http://news.myspace.com/technology The latest news brought to you by MySpace! Sat, 17 May 2008 06:06:44 GMT http://newscdn.myspace.com/web.2.14/content/springwidget/technology.xml http://news.myspace.com/technology/internettech/item/17478716 Mike Arrington was arguing that Facebook was in the wrong for blocking Google Friend Connect (and therefor I was wrong). Give me your email address that I should be able to put that email address into whatever system I so please, just like when you hand me Scobleizer Fri, 16 May 2008 23:14:15 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/internettech/item/17478716 http://news.myspace.com/technology/internettech/item/17480212 Yahoo wants to keep the documents redacted, but Joel Friedlander, the attorney representing the shareholders, accused Yahoo of trying "to whitewash embarrassing documents" so they couldn't be used to undermine its effort to fend off activist investor Carl Cnet News.com Sat, 17 May 2008 00:25:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/internettech/item/17480212 http://news.myspace.com/technology/gadgets/item/17483766 The Men Who Stare At Goats is a must-read 2005 book by UK journalist Jon Ronson about the US government's interest in very strange stuff, like Jedi powers, psychic spying, subliminal sound weapons, and the potential to kill something (like a goat, or an enemy Boing Boing Sat, 17 May 2008 05:15:55 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/gadgets/item/17483766 http://news.myspace.com/technology/generaltechnology/item/17483800 YANGON (Reuters) - With state TV only showing footage of generals handing out food at model tented villages, people in Myanmar are snapping up bootleg video discs of bloated corpses, desperate refugees and villages ravaged by Cyclone Nargis. "Myanmar Reuters: Technology Sat, 17 May 2008 05:12:59 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/generaltechnology/item/17483800 http://news.myspace.com/technology/generaltechnology/item/17483400 Publisher Conde Nast who owns Wired Magazine just bought Ars Technica. Arstechnica will become part of Wired Digital. TechCrunch's sources say Conde Nast paid $25 million for the 1998 founded technology news site. Conde Nast bought Wired Magazine in 2006 also for $25m. Soon after that Wired Digital I4U News Sat, 17 May 2008 04:17:24 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/generaltechnology/item/17483400 http://news.myspace.com/technology/generaltechnology/item/17483320 But the refuge was front-page news then and more than once since, most recently for the April 24 suspected arson fire that swept within a few car-lengths of the cottage owned by Mayor Richard M. Daley, then surged through dry dune grass toward the properties Chicago Tribune: Technology Sat, 17 May 2008 04:22:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/generaltechnology/item/17483320 http://news.myspace.com/technology/generaltechnology/item/17483040 A recent survey by ExecuNet, a networking organization for business leaders, found that 83 percent of executives and corporate recruiters research job candidates online, and 43 percent have eliminated a candidate based on search results. First, search for yourself on Google to pinpoint any negative washingtonpost.com: Technology Sat, 17 May 2008 03:44:19 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/generaltechnology/item/17483040 http://news.myspace.com/technology/blogging/item/17482837 Here’s a question that might provoke some interesting discussion over the weekend: Which Social Bookmarking Site Would You Prefer to Hit the Front Page Of? Would you prefer to hit the popular page on Digg, hit StumbleUpon’s buzz page, make it big on problogger Sat, 17 May 2008 04:01:13 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/blogging/item/17482837 http://news.myspace.com/technology/google/item/17482814 Google Street View has been controversial since it was first launched. People have been caught in front of strip clubs, being arrested, breaking into buildings, or doing anything else that they happen to be doing when they're shot on camera. Google is going to blur people's faces, using special About.com: Google Fri, 16 May 2008 23:49:21 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/google/item/17482814 http://news.myspace.com/technology/gadgets/item/17482688 Well, this could soon be a thing of the past with diamonds being replaced by all things gadgety. According to a recent survey, every three out of four women will choose a pricy and glitzy TV over a diamond solitaire necklace, a high-end mobile phone over Shiny Shiny Fri, 16 May 2008 16:39:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/gadgets/item/17482688 http://news.myspace.com/technology/mobiletech/item/17482365 Roger Reich, an architect of the Storage Networking Industry Association's effort to create storage management standards and now CEO of Olocity, gives a layer-based description of SRM. Layer 1 functions as configuration management, including hardware and topology discovery and configuration mapping TechWeb: Mobile & Wireless Sat, 17 May 2008 03:04:15 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/mobiletech/item/17482365 http://news.myspace.com/technology/mobiletech/item/17482356 Our survey shows that business technology pros aren't convinced that Microsoft is doing enough to shed its old proprietary habits. Microsoft wants--indeed, needs--to be considered a more open company, one that embraces industry standards, adapts best practices of the open source community, and TechWeb: Mobile & Wireless Sat, 17 May 2008 03:04:15 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/mobiletech/item/17482356 http://news.myspace.com/technology/mobiletech/item/17482361 Flextronics, the $28 billion-a-year contract manufacturer, said last week that upstart SaaS provider Workday will supply it with human capital management software for 200,000 employees worldwide. If it seems as if Flextronics CIO David Smoley is going out on a limb by licensing SaaS rather than TechWeb: Mobile & Wireless Sat, 17 May 2008 03:04:15 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/mobiletech/item/17482361 http://news.myspace.com/technology/gadgets/item/17482081 iKey's done this whole rugged keyboard thing a time or two before, so when it builds one meant to operate like a champ around environments laden with grease, you know it means business. The new line of Membrane keyboards -- which arrives in a trio of flavors Engadget Sat, 17 May 2008 02:44:15 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/gadgets/item/17482081 http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/05/robot_spirograph.