Web Giants Form US Internet Lobby Group
judgecorp writes "Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon have apparently set up the Internet Association to lobby the US government on issues relating to online business. From the article: 'The Internet Association, which will open its doors in September, will act as a unified voice for major Internet companies, said President Michael Beckerman, a former adviser to the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee.'"
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Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar “Graph Search” That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google
Today at Facebook’s press event, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced its latest product, called Graph Search. Two of the members of the Graph Search team, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky were very high up at Google, which is extremely important to note. Facebook is calling it a “Dream Team.” Zuckerberg made it very clear that this is not web search, but completely different: What’s more interesting than any of these things (that Facebook currently does) is giving people power and tools to take any cut of the graph that they want. Zuckerberg explained the difference between web search and graph search. “Web search is designed to take any open ended query and give you links that might have answers. Graph search is designed to take a precise query and give you an answer, not give you links that might provide the answer” For example, you could ask Graph Search “Who are my friends that live in San Francisco?” Linking things together, based on things that you’re interested ...
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If It’s Not In Graph Search, Facebook Hands Your Query Off To Bing
Facebook this morning unveiled “Graph Search,” a new search tool for finding people, photos, places and interests in a way that the social networking giant was very careful to point out is very different from web search. But, nearing the end of the press conference held at Facebook headquarters this morning, Mark Zuckerberg was quick to point out “one more thing”: Facebook has deepened its partnership with Bing to show searches that can’t be answered by the Web Graph. That means that while Facebook users will not need to go outside of the bounds of the social network — say, to a site such as Google — to do web search after all. Updating.
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Chrome 25 Beta Now Supports The Web Speech API, Will Let Developers Build Voice Commands Into Their Web Apps
Google just launched the latest beta version of its Chrome browser (version 25) for the desktop and Android and this one is chock-full of new tools for developers. The most important update - and the one that Google chose to highlight - is the inclusion of the Web Speech API in Chrome. This, says Google, will allow developers to integrate speech recognition into their web apps so that "in the near future you’ll be able to talk apps into doing all sorts of things."
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Who Controls Vert.x: Red Hat, VMware, Neither?
snydeq writes "Simon Phipps sheds light on a fight for control over Vert.x, an open source project for scalable Web development that 'seems immunized to corporate control.' 'Vert.x is an asynchronous, event-driven open source framework running on the JVM. It supports the most popular Web programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby, and Python. It's getting lots of attention, though not necessarily for the right reasons. A developer by the name of Tim Fox, who worked at VMware until recently, led the Vert.x project — before VMware's lawyers forced him to hand over the Vert.x domain, blog, and Google Group. Ironically, the publicity around this action has helped introduce a great technology with an important future to the world. The dustup also illustrates how corporate politics works in the age of open source: As corporate giants grasp for control, community foresight ensures the open development of innovative technology carries on.'"
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