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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20003480-264.html

by Stephen Shankland
Google loves to build platforms on which programs run–Android, App Engine, iGoogle, and in the biggest picture, the Web itself. But platforms are of no use, and aren’t much fun, without applications on top, so Google often also kick-starts development with applications of its own.
Now it appears Google is interested in boosting development [...]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7618474/Facebooks-bid-to-socialise-the-web.html

By Emma Barnett, Technology and Digital Media Correspondent
Facebook announced a whole host of new features at its annual F8 conference in San Francisco.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, introduced the new tools, which are part of the company’s Open Graph strategy at yesterday’s annual F8 developer conference in San Francisco.

The plugins are an attempt to extend [...]