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Facebook Hits Google Through Top Employees

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

 

We are currently noticing a competition between Google and Facebook and it is not only on the level of social networking. We are seeing a company that will grow from around 300 employees to 700 next year in Facebook and they are currently looking for new engineers at Google.Facebook recently hired YouTube’s CFO, Gideon [...]

Box.net to Launch OpenBox

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Box.net recently announced that they will soon launch OpenBox, with the official full release date scheduled on or before December, 5. This means that the online storage provider will have an open source platform available for any web developer that wants to create some sort of “Service action” on Box.net, which will make it possible [...]

Mirco Launched

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

We have a new open source video player on the market in Miro. The non profit company that is currently backing it has announced it as a competitor for Joost and actually a better one. There are a lot of advantages for choosing Miro. First we have the fact that it is open source and [...]

Will Demonoid.Com Get Back Online?

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

We are currently witnessing a full blown attack designed to take down the biggest (or maybe all) major torrent hubs available for users. Demonoid.com is the latest victim as it was forced to close to Canadian users in September. This was because of huge pressure from the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association). It only took [...]

OpenSocial not a Real Threat for Facebook

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

The whole bogosphere is taking about Google’s OpenSocial API. Many are saying that it is a very good move by the company and that its benefits are numerous, mainly concerning the creation of a web platform that is going to be attractive to everybody, even more than the social network could be if not utilizing [...]

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