Microsoft Expands Open Initiatives and Interoperability

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 by Dawa Riley

  In a press release last week, Microsoft announced that it would increase the openness of its products by adhering to four new interoperability principles including ensuring open connections, promoting data portability, enhancing support for industry standards and fostering more open engagement with open source communities. For a company which has often ...

2008 Forecast: Data Portability Means Sharing is Caring

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 by Dawa Riley

Yesterday, Google and Facebook announced that they would be joining the Data Portability Workgroup. The workgroup was founded with the goal of creating a reference design document that contains the best practices for integrating existing open standards and protocols for maximum interoperability. Issues of data portability, openness and ownership of data ...

2007 Digital Retrospective: Social platforms, mobile mania and open APIs

Friday, January 4th, 2008 by Dawa Riley

In order make big predictions regarding what innovations might occur within our industry moving forward, it is useful to look back at the past. The following acknowledges some of the 2007's biggest achievements. The Facebook Platform In May this year, Facebook released its "Platform" or software environment which allowed third party ...

Are Facebook and Google Big Brother?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 by Dawa Riley

I read an interesting post at Google's official blog concerning "free expression and controversial content on the web" which got me thinking about the role and responsibility of companies in terms of data exposure vs. respecting the individual's right to privacy. Are companies who collect, disseminate and filter our digital ...

Breathtaking UI: Universe by Artist Jonathan Harris for Daylife

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 by John-Alistair George

Few projects succeed at bridging art and science online like Universe, created by digital artist Jonathan Harris. This is just a fantastic interactive piece that's as functional as it is beautiful. Jonathan Harris is an artist working primarily on the Internet. His work involves the exploration and understanding of humans, on ...