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Facebook’s new look is all about the Wall, the blank space on a profile page that the social network’s users can fill in with stories, photos, links and the ever-popular Status Updates. In turn, Facebook executives hope a less-cluttered Web site will eventually fill in their bank accounts with more advertising revenue. The second-ranked social network is slowly introducing its users to its redesign, keeping in mind the public relations disaster that was Beacon, Facebook’s controversial attempt to link customer data to advertisers.

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Facebook Repaints Wall in New Design

In an effort to shine more light on the traditional “dark art” of software development, Borland Software on Monday announced Borland Management Solutions. The three-pronged product leverages Borland’s Open Application Lifecycle Management framework, and is designed to enable users to better orchestrate, measure, predict and improve software delivery. BMS, according to the Austin, Texas, company, plugs into a customer’s existing ALM tooling infrastructure and provides what Borland calls a “cockpit” to give visibility and control over the entire application lifecycle.

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Jumping Into the Software Application Lifecycle Cockpit

Put down the vendor white papers and turn down the volume on that webinar. If you want to secure your data and pass a PCI audit, take a look at the past — the long-ago past. Between the ninth and 15th centuries, the castle was the Western world’s emblem of strength and security. It enabled small villages and towns to repel larger forces and defend what was important to them. That’s the same thing e-commerce companies must do today. Every computer system has to be ready to defend itself.

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Cyber-Security Lessons From the 15th Century

As social media expands, developers are finding was to monetize it, making it useful for ecommerce. This is done with applications (abbreviated “apps”) and widgets. Jodi McDermott, Director of Product Management for Analytics for Clearspring, a widget developing service, defines the two terms in her blog at Widgetanalytics.wordpress.com. Even though the terms “applications” and “widgets” are often used interchangeably, a widget is a program that can stand alone on any web page as long as a user has an Internet connection and a browser, while an application must be run off another platform, in this case a social media site. A widget can be an app if it is registered as a social app on a social network.

Some social media sites (Facebook for example) allow developers to program their own apps. They can do this on their own or by using development platforms like Clearspring (Clearspring.com). These apps can be customized in many different ways, and there are countless ways to use it…

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Social Commerce For Social Media