Tag: SOCIAL GRAPHS

Facebook just acquired something called Octazen Solutions, a company that most people (myself included) had never heard of until yesterday. Even Techcrunch's Mike Arrington had to ask "What did Facebook just buy?" Arrington and others talked to their industry sources, and the word around the web is that Octazen is an incredibly successful data-scraping operation, grabbing users' social graphs from ...

Computerworld is reporting (and ReadWriteWeb is confirming) that Microsoft will be joining the Data Portability Working Group. Microsoft adds to the growing list of companies that have signed on with DataPortability.org. Since the beginning of the year, Google, Facebook, Plaxo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Flickr (Yahoo!) and SixApart have joined the project. The project, which in its own words, aims to ...