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Google joins the Social Network boom by introducing it’s latest work, Google Friend Connect. The basic idea behind the new service is to socialize any website looking to be socialized. Google Friend Connect provides a platform for website owners to interact with their users through current social networks like Facebook, GTalk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo and the many other social networks available today. OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, Yahoo, Myspace, Google, Facebook data access APIs and many others. There are so many social standards today and Google’s target to to simplify access to them through Google Friend Connect. ...

Linux to me is like religion. Even though I am not religious but I feel that Linux in some way is like religion. It’s free, goes by many different names, it’s changes over time to suit needs but ultimately it’s personal. There will never be one “ultimate distribution”. It will always be a personal choice for the end user. I love openSUSE, my hardcore Linux friends love Debian and BSD. Many others love Fedora but then a few prefer Ubuntu. It’s individual. ...

Nuffnang recently launched it’s smart poll feature which enabled polls to be shown together with your campaign ads. Since it’s launch I’ve only seen one poll across all blogs and sites running Nuffnang ads. It’s a cool idea to run polls but till the poll questions increase I’d rather have the polls feature turned off since it’s taking up too much real estate. If you’re in the same boat with then the screen shots below might help. A simple walk through to turn off the polls feature. ...

Here are some screen shots to support my previous post about [Fedora 9 “Sulphur”][2]. GNUMAN.org [The Coding Studio][3] ...

Good news to all [Fedora][2] fans. Fedora 9 codenamed “[Sulphur][3]” is out. The new release comes with quite a few new features. To start off. Fedora 9 runs on the latest 2.6.25 kernel. There’s a new package management system included called “Packgeit” which uses Yum for it’s backend. Gnome Desktop 2.22 and KDE 4.03 are the desktop managers to choose from. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is the browser of choice this time and to top it all the new opensource version of Java “OpenJDK” is part of the new features. [See the full summary here.][4] ...