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Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Service Unveiled: Windows Azure
Recently at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft unveiled their latest plans to revolutionise the internet and computing. Where Web2.0 brought interactivity to the internet, Windows Asure, will bring all the functions of a personal computer to the internet. The idea is that applications and data can be stored on internet servers, allowing [...]
Technology Industry Welcomes Girl Power
For a long time the internet and technology industries have been dominated by men. In an attempt to encourage more women in to the technology industry, a group of female IT experts have formed an organisation, to help unite and promote women in IT. The group refer to its meetings as Girl Geek Dinners. According [...]
Holiday Romances Killed Off By Facebook!
Recent studies carried out by Travelsupermarket.com have revealed an unexpected side effect of the Web2.0 internet phenomenon - holiday flings are becoming less common, and the internet is to blame. In the days before social networking and Googling, people felt that they were safe to have some passionate fun while on holiday, in the knowledge [...]
Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, creators of Facebook, start a new project
Facebook is possibly the most successfull social website ever created. And the two people behind it have decided it is time to move on. Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein have announced that they are planning a new venture, similar to Facebook, but this time aimed at the professional market. It will possibly be more like [...]
Scrabulous is no longer on Facebook
Several months ago we reported how two individuals had built a Scrabble application for Facebook, and then were under pressure from the board game manufacturers to remove it. It appeared that they won their case, and that Scrabulous would stay. But unannounced a couple of days ago, Scrabulous vanished from Facebook. There are a lot [...]
Scrabble Fans on Facebook Fight for Their Right to Play!
Facebook, the world’s fastest growing web community, is under pressure from Mattel and Hasbro to close the Scrabulous game down. Scrabulous is a game “application” on Facebook, which allows friends to play scrabble with each other online, within the Facebook social pages. Facebook encourages its users to write interesting applications. Scrabulous currently has 603,014 daily [...]
Facebook goes public
The Facebook Community are divided over the recent announcement by Facebook that user profiles will soon be indexed on search engines. Like Orkut, to search for individuals in Facebook you need to have an account; but soon you will be able search Google et al for people that you know, and if they have a [...]