Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/), Google Inc. will announce a preview release of Google Friend Connect, a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors. Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s Campfire One), any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — Learn more about Google Friend Connect, OpenSocial, and other social initiatives at Google I/O, a two-day developer gathering about building the next generation of web applications. It takes place May 28-29 at Moscone West, San Francisco. Register now for Google I/O at http://code.google.com/events/io/.
See also http://code.google.com/campfire/
Archives for May 12, 2008
More Rumsy Maps via Google Earth
A natural fit, David Rumsey and Google have partnered to make even more of the awesome historical map collection available via a Google Earth layer… from LAt/Long blog… there are now 120 maps in the Rumsey Historical Map layer in Gallery layer in Google Earth – see more via the Rumsey Garage http://rumsey.geogarage.com/
Bulding a mobile Social Networking Application – better check with NIM!
Are you thinking of building GPS-enabled social networking apps for the Nokia N95 or Blackberry? Better take note… Yes Indeed, another big patent has been issued in the US… this time for Social Networking Applications Using GPS-Enabled Wireless Devices… The company with the largest mobile phone navigation subscriber base in North America, today announced that it was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,333,820, titled “Position Determination System,” which protects its intellectual property involving social networking applications such as requesting and/or pushing a user’s location via a GPS-enabled mobile device through a wireless network. See more here