David Needle
7 articles
Web Services
Twitter Co-Founder: ‘We Haven’t Built a Great Platform Yet’
Build, buy or encourage? That might be the simplest way to describe one of the key challenges Twitter faces as it works to figure...
Web Services
Oracle Proposes Cloud Management API Based on Open Standards
Oracle has released details of a proposed standard API for managing the cloud. The draft specification, released Wednesday, has been submitted to the Distributed...
Web Services
Developer Bonanza? $250M sFund Aims to Grow Facebook, Social Web Apps
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- What if there was a $250 million party and everyone you knew was invited? Well, not quite everyone, but venture...
Mobile
YouTube Developer Blog Gives Flash the Nod Over HTML5
Google's YouTube division voiced strong support for Flash this week in a blog post aimed at Web developers, arguing that the emerging HTML5 standard...
Open Source
Yahoo Tightens Up Hadoop for Security, Workflow Management
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Yahoo unveiled a new beta version of Hadoop, the open source, distributed filesystem that the Web giant created and has...
Web Services
Facebook Opens the Social Graph to Web Developers
SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook continues to open and extend its platform along with its already considerable reach across the Web, today unveiling its new...
Open Source
Google Code Celebrates 5th Anniversary of Open Source Project Hosting
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- If there was any question that you were in the right place for the Google Code anniversary event here on...