Web Innovations Review

Facebook

Facebook is a social network website founded by Harvard graduate Mark Zuckerberg on February 4, 2004. Its ease of use and multiple features make it a hit in UK as well as some other users across the globe. Standard features include photo-posting, message-posting, editing profiles, uploading the latest news concerning the profile, etc.

Facebook is unfortunately limited when it comes to editing profiles. While Myspace allows HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in editing, Facebook only allows plain text. This has been hacked into by a number of users by exploiting a cross-site scripting. Sadly, this has caused to create a worm which destroys and spreads across the net, acting like an innocent MySpace profile.

Facebook

Speech to Be the Catalyst for Mobile Web Innovation

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Citing statistics of mobile Web adoption rates, Vlad Sejnoha, chief scientist at Nuance Communications, presented a case, or challenge, for the rapid, cutting-edge development of speech-enabled applications for mobile services.

Focusing specifically on local search and Web applications, Sejnoha laid out a roadmap of what needs to happen for Nuance’s mobile vision to be achieved. And though he spoke under the theme, “Speech is the Catalyst,” his presentation also equally weighted the ever-changing needs of end-users. “As we plan the next generation, we are increasingly aware that we are catering to users whose expectations are changing, “he said.

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