Facebook acquired Walletin, a new startup, while it was still in stealth mode. Walletin was created by Cory Ondrejka, the former CTO of Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life and Bruce Rogers who was at one time, a coder for Atari before he moved to Cryptic Studios to become their CTO. In other words, these are [...]
Facebook has decided to contribute to the ‘Green’ campaign by creating a Green page. This is an effort by Facebook to encourage the development of energy efficient computing systems and is a joint collaboration with the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) The purpose of this page is to share innovative technology solutions with the aim [...]
After nearly 3 years of work, Blekko launches its alternative search engine in beta. This new start-up provides an alternative way to search the web while eliminating spam from the search results. Rich Skrenta, co-founder and CEO of Blekko, stated that the main aim of blekko is not to act as a google-killer but to [...]
Earlier this week it was discovered that some Facebook applications were inadvertently sharing User ID information (UID) to third parties. In response to this, engineers working for Facebook are proposing that these UIDs become encrypted. The new proposal will make it so only the actual application will be able to read UIDs, making accidental [...]
As Twitter’s ad-based business model seems to improve on itself almost daily, the company is revealing plans for a new target that’s may be music to your ears: small businesses. Twitter’s CEO has indicated that they have intentions to offer a self-serve tool for local businesses to buy Twitter ads. Twitter is currently working [...]
