Category: Tech

Zynga: Google Me’s Answer To Facebook?

Recently, Google invested an unspecified amount of money between $100 million and $200 million into social gaming company, Zynga.  Google plans on integrating a new gaming platform (currently dubbed ‘Google Games’) into their empire and Zynga is obviously going to play a significant role in its initial startup.  At the same time, rumors continue to [...]

The Importance of Being Earnest…err, Open Source

There’s been a lot of talk around open source platforms this week.  First, our new president has asked Sun Chairman Scott McNealy to author a white paper on the benefits the U.S. government can derive from open source.  The BBC has a rundown of the research along with quotes from McNealy here. I’m interested in [...]