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Earlier this month, Facebook announced “Facebook Connect”, which would allow you to sync Facebook accounts with other websites, such as Digg. With these developments came hinting that social networking was in for a change. Facebook has plans to veer away from being a normal standalone site.
Facebook hopes to bring it’s application platform into open-source. Many other social networking websites are using “OpenSocial”, a platform that any social networking site can use. Facebook has been one of the only networking websites that have disregarded open source.
But the question remains, especially given the scant detail of the latest rumor, about whether “open source” means truly open source or some variety of “extensible.” Facebook has been redefining a whole lot of what we think about the Web, so this may be no exception.

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After yesterdays announcements Microsoft finally demonstrated Windows 7 in public yesterday.
Microsoft has been investing in many forms of natural input to enable users to interact with the PC and their devices using touch. Last year at the All Things Digital conference Bill Gates introduced Microsoft’s surface computer. This year Julie Larson-Green (VP, Windows Experience Program Management), who was responsible for the innovative Office 2007 design, demonstrated the multi-touch innovations first previewed in Surface that will ultimately play a part of the next version of Windows.
Could this now be the start of Microsoft slowly revealing more information over the coming months until their grand double of PDC/WinHEC in November?

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