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Hi5 to support Facebook games

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:27:30 -0500

Hi5, a social network that changed its focus to gaming relatively recently, announced Tuesday that it’s built some code so that Facebook application developers can transport their creations to Hi5’s platform with minimal effort. It’s specifically targeting game developers, so that some of the smash-hit games built on Facebook can now wind up on Hi5.

This may sound familiar: Bebo, the social network eventually acquired by AOL, announced a similar plan to accept Facebook apps late in 2007, but it’s unclear as to the extent it was actually executed.

“As a leading game distribution platform, it’s our job to make the process of getting games live on Hi5 as easy and seamless as possible for our partners,” Hi5 president Alex St. John said in a company release. “Now, developers who have designed and developed a social game for Facebook can easily get their game up and running on Hi5 with minimal development effort.”

When building apps for a social-networking platform became all the rage after Facebook’s developer platform debuted almost three years ago, there arose an industry-wide concern that there would be too many platforms, too many apps, and a profoundly messy environment as a result. Google launched an initiative called OpenSocial, which aimed to make these apps cross-platform, and pretty much every social-networking site signed on to the initiative—except Facebook. And ultimately, Facebook’s platform was the far-and-away winner.

Hi5’s developer platform is still based on the OpenSocial framework. The site used to be a fairly standard social network, gaining primary traction among youth markets in Latin America, before its executives chose to change the focus of the site to align it with the fast-growing social-gaming craze. Currently, it’s working on broadening its global reach, and getting popular Facebook games on board is one step that the company’s taking.

via news.cnet.com

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Four in five believe Web access a fundamental right - Yahoo! News

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:05:33 -0500

Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.

A poll of 27,000 adults in 26 countries for the BBC World Service showed 78 percent of Internet users believed the Web gave them greater freedom, while nine in 10 said it was a good place to learn.

Respondents in the United States were above the average in believing the Internet was a source for greater freedom and they were also more confident than most in expressing their opinions online.

However, others felt concern about spending time online, with 65 percent of respondents in Japan saying they did not feel they could express their opinions safely online, a sentiment that was also felt in South Korea, France, Germany and China.

The issue of Internet freedoms hit the headlines earlier this year after the world’s largest search engine Google Inc threatened to quit China, the world’s biggest Internet market, over strict censorship rules.

Of the 27,000 surveyed, more than half agreed that the “Internet should never be regulated by any level of government anywhere.”

That belief was particularly strong in South Korea, Nigeria and Mexico while residents in Pakistan, Turkey and China were the least likely to agree, with only 12 percent, 13 percent and 16 percent respectively strongly agreeing.

via news.yahoo.com

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Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives - Data wiping -...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:50:51 -0500

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For the Afflicted, a Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory - NYTimes.com http://ping.fm/YPYwq

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:46:35 -0500

For the Afflicted, a Little Black Box to Jog Failing Memory - NYTimes.com http://ping.fm/YPYwq

New Photoshop for Android includes Apple potshot | Deep Tech - CNET News http://ping.fm/ccXXx

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:43:03 -0500

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Rice University Study Shows How Facebook Pages Can Help Local Businesses http://ping.fm/bhuq9

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:05:39 -0500

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Mobile application market could grow to over $15 billion by 2013? « Boy Genius Report...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:36:03 -0500

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TiVo unveils Series4 ‘Premiere’ DVRs with Flash based interfaces…...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:35:55 -0500

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There’s an App for That: How Mobile Is Changing Shopping - Advertising Age - Digital...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:43:19 -0500

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Inside the Excruciatingly Slow Death of Internet Explorer 6 - Death - Gizmodo http://ping.fm/1q65A

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:56:43 -0500

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Facebook main driver of social media content - Business news, business advice and information for...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:07:41 -0500

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Apple Explores Flash Alternative — in other words Apple FAIL… http://ping.fm/7dsUz

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:05:18 -0500

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is listening to Flogging Molly and is ajaxed out for today… will pick up some moo tools in...

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:08:57 -0500

is listening to Flogging Molly and is ajaxed out for today… will pick up some moo tools in the morning…

Preview of AIR on Android - Adobe AIR Team Blog http://ping.fm/dGgsW

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:27:19 -0500

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Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:49:14 -0500

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Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:34:52 -0500

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:23:23 -0500
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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:08:49 -0500
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Google to test ultrafast broadband to the home | Deep Tech - CNET News http://ping.fm/kwP2E
Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:21:12 -0500
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