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    After early fame, DataPortability Project matures 31/03/2009 07:30:00

    Its role includes holding social-networking vendors' feet to the fire regarding data portability
    The DataPortability Project tasted early fame in January 2008 when an indignant Robert Scoble joined the group after Facebook canceled the tech celebrity's account for exporting his friends list to Plaxo.
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    'Valley Girl' loves to live in a Web 2.0 world 26/09/2008 09:59:00

    Author and self-described valley girl Sarah Lacy talks about the rebirth of Silicon Valley
    With the recent rise of Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace, it's hard to believe that just a few years ago, the tech industry, along with many investors, were taken for a loop when the dot-com bubble burst and many companies went under.
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    Facebook Tech Infrastructure Needs Constant Care 02/09/2008 13:35:00

    Jonathan Heiliger, the top technology exec at the huge social networking site, talks about his efforts to build a technology operations team at Facebook that can both handle millions of users worldwide and a restless, creative culture inside the company.
    Started in a dorm room four years ago, the social networking site Facebook now claims to be the fourth most-trafficked site in the world. Ninety million active users pound on 10,000 servers every day, uploading millions and millions of pieces of information in a given month. For example, "friends," who socialize in 21 languages, add 500 million photos per month.
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    Facebook seeks trusted relationships on the 'Net 04/07/2008 09:57:22

    Facebook's director of engineering dissects product design, development and search efforts at Facebook
    While perhaps best known as a major social networking site in the Web 2.0 vein, Facebook is becoming a popular place to interface with potential customers, similar to what companies such as Scribe and iLike have done. Facebook also is being viewed as a place for enterprise collaboration, with Serena Software leveraging the site for this purpose. To get perspective on Facebook, InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill recently spoke with Aditya Agarwal, Facebook director of engineering. Agarwal formerly worked in the Oracle server technologies division.
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    Facebook pushes ahead with profile redesign 26/05/2008 08:29:59

    Facebook is set to roll out a dramatic redesign of its member profile interface in June
    Facebook will roll out a dramatic redesign of its member profile interface next month and much attention is being paid to the details and to how end users and developers will react.
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    Google: OpenSocial party nearing start 25/02/2008 08:23:59

    Google Engineering Director David Glazer talks about OpenSocial
    Almost four months after Google emerged from the background in social networking with its OpenSocial initiative, there is no shortage of skepticism around the project.
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    Oxer on hardware hacking and the meaning of (Second) Life 14/02/2008 08:52:19

    What happens when you knock down the boundaries between the real and virtual world?
    Jonathan Oxer is technical director of a Web application development company called Internet Vision Technologies and for the past couple of years has been president of the Linux Australia community group. At January's Linux.conf.au in Melbourne he presented a tutorial entitled Hardware / Software Hacking: Joining Second Life to the Real World. Computerworld recently spoke to Oxer about how he is knocking down the boundaries between the real and virtual world. Oxer also sheds light on his how his lifetime obsession with electronics has transformed his home-life into a software controlled environment.
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    Technorati CEO sees opportunity in the changing Web 11/02/2008 09:10:03

    In an interview, Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra talks about executive upheaval, expansion plans, and the future of the company
    When Richard Jalichandra became Technorati's CEO in October, the company, a blogging and Web 2.0 pioneer, had generated enough drama in recent years to rival a soap opera.
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    Facebook privacy chief: Data portability dangers overlooked 11/02/2008 07:41:48

    Facebook's chief privacy officer acknowledges that there's more work to be done regarding the site's privacy concerns
    The launch of Facebook's Beacon advertising system in November put the social networking site in the middle of a controversy over privacy, as Beacon was criticized for being too aggressive and stealthy in collecting and broadcasting information about users' activities online. For that reason, few people right now would probably envy the job of Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer and the person most responsible for explaining the site's policies to the public.
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    GeoNames founder opens up the GIS world 21/11/2007 05:13:00

    Marc Wick discusses the GeoNames project: how it started, what it uses to keep running, where it is being used and where the project is heading. He also discusses free and open software, how an increasingly GPS-enabled world is driving the need for free data, the politics in data access and more.
    GeoNames is a free and open source geographical database. Primarily for developers wanting to integrate the project into web services and applications, it integrates world-wide geographical data including names of places in various languages, elevation, population, and all latitude / longitude coordinates. Users are able to manually edit, correct and add new names with a user-friendly wiki interface. The data is accessible through a number of webservices and a daily database export.
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    Digital Rights Management comes to email in mission impossible style. 06/11/2007 09:19:16

    PC World Australia talks to the man behind the flaming vision.
    Email sender remorse is a thing of the past, if Bigstring.com CEO and founder Darin Myman has his way. The start up has developed a service that allows emails to be edited, recalled, or made to self-destruct. Emails, videos and pictures can also be rendered non printable, non-save-able or and / or non-forward-able.
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