It looks like Facebook is on with news and this time for its users who enjoy playing one of the most loved games that Facebook offers; Scrabulous. The next time users try to access the application they will get to see the following message:
Archive for July, 2008
Dayak’s foundations have been based upon a belief that corporate America is in need of a better recruiting solution to hunt down talent. With the most common method being the online job boards, the system fails to give total satisfaction to the employers.
Dayak is designed specifically to address this issue and ease the job for hiring managers. The news as reported by Anthony Ha says that Dayak has raised $1 million in its present funding.
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Yesterday at Microsoft’s Research Faculty Summit, the leaders from Microsoft Research emphasised on how Microsoft can collaborate on research with the academics in order to get more technological breakthrough in the coming years.
While speaking on the occasion, Tony Hey, the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s External Research Division, focused on the role of his faction in assisting specific collaborative research projects along with advancing the research process.
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If you’ve always been a fan of Kevin Rose or Veronica Belmont, you would have wondered how popular they are, or who is the more popular internet celebrity amongst them. Or, if you’re like us, you would have wanted to know, how popular you are. This is where Wired Celebrity Meter Beta comes in. Using this, you can measure up your popularity to the most popular celebrities on the internet.
It is very simple to use, you just have to input your MySpace, Twitter and Personal website/Blog URL, and click Get Score. It’ll use Google to check out who links to you, and how many links are there to your URLs on the Internet. And based on this information it’ll generate a score. It even works if you don’t have a MySpace URL, or any other of them.
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Facebook seems to be pumping enough for the media these days from introducing new apps, partnering with various services (like Digg) to having new people become a part of its team. The latest news in this regard is Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer as Director of Engineering as reported by Michael Arrington.
Mike will be leading up Facebook’s Platform though the present line of works hasn’t been confirmed as yet. He would report directly to Mark Zuckerberg by September.
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The week had been pretty silent with Yang and the gang taking a break away from the regular spice they always had for news readers but Friday’s shareholders meeting might just bring out something totally unexpected. For? Yahoo and more importantly Yang; the co-founder might have had a run away from Icahn (the untrustworthy) and Microsoft’s plans at ousting the fighter along with his board (that was rejected by Yahoo like its co-founder). But he has to come up with something more meaningful to stand out victorious and save himself.
The last victory at making Icahn go quite came when Yang got backing from one of its major investors, Legg Mason’s Bill Miller and voicing the opinion over at Yahoo’s web page. But he still has to win the biggest shareholder; The Capital Group holding 16% (as reported by Erick Schonfeld) via two funds; Capital World Investors (9.85%) and Capital Research Global Investors (6.53%) and the worry here is that Gordon Crawford (running Capital Research) still has complains as to how the board directs Yahoo. So here rises a dilemma for Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock that is how to pull Crawford’s favor in support for the present board.
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Apprise is a new Adobe Air based RSS Reader, that is on par with the best RSS readers applications out there. It has a very clean gray interface which gives a slight OS X look, but that’s just it with the resemblance. Twitter and AIM integration step in there, which just blow competing Adobe Air RSS Apps out of the water.
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MySpace has been head over heels to gain momentum at capturing the market. It had introduced a couple of changes now and then, the most important being the refurbishing of its layout last month and announcing support for OpenID. MySpace has recently got out with its new classified page that is powered by Oodle (as reported on the blog).
Oodle runs classifieds for various sites including, Wal-Mart, Cox Broadcasting and Military.com to name a few. According to Oodle CEO, Craig Donato, Oodle powers classifieds for more than 200 sites with over 500,000 listings each day. The current deal would enable MySpace Classifieds to get access to all those ads, along with those listed on MySpace itself.
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We had earlier reported of Yahoo shutting down its Music store by 30th September and with that would end all support that has been available for customers who bought music along with DRM licensing servers. This would have left everyone who got their music from Yahoo, without a license to play it. Yahoo has somehow got some senses kicked in its head and has announced to refund its customers for the full value of their purchases, as reported by Frederic Lardinios.
In return Yahoo would also make the purchased music available as MP3s without any DRM and all the users who had subscribed to Yahoo will have it transferred over to Real’s Rhapsody subscription service.
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Today, Microsoft is going to reveal its ‘Mojave Experiment’ in San Francisco. According to some, the so called experiment is nothing but another viral marketing campaign and it seems to be case.
The Mojave website claims that they would be giving a 10 minutes long demo of the “next Microsoft OS” which is tagged as ‘Mojave’. Next Microsoft OS might have made you think about Windows 7 but its not the case because the website further reads, “but it’s actually Windows Vista”.
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