team of security engineers immediately went to work to create a security solution designed specifically for the platform.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Maps Are A Bit Broken Right Now</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472237.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472237.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/472237_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[It seems that Google Maps are a bit broken right now. In the 'Screen Shot 1' you can see that I got two hits for the same store, differing only that one has the word 'The' in the name. Excluding abbreviations, their addresses are the same although one has the unit # while the other just the address. One also lists a local number while the other an 800 number.]]></description></item><item><title>db4objects Announces db4o Database as Android Ready</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471443.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471443.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/471443_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[db4objects announced that db4o runs seamlessly on the Android platform, a software stack for mobile devices introduced recently by the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance. The Android stack comes complete with application framework, development environment, tools, debuggers and vital applications for developers to leverage and create applications.]]></description></item><item><title>Will Google&apos;s Android Sink or Swim?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/465880.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/465880.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/465880_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[My money is on targeting iPhones and WM devices until Android actually shows up live and in the wild on more than 500,000 devices. Also, don't be fooled about the Android developer challenge. That's not $10million in prize money, that's a $10 million bribe in order to obtain the critical mass of engaged developers they know will be required for anything useful to come out of the Android project. If they don't have truckloads of developers begging to get their apps onto the phone, their framework will fail and all the mobile partners will go back to business as usual.]]></description></item><item><title>Why Microsoft Loves Google&apos;s Android</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467328.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467328.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467328_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[You won't hear Microsoft say this out loud, but secretly they are celebrating Google's contribution of the Android mobile phone platform to the Open Handset Alliance. At least they ought to be. Android is perhaps the best thing to happen to Microsoft since they won the browser wars in the 1990s.]]></description></item><item><title>Credit Suisse Says Google&apos;s Good for $900</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467885.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467885.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/467885_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Credit Suisse has pushed its 12-month price target on Google from $800 to $900, causing the stock to regain some of the 125 bucks it's lost to the market roiling since Google grazed $750 earlier this month. Most of Wall Street believes in its heart that Google will see a dizzying $1,000 but few have written it down. Credit Suisse analyst Heath Terry believes Google will drive out all contenders and effectively own 100% of search, which he describes as a 'natural monopoly,' and that all advertising, including TV, radio and outdoor, will eventually go digital using Google as its 'de facto operating system.' He is figuring on upwards of 35% sales growth over the next five years and at least 30% earnings growth.]]></description></item><item><title>Google To Take Online Storage World By Storm</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/466978.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/466978.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/466978_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[According to the Wall Street Journal this morning Google's preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives - such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images. Or, as CBS News says it, 'Google Wants To Be Your Hard Drive.']]></description></item><item><title>Wireless Google - Next Steps: Bidding for a $4.6BN Chunk of Spectrum from the FCC</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/462908.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/462908.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/462908_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A Google spokesman told the Wall Street Journal today that Google is 'making all the necessary preparations to become an applicant to bid' for a chunk of 700MHz spectrum from the FCC. 'Our goal is to make sure that American consumers have more choices in an open and competitive wireless world,' the spokesman continued.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Announces $10 Million Android Developer Challenge</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/459518.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/459518.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/459518_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[The Android Developer Challenge will provide $10 million to developers who build mobile applications for Android, a complete, open, and free mobile platform. The Challenge is designed to support the developer community and spark innovation on the Android platform by awarding cash prizes ranging from $25,000 to $275,000 to developers whose applications are picked by a panel of judges.]]></description></item><item><title>Social Applications Update: OpenSocial and Plaxo - What a Week!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/456371.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/456371.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/456371_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[I think it was a wise and bold choice by Google to run so fast and loose, rather than doing a more traditional big consortium with frozen specs and tons of details that would never have hit the mark in time. But it made the race to get things working in Plaxo all the more chaotic and exciting. The good news is when you're dealing with known open standards like JavaScript and HTTP, you can pretty much always figure out what's going on and devise some working solution, even if it involves some judicious use of proxies, mod_rewrite, and regular expressions (which, trust me, it did).]]></description></item><item><title>Plaxo Is First Site To Publicly Implement OpenSocial</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455864.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455864.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455864_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Less than 24 hours after the launch of OpenSocial, not only was it running live in Plaxo, but there were already several first-class gadgets from top developers like RockYou and Slide. 'This is just the beginning - there's so much more to do to truly open up the social web,' wrote Plaxo's Joseph Smarr, in his personal blog on web development, tech, and life.]]></description></item><item><title>Microsoft Silverlight Jives With Google&apos;s OpenSocial</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454864.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454864.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454864_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[So what kind of real social networking applications would Silverlight enable? Would it be network visualization or media playback or mash-ups? Google with its Orkut online community (a closed-source ASP.Net application) created an API for social applications so that developers can build applications that can then run inside other social networking applications. They then opened up the specification for that API to other social networking applications so that all other social networking sites can (if they want to) make their sites containers for third-party applications. So I started playing with it.]]