Adobe has finally eliminated the thorn in Flash. It is working with search industry leaders to make Flash content indexable. Flash content was not accessible to search engines, rather it was quite laborious to make it accessible, until now. [Continue]

Social networks think that the members’ data is what differentiates them from other social networks. The data using which they draw social graphs or find contexts for advertising is gold and there is no way that can be shared. While there was a small project called DataPortability.org aimed at making data portable and networks interoperable, social network members used unusual ways of extracting their own data. [Continue]

Google has started with Knol, which they define as a unit of knowledge. Is it the same as Wikipedia? No. [Continue]

Google, which is all about unique algorithms, page ranks and huge data centres, has started experimenting with using humans, that is you and me to vote for search results. At least that is what it seems as. This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. [Continue]

Google and Yahoo! want to build a social network out of your email contacts. Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. [Continue]

MySpace, Bebo and SixApart have joined the OpenSocial group, which I think is a big boost. I still do not feel it right to call it alliance, the agenda is still not completely in place. But I think it is good news, better for developers, and I think in the long run it will be better for the users as well. [Continue]