http://www.infoworld.com InfoWorld - Information Technology News, Computer Networking & Security http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/logo;pos=rssfeed_infologo;sz=214x54;ord=? http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/logo;pos=rssfeed_infologo;sz=214x54;ord=? http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Top-10-social-networking-annoyances_1.html The same question people used to ask about PCs can be asked of social networks: Were our lives easier or harder, better or worse, simpler or more complex, before they came around? The answer is yes. For some folks, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace seem nearly as indispensable as e-mail, but creating and maintaining these virtual circles of friends turns out to be quite a bit of work, often unnecessarily so. Here are the 10 things that bug me most about today's social networking services. Thu, 15 May 2008 15:17:03 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Top-10-social-networking-annoyances_1.html 2008-05-15T15:17:03Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Apple-WWDC-event-sold-out_1.html Apple has confirmed it has sold out of tickets for WWDC 2008. The news is confirmed on the company's WWDC page on its developer's Web site. Thu, 15 May 2008 15:15:05 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Apple-WWDC-event-sold-out_1.html 2008-05-15T15:15:05Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/moonlight-release-puts-Silverlight-on-Linux_1.html The first public release of Moonlight, which provides a Linux client implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application (RIA) technology, was made available this week. Thu, 15 May 2008 14:30:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/moonlight-release-puts-Silverlight-on-Linux_1.html 2008-05-15T14:30:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Did-Twitter-beat-media-with-earthquake-news_1.html Over the last few days the Web has been abuzz with discussion about how users on Twitter, the online social messaging system, beat the mainstream media with news of the devastating earthquake in China. Most of the discussion has centered around how users were fast in getting information out against mainstream media Web sites, but does the claim really hold-up? Thu, 15 May 2008 12:18:26 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/15/Did-Twitter-beat-media-with-earthquake-news_1.html 2008-05-15T12:18:26Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/Adobe-refreshes-Flash-Player_1.html Facing serious challenges to its dominance in the RIA (rich Internet application) space, Adobe Systems will refresh its bread-and-butter Flash Player technology Thursday with capabilities that could provide an edge on the RIA battleground. Thu, 15 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/Adobe-refreshes-Flash-Player_1.html 2008-05-15T04:01:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/20TC-google-app-engine-tease_1.html One of the joys of being a Web programmer is heading to a dinner party, a haircut, or a reunion and fielding the pitches for everyone's dream for a brilliant Web application. Everyone is always happy to cut you in for 5, 10, maybe even 15 percent of the equity if you just build out the Web site that's sort of like a combination of Twitter, AltaVista, Eliza, TurboTax, and the corner pharmacy, but cooler. Wed, 14 May 2008 17:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/20TC-google-app-engine-tease_1.html 2008-05-14T17:00:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/20FE-web-development-tools-tease-2_1.html Since its inception, the Web has been synonymous with the browser. Pundits hailed NCSA Mosaic as "the killer app of the Internet" in 1993, and today's browsers share an unbroken lineage from that humble beginning. Wed, 14 May 2008 15:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/20FE-web-development-tools-tease-2_1.html 2008-05-14T15:00:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/20TC-jive-clearspace_1.html If the many business-oriented blog and wiki solutions are starting to look like one big blur, you're not alone. Most "Web 2.0 collaboration" vendors give you a departmental wiki that works about the same as the rest, but doesn't handle large enterprise deployments or connect with information in other parts of your organization. About a year ago, Jive Software successfully brought a lot of attention to the enterprise social networking category with Clearspace and Clearspace X, collaboration and community platforms, respectively, that provided unusual scalability and usability ? plus they integrated blogs and wikis across the business. Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/14/20TC-jive-clearspace_1.html 2008-05-14T10:00:00Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/12/Sun-to-clarify-JavaFX-open-source-plan-later-this-year_1.html While Sun executives have said that JavaFX, the company's nascent RIA (rich Internet application) development product family and eventual competitor to Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, will be entirely open source, a FAQ page on Sun's site appears to contradict that. Mon, 12 May 2008 23:01:33 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/12/Sun-to-clarify-JavaFX-open-source-plan-later-this-year_1.html 2008-05-12T23:01:33Z http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/redirect?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/12/Microsoft-readies-service-packs-for-dev-tools_1.html Microsoft released Monday beta versions of separate service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5, a Microsoft official said in a blog. Mon, 12 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/12/Microsoft-readies-service-packs-for-dev-tools_1.html 2008-05-12T23:00:00Z