></description></item><item><title>Google&apos;s OpenSocial: A Technical Overview and Critique</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454940.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454940.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454940_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[One of the Google folks working on OpenSocial sent me a message via Facebook asking what I thought about the technical details of the recent announcements. Since my day job is working on social networking platforms for Web properties at Microsoft and I'm deeply interested in RESTful protocols, this is something I definitely have some thoughts about. Below is what started off as a private message but ended up being long enough to be its own article.]]></description></item><item><title>Fifty Million Facebook Users Don&apos;t Care About Google&apos;s OpenSocial APIs</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454909.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454909.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454909_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[There are 50 million Facebook users who don't know what OpenSocial APIs are...and don't care. There are about 5,000 tech bloggers and developers who think it is a revolution that will 'Checkmate' Facebook and leave them with no moves. TechMeme has over 100 stories saying that OpenSocial is awesome and Facebook is dead. MySpace joins Google on OpenSocial initiative. OK, surely that settles it, Facebook is toast. Nope, not in my opinion.]]></description></item><item><title>Google and 34 Others Launch Android Platform, Form the Open Handset Alliance</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455523.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455523.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455523_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[A broad alliance of leading technology and wireless companies today joined forces to announce the development of Android, calling it 'the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices.' Google, T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and others have collaborated on the development of Android through the Open Handset Alliance, a multinational alliance of technology and mobile industry leaders.]]></description></item><item><title>Google Goes On Disrupting: Last Week OpenSocial, This Week Open Phones</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455123.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455123.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/455123_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[In a move likely to be hailed as the final blow for the walled gardens favored till now by the wireless operators, Google is leveraging Linux and Java to open up the wireless handset market in the same way that it just launched OpenSocial to break open social networking and get beyond the walled garden approach of, for example, Facebook.]]></description></item><item><title>Why Google gPhone Matters to Me</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/453902.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/453902.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/453902_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Do I care just because I am a Google fanboy? Not exactly, although that does amp up my excitement. With an open platform for development for mobiles, plus Google's conquest of Jaiku for its mobile/presence capabilities - I am a big fan of Jyri Engestrom, the founder of Jaiku, a smart and innovative person devoted to the Net's common good - this could be the disruption that turns mobile phones from annoying bricks of bad reception into a platform for apps that can assume constant presence and that know where we are and who our friends are. It could make FaceBook look like CompuServ.]]></description></item><item><title>The OpenSocial Era of Cross-Network Social Applications Begins</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454748.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454748.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 05:30:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454748_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[We already brought word last week of Marc Andreeseen's detailed overview of OpenSocial, but what of other leading participants in the introduction of common APIs to the world of social networking? Here is a round-up of what is being written, thought, and said about OpenSocial by those most closely involved either as innovators or users.]]></description></item><item><title>OpenSocial: &quot;It&apos;s Good for Developers&quot; Says Google&apos;s Joe Kraus</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454715.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454715.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:45:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454715_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Google saw a problem with the way social networks were going, according to Joe Kraus, Director of Product Management, and OpenSocial was its way of overcoming it. Till now, to get an application to run on all the diferent social networks a developer had to customize their application for each one. 'When your 'development team' is just one or two people,' notes Kraus, 'the proliferation of APIs forces you to make tough choices, because you can't do that much one-off work.']]></description></item><item><title>How to Create a Gadget for Google Desktop</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/416486.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/416486.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:15:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/416486_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Have you played with Google's Desktop tool? This is basically a strip on the side of your screen that lets you house small applications, called Gadgets. The tool is available for Windows, Linux and Mac so no matter your vice there is a flavour for you. There is a wide variety of Gadgets available, ranging from the usual news tickers and clocks right through to games and even being able to vote if a girl is hot or not!]]></description></item><item><title>Contrary Opinion: MySpace and Google, Where&apos;s the Beef?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454564.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454564.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454564_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[Imho, Google has a long way to go to build the base of users and developers connected using the new protocol that is the subject of all this chest-thumping. Do they exist in any tangible form? How much of a moving target are they? It's like proclaiming the new owners of A-Rod's contract as the winners of the 2008 World Series. Only in tech, a persistently immature industry, could such an idea be aired seriously (assuming Mike is actually serious). I hope that the Facebook people, many of whom have never been in the middle of a tech PR war, don't overreact. Me, I've been around this block so many times and it's boring. Let's see some software then I'll let you know if this means anything. But Google is keeping people like me far away, which suggests that there may actually be no 'there' there.]]></description></item><item><title>Google&apos;s OpenSocial Initiative Gains Massive Momentum</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454244.htm</guid><link>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454244.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:00:00 EST</pubDate><comments>http://openwebdeveloper.sys-con.com/read/454244_f.htm</comments><description><![CDATA[OpenSocial, the industry-backed application programming interface (API) developed by Google to promote interoperability and shared data across all online social networks, is gaining momentum at a rapid pace. The sites that have already committed to supporting OpenSocial - Bebo, Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, mixi, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING - represent an audience of about 200 million users globally.]]></description></item></channel></rss>