To Counter Google, Facebook Opens Its Code

In a bid to counter Google, Facebook is going open-source.
A year after its launched its much-heralded Facebook Platform – a way for third party developers to write programs that work inside the social network – the Palo Alto, Calif., company says it is making a “significant part” of its platform code open-source.
That means developers and [...]

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Gmail Gets 13 Experimental New Features

Google started rolling out Gmail Labs, an experimental area of new Gmail features that will be familiar and very welcome to users of the Better Gmail Firefox extension. Once your Gmail account is Labs-enabled, you’ll get a Labs tab in the Settings area of your account where you can enable 13 new experimental Gmail features, [...]

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