Produce music on your Linux system, conduct research on Scientific Linux, find the top 5 antivirus applications for mac, set up MySQL database replication with SSL encryption, unit test Google engine app, build CSS cacheer into your website, get many different free icons and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Why did Facebook converted their PHP systems? What are venture capital’s most trafficked web sites? How do you web 2.0 sites and social bookmarking to increase website traffic? Why won’t the iPad be used in enterprise environments? Many more questions, answers and information in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Enjoy.
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As a social media participant I come across (too many) people declaring themselves social media experts on a daily basis. There are thousands if not tens of thousands of them surfing through the social media sphere, without leaving a bigger footprint in the on-going interaction than anyone else. There is no endorsement or certification to set legitimate marketers in the social media field apart from anyone else with a pumped up Twitter account.

Social media is the hottest topic on the web these days, leaving behind instant messaging, personal websites (Geocitis, tripod, anyone remember those?) and even blogging. The expertise and proficiency of a “Social media expert” are not clearly defined yet, other than a coined title there are no clear boundaries to the role. In all honesty, there are very few people who really deserve the title “social media expert”, most others only believe they are so, while they are truly self-touting experts seeking to make a quick buck.

Make your online personal details disappear, check Gold Lock’s encryption, learn about the top 10 technology mergers, meet the top 10 web2.0 cartoonists, and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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Ready for some more friction? Share you medical status to get answers from other patients in the same situation, Get ready to stop using IE6 (if you still do), learn how to market events with Web2.0, optimize an AJAX or web 2.0 site,find the most interesting blog design trends of past months, discover the web’s evolution toward web3.0 and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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In spite of people trying to crown Twitter as the new king of the web, or the future inter-personal communication tool or the next big thing, you take your pick, there are several equations on the web that never changed. I’m not talking about companies and profitability or any of the business aspect of the web, but about what makes a web site or service, succeed on the world wide web.

The new motto for web2.0 and social web applications founders is bringing value. If the new service brings some sort of new value it’s a recipe for success… Is it?

There is one thing any beginner webmaster knows, Content Is King!!! No matter how you turn it. If there is no content, there is no value. As web developers get lost in APIs, sharing and application inter-connectivity, the basic objective gets lost. User experience does not cover for lack of substance. Recent media moguls new demands for paid subscription to view content is part of the same equation. No content = no value.

Though the new year opened with a whimper at TechMount, as promised before thing WILL get better soon. How? You’ll have to wait and see. For now we have a more friction. Find out about the new fixes and features in the Chrome browser, will the new tablet computers kill web 2.0? (I don’t think so), listen to Bill Gate talks about Twitter among other things, get web 2.0 widgets for your website and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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It seems like the Daily Friction tradition is weathering. But this is not going to be the case for long, new energy is going to produce new friction in the coming weeks. Check out Samsung’s e-paper prototype, get ready for the new Nexus One, play PlayStation games on the HTC HD2, Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP, and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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If you feel theres a flood of application stores for mobile devices, you are probably right. As if there weren’t enough app stores open or in the works, you can now add two more. This time, they’re coming from two big vendors, Amdocs and Comverse. These stores are designed to be mainly used and operated by mobile operators.

Amdocs Application Store provides an environment in which operator and providers together with their third-party development partners can develop, sell and profit from digital applications and value-added services. Amdocs executives say that as handset makers come out with smarter devices, end-users often associate more with the device makers than with the service providers, and carriers need to respond to that.

Naturally, many apps stores or services (Nokia’s Ovi) are tied to specific handsets. Amdocs says its store will be offered from a handset-agnostic approach.

Comverse also launched its Application Store for telecom carriers to introduce advanced services for subscribers. Comverse says the store gives carriers the ability to address their subscribers’ appetite for new and better ways to be informed, entertained and connected.

“With the Application Store, Comverse reviews each application, which reduces the risks and unexpected costs associated with implementing new services, while speeding time to market,” said Chief Marketing Officer John Bunyan of Comverse, the world’s leading supplier of software and systems enabling value-added messaging and content services, converged billing and active customer management, and IP communications.

“Innovative companies around the world are cooking up some terrific services, and there is no shortage of operators and users who can benefit greatly from them,” said Declan Lonergan, Vice President of Yankee Group’s Anywhere Consumer Research Group. “Unfortunately, the reality is that selecting and launching services from multiple providers takes a long time and is too expensive for both the operators and the application providers when done on a per-application basis.”

Check Point is now in the midst of developing a new tool allowing companies better control over what employees do with their computers at work. The tool in development is a software blade that customers can buy to address use of social Web sites and Web applications. It essentially understands how thousands of Web applications and Web 2.0 widgets are used.

With the blade, scheduled to be released sometime next year, companies could see not only that employees use social network sites, but also whether they are participating in specific activities like Facebook groups or playing games available through these sites. Or they could keep an eye on applications that do file transfers.

Check Point has licensed extensive libraries from FaceTime that identify 4,500 Web applications and more than 50,000 Web 2.0 widgets. During the first phase Check Point plans to incorporate the libraries in a blade which will act only as a monitoring tool, later it will incorporate them in it’s firewall solution to create an access-control blade that can enforce restrictions on the use of some specified applications. Under Check Point’s software blade architecture announced earlier this year, customers can buy individual security tools to create packages of custom security features