OpenSocial, Google’s open challenge to Facebook will launch this Thursday. OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, that will allow access to user data, graph for friends information, and Feeds to learn the latest activities. XING, Friendster, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Newsgator, hi5 and Ning would be be joining Google and Orkut. Developers from some [...]

Apple (AAPL) announced that it had sold or delivered more than 2 million copies of OS X 10.5 in its first weekend, as compared to OS X Tiger which took nearly six weeks for the same. There is a lot of speculation that the launch of Leopard would be the most successful of all Apple [...]

Frustrated by the efforts (or lack thereof) of YouTube to curb the blatant violations of copyrights held by media giants NBC and Fox, these companies decided to do it all by themselves.
Invitations started going out yesterday and there is still room for signing up as a beta user direct from hulu.com. Users will have access [...]

HSO issued a bug fix earlier today: The zip file and demo links were changed at 950PM EST on October 26th 2007 after some minor tweaks. If you downloaded prior to the noted time, try this fix – Rename the theme from zen 8 to zen in style.css, then change the folder name of the [...]

YouTube introduced “Claim your Content” a few months ago. Here is one more step towards curbing online video piracy. A new software, i.e. the YouTube Video Identification Software put into use at the website is in the Beta version, and will be used by the copyrights holders themselves.
So how soon will Viacom get rid of [...]