by admin at Saturday, February 02, 2008 in Google
Tags:  Google Social Graph API, Social Networking Websites

Google’s appear to be an endless list. On Friday Google made an announcement for launching of its new innovation with much advanced technological inputs, the new “Application Programming Interface (API)”. This API will be dedicated specifically to the web-developers and will help them immensely for making use of their ‘social networking relationship data’.

The “Google Social Graph API”, the name given to this innovation, will provide the web developers across the world with a new and improved way to leverage social relationships in their applications and on their Web sites. The web developers can now make it far easier for their users to bring their existing social connections into a completely new web site and this will facilitate the users to” spend less time rebuilding their social networks and more time giving your app the love it deserves“, said Brad Fitzpatrik, the Google engineer in his blog post.

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by admin at Sunday, December 23, 2007 in Google, Internet, Orkut
Tags:  Google, JavaScript, Malicious Worm, Orkut, Social Networking Websites

Google reports that it has repaired a security issue in its Orkut social networking site that allowed a worm to propagate among at least 400,000 Orkut users.

“Google takes the security of our users very seriously. We worked quickly to implement a fix for the issue recently reported in Orkut. We also took steps to help prevent similar problems in the future. Service to Orkut was not disrupted during this time”, said one of the Google’s official spokesperson in an email response.

Orkut, Google’s first initiative at social networking, was launched in January 2004 and named after its creator and Google employee, Orkut Buyukkokten. The site is reported to have more than 67 million registered users across the globe. Rout however lags behind the most popular social networking websites MySpace that boasts 110 million users.

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