I’ve just read that at the recent Facebook Developer Garage (Thanks TechCrunch!), Facebook briefly disclosed information on the new Open Graph API.

Ironically, there was not much ‘open-ness’ yet about its full functionality, perhaps a certain coyness was intended to invoke suspense. But the outlining idea was sufficient to create anticipation; its potential is well worth noting.

The Open Graph API will enable any website to wire-in and replicate features of a Facebook Page using the various APIs. Essentially, it’s like Facebook Connect, but way more. Without a dedicated Facebook Page, users can still be Fans of the page via the site and “it will show up on that user’s profile and in search results, and that page will be able to publish stories to the stream of its fans”.

To take on a clairvoyant’s view of things (since details are unspecific at this time), envision your future website with a page that incorporates a style similar to the Facebook Wall. It will tap into your Facebook account from your site to update your status and publish comments. The highlight of it would then be customizing it, selecting features that better suit your site.

This now allows Facebook to inch even closer to monopolizing their hold on the the social Web but let’s bring it a little closer to home. How will it involve you?

Enterprises need to recognize and embrace the value of social interaction on the web with open, loving arms. Thinking of social media tools like Facebook or Twitter as ‘child’s play’, frivolous time-wasters, will only impede the progress of your business.

Entrenching Facebook as the social utility of choice presents a goldmine of opportunities. Companies with corporate websites should seek to be more socially enabled, and ensure that they have an IT development team, whether in-house or outsourced, to customize and add on components utilizing Facebook Open Graph API. Your IT developers should continuously monitor the evolution of the social Web, provisioning your business in way so that it can tap into the social graph of their members, multiplying their reach. Other enterprises like startup companies, can also quickly grow their user base tremendously, in a more effective and efficient manner.

Regardless of the services or products you have to offer, take the chance now to seriously evaluate the power of the Social Web. Keep an eye out for Facebook’s Open Graph API when its full functionality is unveiled and released in the months to come.

Do you need to develop a Kick-Ass WordPress site?

WordPress is one of the best php based open-source content management systems out there. We’ve been using it for more than 5 years and we’ve not thought of switching. Now that’s a LONG time in the world of Open Source.

To get started with customizing your WordPress, we’re an experienced WordPress Consulting team. We’ve done many solid implementations of WordPress and literally know it inside out.

From theme modification to creating customized plugins, we’ve done it before. So we can advice you on what’s the best way you can deploy and WordPress installation.

Since we’ve started deploying Scrumming for our development team, let me explain how Scrumming can work for you customized WordPress Theme project.

Just like developing any application it is actually extremely risky to try to spec everything out before building a single line of code. Most likely you’ll never get what you want anyway as requirements change along the way or you simply feel that you don’t like what you see.

Hence if you scrum with us on your customized Wordpres theme, we can assure that you’ll be more satisfied. This is because we will work in iterative stages. We will decompose a project into manageable tasks that are realistic. Our goal is always to focus on providing working iterations at the end of every scrum sprint.

By approaching development this way we believe it will allow us to provide better business aligned solutions to our clients. Do speak to us about your customized WordPress Theme project. We’d be happy to speak to you about how we can assist you.

How simple can you make your user interface?

How about not having one at all? Or rather skipping away with the need to interact through traditional forms of user interfaces like a web interface.

Posterous is a new startup that allows you to blog simply by sending in an email to post@posterous.com

This makes it very simple for most people. For many users, it’s difficult to adapt to new user interfaces. Email is the most familiar interface to most people out there. After all email is also where there is a lot of readily bloggable content such as the funny emails that everyone sends around.

Do check out Posterous. We do feel the interfaces like these, that don’t really have any interface, could be the new zen for 2009.

[TechCrunch has more on Posterous]

With several different Google partners around the world, Google Apps is being used by many large organizations. At the time of posting, more than 30 universities and high schools have implemented Google Apps, such as George Washington University, Kent State University, Open Malaysia University, Northwestern University etc.  Some of these universities have more than 50,000 students, and they decided to use Google Apps simply because it provides a good way of communication, which is easy to use and highly scalable.

Large corporations such as L’Oreal, Nexans, Protector & Gamble, GE Corporation and many more have also decided to use Google Apps to support their business activity, and this is in addition to the thousands of small to medium organizations using it. Even the Swedish Police are using it! The government sectors are slowly opening up to this service.

With this tremendous rate of growth, more and more companies are starting to use Google Apps. So what are you waiting for? Contact us to set up Google Apps for your organization today!

A partnership between two big companies in the IT industry happens again!!! Google Application Engine (see “Rolling out Google Apps for Your Company’s IT Infrastructure“) has partnered with SalesForce, to come up with a new kind of system, dubbed a Cloud Relationship Management system. With this integration, Google Engine apps are allowed to read and write to Force.com vice versa.

With this strategic partnership, customers would only have to register on one site to use the features of the partner’s site. Welcome to Cloud Relationship Management.

As the dominators of the search engine market, this aggressive move by Google has created more awareness that they are ready to challenge Microsoft for a greater customer base through online applications.  With this move from Google, there will be more news in the days ahead along the lines of Cloud Relationship Management for sure! The new CRM is here.

We’ve begun embarking on the development of OpenSocial and Facebook Applications for some of our clients.

These platforms represent a gigantic market penetration as literally ALL the top social networks in the world support both these platforms.

In the past year, these platforms have made significant enhancements and we feel that they’re close to becoming very consistent and stable.

Speak with us if you’d like to find out more about how your next applications can tap into the power of these platforms.