Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Mobile: 07/14/10

2010년 7월 14일 수요일

Facebook's OpenGraph is Coming to the Mobile Web

Facebook's new head of mobile products, Eric Tseng, spoke today at MobileBeat 2010, introducing a new approach to the company's OpenGraph.

"Where we're going from here is a platform strategy. We're going away from a one-off app strategy,"

In other words, OpenGraph's going mobile, in more ways than one.

Goin' Mobile

First, Facebook considers and will approach further development of OpenGraph as a platform with infinite reach. Second, you'll soon see OpenGraph elements, like the Like button, growing out through unconnected mobile apps, as they already have through the non-mobile space. Facebook, after all, counts its mobile users at 150 million.

The "'Like' button for the entire Web" has now become the Like button for the post-Web world. Whether that is a good thing is highly debatable. That it is in fact a reality is not.

Android 2.2 Froyo on HTC HD2 !!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f891vm6vWHM&feature=player_embedded

Where are the Good Mobile Coupons?

Headed out to do some shopping and looking for a few good deals? Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones and their accompanying mobile applications, the ability to access geo-targeted coupons from nearby merchants on your handheld device is easier than ever.

Or is it?

In theory, you should be able to go into any store, launch an app and find a coupon for that business which could then be presented to the cashier. We have the technology - it is possible. In practice, however, this sort of mobilized "discount shopping" experience is still quite a ways off.

In Apple's ecosystem alone, dozens of applications are returned when you search iTunes for "mobile coupons." But after some experimentation with a handful of the top names (and a couple of newcomers), the experience was less than desirable.

Cloud-Based Music Services Must Do More Than Sync or Store

Despite claims from sectors of the record industry that file-sharing kills creativity or that the Internet is dead, the digital music industry clearly has strong momentum right now, aided in no small part by cloud technologies that promise ubiquitous access to music. Both Apple and Google are poised to make an entry into cloud-based music services, joining the numerous other vendors already vying to provide us with music acquisition, sharing, and storage services.

A new report from Forrester Research examines the ways in which the cloud will help enable what it describes as a "360 degree music experience" - not merely opening up the availability of our music across all of our various devices, but expanding the ways in which we experience our "record" collection.