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• Turn your site into a social network: Google Friend Connect

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now.
  So, from now on any of us can have his own social [...]

• Yahoo join the mobile market with oneConnect

  Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

  If I’d had enough money I’d invest it right now in the mobile industry. It is a real explosion, many of the biggest Internet companies are interested now in this market.
  Yahoo announced on Tuesday the launch of a new services called oneConnect that will aggregate mobile [...]

• MySQL bought by Sun Microsystems

  Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

  A new try for Sun Microsystems to come back between the leaders of the IT industry, by buying the most popular open source database, for $1 billion.
  MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations. The basic program runs as [...]

• Yahoo! web-based media player for your mp3 files

  Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

  Yahoo! just launched these days a beta version for a very interesting browser-based player. With just a line of Javascript code embedded in your web page it is possible to play any mp3 file from any web site. The documentation is a a public wiki.
  You can set the image Yahoo! uses [...]

• Wikia Search, the new search engine powered by MediaWiki

  Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

  Next week will be officially launched Wikia Search, powered by the free software MediaWiki and managed by Wikia Inc., with about 50 million to 100 million Web pages indexed.
  Wikia Search will have open-source search algorithms and application program interfaces, and will include the Grub search project, acquired by Wikia in July 2007.
  Jimmy Wale, [...]

• My predictions for the new year 2008

  Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

  Due to the global warming with increased effects for this year, the developed states will change their national strategies by taking into account these aspects, and we will see important geopolitical changes.
  United States will try to overcome the economical crisis by extending its influence in new areas, but it will encounter a [...]

• Movable Type Open Source, standard GPL license

  Thursday, December 13th, 2007

  SixApart finalize their GPL version of the Movable Type as an open source, Movable Type Open Source 4.0, with the help of their community.  This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose.

  Movable Type Open Source has every feature of Movable Type 4.0, [...]