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 Cool long-exposure photography using a two-wheeled Picaxe-powered robot as the light-source. Subscribe today, save 42% and get web access to MAKE free. MAKE Digital Edition is available only to subscribers. Thanks to everyone involved with Maker Faire Bay Area: attendees, makers, exhibitors, Make Sat, 17 May 2008 03:02:04 GMT http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/05/robot_spirograph.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 http://news.myspace.com/technology/internettech/item/17481759 To deal with this issue, Blabnote, a British startup that is currently in private beta, has created what may be the world’s first “vocal social network.” To login to the network, you simply call Blabnote from your phone, which uses caller ID TechCrunch Sat, 17 May 2008 03:03:04 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/internettech/item/17481759 http://news.myspace.com/technology/internettech/item/17480780 The company Monster Cable has a rather infamous reputation for way too aggressively trying to enforce its trademark on the word "monster." the makers of Monster Energy drink, the Chicago Bears for having the nickname "Monsters of the Midway," and the Boston techdirt Sat, 17 May 2008 01:14:12 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/internettech/item/17480780 http://news.myspace.com/technology/mobiletech/item/17479567 Today I was catching up and listening to Alec Saunders' Squawk Box podcast when a bombshell was let loose-something that makes the news that Verizon Wireless chose LiMo over Google's Android make total selse: LiMo is arguably not open source. The The Mobile Weblog Sat, 17 May 2008 00:04:02 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/mobiletech/item/17479567 http://news.myspace.com/technology/yahoo/item/17478627 Publisher Network has three methods of payment available to our publishers: check, direct deposit or PayPal. Once the method of payment is verified, you can expect to see payments no later than the last day of each month. If you selected the PayPal payment option, remember that the name on the Yahoo! Publisher Network Blog Fri, 16 May 2008 23:21:45 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/yahoo/item/17478627 http://news.myspace.com/technology/blogging/item/17476720 Named after Hungarian Goulash, called gulyás or gulyásleves, American Goulash is not like Hungarian Goulash at all. Betty Crocker, a completely fictitious persona invented by someone in the early part of the 20th century and now owned by General Mills, put Untwisted Vortex Fri, 16 May 2008 22:00:12 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/blogging/item/17476720 http://news.myspace.com/technology/google/item/17476770 If you use Gmail and you'd like a simplified interface, that doesn't use AJAX, loads fast and works well in most browsers, try the basic HTML view. Until recently, Gmail didn't have the option to set the basic HTML version as the default interface and you had Google Operating System Fri, 16 May 2008 22:10:00 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/google/item/17476770 http://news.myspace.com/technology/yahoo/item/17476319 The SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party was last night and we all had a blast. We enjoyed demoing the SearchMonkey Developer Tool, answering questions and getting to know an enthusiastic group of developers. To get started building SearchMonkey apps, check Yahoo! Search Blog Fri, 16 May 2008 21:33:08 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/yahoo/item/17476319 http://news.myspace.com/technology/blogging/item/17475877 To celebrate, and learn about best practices in nonprofit collaborations, the Lodestar Foundation has launched a $250,000 Collaboration Prize: "The Collaboration Prize recognizes collaborations among two or more nonprofit organizations that each would blogher Fri, 16 May 2008 21:46:28 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/blogging/item/17475877 http://news.myspace.com/technology/blogging/item/17475321 There are two challenges when it comes to answering an inquiry honestly: how to respond and how to respond to the response. There are many ways to respond honestly to a question that requires the truth but is unpleasant to hand over. Among the six questions Lorelle on WordPress Fri, 16 May 2008 21:02:39 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/blogging/item/17475321 http://news.myspace.com/technology/google/item/17474176 However, because of these policies, Facebook is not comfortable with letting Friend Connect to use the Facebook platform. In short, Facebook feels that using Friend Connect would give away too much information about users, despite it being an opt-in service, and that they require more controls in Google Inside Fri, 16 May 2008 20:16:52 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/google/item/17474176 http://news.myspace.com/technology/facebook/item/17472509 Back in November I asked if Facebook is evil. For argument’s sake Facebook returned back to being good as it applies to Facebook Beacon. Umair Haque states Facebook is “hell-bent not on changing the world, but on dominating it: on playing the cheesy, lame, thoroughly obsolete games of allfacebook Fri, 16 May 2008 19:29:43 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/facebook/item/17472509 http://news.myspace.com/technology/podcasting/item/17471731 We’re in the home stretch of this season of Canadian Podcast Buffet and final preparations for Podcasters Across Borders. PODMTL 7, Montreal May 29th at 7:30pm Sergent Recruteur (4801 St-Laurent blvd, Montreal) Theme: unspecified Facebook group Share Canadian Podcast Buffet Fri, 16 May 2008 18:22:31 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/podcasting/item/17471731 http://news.myspace.com/technology/facebook/item/17471219 When Data Portability was first announced, it sounded like it would solve what had become one of the biggest problems in the social networking space: a seemingly endless array of new services, each of which required you to setup and maintain your own profile, Mashable: Facebook Fri, 16 May 2008 18:44:22 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/facebook/item/17471219 http://news.myspace.com/technology/podcasting/item/17469688 blubrry’s Todd Cochrane announced today that his company was removing more than a hundred podcasts from its service and banning sites because of problems with “podspam”: This morning I instructed our CIO to have all shows that were using a Podcasting News Fri, 16 May 2008 18:52:08 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/podcasting/item/17469688 http://news.myspace.com/technology/yahoo/item/17466796 Tagline advertisements, inserted at the end of email messages, were comprised of short messages for a variety of products. Mobile ad (which replicated on each reply in a thread) encouraging folks to “be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all” Yahoo! Mail Updates Fri, 16 May 2008 16:43:04 GMT http://news.myspace.com/technology/yahoo/item/17466796