Yahoo! Announcing the OpenSocial Foundation

Yahoo! announced  that the company  intends to support Google's OpenSocial initiative. Yahoo seems to be all about openness lately (Open Search, support for OpenID), so the announcement shouldn't surprise anyone.

OpenSocial is a Google coalition, which plans to build up a common set of standards for web developers to make social networking widgets and other programs for Web sites, includes MySpace, Plaxo, Bebo, Hi5, Orkut, LinkedIn, Six Apart, Oracle, salesforce.com and Ning, to name but ten.

From Yahoo's blog:

Yahoo! has always been about helping users find and share information online, and we love giving our broad and loyal developer community the tools they need to keep innovating on this front. Their echo our passion for creating the best Web experience for our users.
In this same spirit, we announced today that we’ve joined forces with Google and MySpace to create the OpenSocial Foundation, and will also begin supporting the OpenSocial standard. Industry consortiums such as this often start slowly and evolve over time. So far, OpenSocial is rapidly growing and adapting, but still in the early stages. We feel that this is the right step at this stage in its evolution. It’s no longer a trial balloon — it’s for real. We are taking this opportunity to help ensure websites and developers feel confident using OpenSocial as the building blocks for their new social apps.

 

The creators of many of the most popular applications on Facebook have already said they plan to also adapt their programs to conform with the OpenSocial standard.

I'm Using Twitter

I was a little slow getting onto Twitter. I don't know if it has much to offer me, but I want to try...

My main interests in Twitter are:

• Networking
• Promoting content
• Find new readers to my blog - gain a New Audience

My big question is how do I get people to follow me on Twitter...I admit it. I hesitated to sign up for Twitter. For now I think its a waste of time, but I'm patient. I promise to publish a post after few month of using this service to share with you what I discovered from using Twitter. I hope that it'll be proved to be a wise choice.

BDW, my Twitter page is: http://twitter.com/maordp

Dual boot: Vista and Win Server 2003

Wow! It was a long long long installation weekend. My Laptop's hard disk died a week ago, and I got new one which means installations!

I need both Vista and Server 2003 with Dual boot configuration on my laptop. Vista is my work and development machine, server 2003 hosted Team Foundation Server - my presentations machine.

It seems that this is not so easy to configure dual boot with Vista...after 2 formats and re-installation I finally succeeded!

Why does it so complicated? earlier versions of the Windows are incompatible with the new Windows Vista startup method. Windows Vista uses a new Boot Configuration Database (BCD) store. This store contains a boot menu and all the information about operating systems that are installed on the computer. Therefore, a Boot.ini file that is from an earlier version of the Windows operating system cannot be used to start Windows Vista.

How did I solve it? I found this useful KB and a great tool: EasyBCD.

Next time I'll be smarter...

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