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Google beefing up new 'Social Web team'

Is Google plotting to encroach upon Facebook's comfy territory? Read more »

New Google Web Toolkit reveals web-app speed

Just as Microsoft advanced the state of the art for programming on Windows, Google is trying to do the same with web-based software. Its latest move: the release of Google Web Toolkit 2.0. Read more »

Google sets Bigtable for free life in the cloud

Web developers will soon be able to host their applications on Google's infrastructure for free — up to a point. Read more »

First OpenSocial app hacked in 45 minutes

The first app launched under Google's OpenSocial API program has been taken down, shortly after it was discovered a hacker could use it to change user profiles. Read more »

MySpace, Bebo join Google OpenSocial

Social networking sites MySpace and Bebo have announced they will be part of Google's OpenSocial developer initiative. Read more »

Google's OpenSocial opens new online battle

Google have taken the online social networking battle to a new level with the announcement of a new set of APIs that can be used to create applications on any site that wishes to participate. Read more »

Google launches open APIs for social networks

Borrowing a playbook from Sun's Java, Google is announcing a way for programmers to build social applications for multiple Web sites at once. Read more »

Facebook valued at $10bn as Microsoft opens wallet

Microsoft is in talks to acquire five percent of social-networking site Facebook, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read more »

Google Desktop 3 poses 'privacy risk'

A new feature in Google Desktop 3 that allows people to search for documents across multiple computers poses privacy risks and should not be used, a consumer digital rights organisation and a security company have warned. Read more »

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Why Chrome will win and why it will lose

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of Chrome. We spoke to industry experts and Google's new rivals to find out why Chrome matters and whether the browser reality can deliver on the hype. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

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Programmers in India prefer Google's Orkut

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google's Orkut social network isn't just big in Brazil. It's also popular in India, especially among software developers, according to a new survey. Read more »

Lets Shindig!

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Google Developer Day in Sydney, Dan Peterson and John Hjelmstad talked about Apache Shindig, an open source implementation of OpenSocial and gadgets. Read more »

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  • Staff Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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  • Chris Duckett IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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