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  BBC NEWS | Business | Facebook challenges German rival 

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  The German company that is the subject of an intellectual property lawsuit from social networking firm Facebook has said the case is without merit. Facebook's complaint, filed in a California federal court, ... accuses Studivz of copying the look, feel, features and services of Facebook. It is also seeking compensation, to be determined at a trial. Studivz said it had not been served with any court papers and that the Facebook claims were without merit. German-speaking Studivz is a social networking platform for students based in Berlin, Germany. The name is an abbreviation of the German expression Studentenverzeichnis or Studienverzeichnis, which means students' directory. In April 2008 it reportedly had about 10 million members, mostly in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In its complaint Facebook states: "As with any counterfeit product, Studivz's uncontrolled quality standards for service, features and privacy negatively impact the genuine article." But Studivz argues Facebook is suing   [More...] [Less...]

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  BBC NEWS | Technology | Yahoo kicks off re-wiring project 

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  Yahoo users will soon have one place where they can manage all the services they use on the popular website. The company has begun a mammoth re-engineering project that will unify the disparate services ... Yahoo runs. It hopes the project will transform the site into a vast social network where Yahoo users can quickly find and communicate with each other. The project should also aims to make it easier for web developers to use Yahoo data and services for their own ends. Monkey magic "We are literally in the process of rewiring Yahoo from the inside out," said Ari Balogh, chief technology officer at Yahoo in a speech at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. By re-engineering its internal workings it hopes to tear down the walls between its web sites and services so each user only has to visit one place to view and manage everything they do at Yahoo. Yahoo has built up its online presence using both home-grown services and by acquisitions. Recently it has bought photo-sharing site Flickr   [More...] [Less...]

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  BBC NEWS | Technology | Web 2.0 debates internet's future 

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  San Francisco's Web 2.0 Expo conference brought together thousands of people responsible for crafting the future direction of the internet, and the world of applications - or apps - was front and centre. ... Everyone from Microsoft to Yahoo to MySpace was on a mission to woo developers to create exciting applications for their devices. Jennifer Pahlka of Techweb, one of the conference's co-chairs, said the carrot these big Silicon Valley companies were dangling to entice developers to get involved was that of openness and allowing people to devise programmes without constraints. "Yahoo was talking about opening up advertising platforms, Mozilla was talking about opening up the mobile web and John Zittrain from Oxford University was talking about openness to drive innovation and creativity so we don't go into this closed system where every application has to be approved by someone else," said Ms Pahlka. "So I think open versus closed and who gets to define what is open and what isn't is a b   [More...] [Less...]

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