The whole premise of efforts like OpenSocial is that social business activities should not be isolated from the work going on in other applications. While everyone is off looking at Google+, the last ...

When Google announced that its new social-networking initiative would extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land grab for the social Web's attention just got a whole lot more intense. The ...

With Google's OpenSocial plans out of the bag, I checked out how some of the chosen few--Slide, NewsGator, Ning and salesforce.com--think about the new APIs and how they plan to apply them. Slide is ...

As expected, the much-discussed Google social play turns out to be an alliance with other companies to open up social networks and their data to developers. TechCrunch and the New York Times both have ...

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This guest post was written by Jay Simons. Simons is Vice President Sales & Marketing for Atlassian, the developers of JIRA, and issue tracker for IT project management, and Confluence, an advanced ...

Atlassian continues to enhance and improve its enterprise wiki Confluence. The latest major release was in June when version 3 hit the street with new plug-in Exchange and Macro browser (read all the ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

For those of you who thought OpenSocial was going to make things easy for developers who want to create social networking apps once and deploy them everywhere, think again. More splintering is ...

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On November 1, 2007, Google launched OpenSocial, a set of APIs that leverage JavaScript and HTML for creating applications that access friends and update feeds from any compliant social network.

[Editor’s note: This is an Op-Ed piece by Lee Lorenzen, an investor in Facebook applications.] Last week, Google hosted a meet-up for Facebook application developers. The goal of the event was to ...