Ringside Networks brings Facebook to your website
Facebook remains an extremely popular destination site. But an increasing number of companies are trying to take elements of the popular social network and distribute them elsewhere on the web.
We’ve mentioned several, including most recently Deluux, which we called promising. Even Facebook is trying to extend itself elsewhere on the Web. Now there’s Ringside Networks, which allows Facebook applications to run (and stay synced) on any website.
The Marlton, NJ-based company launched in public testing mode… Continue Reading
Open Source Business Conference: Great, we won. So what did we win?
Open source has gone mainstream, but now what?
That’s what I asked leading open source investor Larry Augustin (pictured left; he founded VA Linux, SourceForge, and backed many more) and Harold Goldberg, chief executive of Zend, at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference, which just wrapped up.
All the evidence suggested open source has arrived: This year, some 40 percent of the conference came from the IT departments of large, traditional tech companies, Goldberg estimated — far… Continue Reading