Social Networking Open Sourced
Posted on 26. Feb, 2008 by Salman in news, open source news, social networking news
Number of social networking websites are spreading very fast these days. Every alternate day I get an email in my mail box where some friend of mine invites me to join a weird named social networking website. And the funny part is that every time these fellows expect me to upload all my images in [...]
Netscape Passes The Torch To Mozilla
Posted on 13. Feb, 2008 by Salman in news, open source news
The king of web browsers back in 1990′s, Netscape Navigator, finally passed the torch to Mozilla Firefox on February 1st, 2008. In a posting to Netscape’s blog, Tom Drapeau writes: While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been [...]
Yahoo & Google Will Save OpenID?
Posted on 12. Feb, 2008 by Salman in google news, news, open source news, yahoo news
A year back Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will be supporting the OpenID concept and that was enough to launch OpenID in the ever expanding web 2.0. At that time OpenID was accepted by some 500 services including LiveJournal, social networking site Vox and photo-sharing site Zooomr. But that wasn’t enough for the OpenID concept [...]
Microsoft To Support "Open"ID
Posted on 13. Feb, 2007 by Salman in microsoft news, news, open source news
Microsoft is NOT always against Open Source. Bill Gates announcement that Microsoft was going to support a distributed identity system known as OpenID is the proof to that. Gates, who is pushing for an information world where certificates — not passwords — control access to services and programs, said OpenID and Microsoft’s approaches were “complementary”. [...]