Users of Yammer, a social networking service for enterprises, can now embed Yammer feeds and activity streams into just about any business application through the use of embed codes, the company announced today.

The feature functions similar to the way YouTube users embed videos on other websites. It’s a few lines of code that fit snugly into an HTML or JavaScript code. The site then calls out to Yammer to pick up any information about a specific feed and publishes it into a widget built into the website. The feed works both ways, too — any information entered into the widget is sent back to the main Yammer website.

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As we reported when Firefox 4 was recently released by Mozilla, its download numbers when first released were way beyond those of Internet Explorer 9 from Microsoft. At the same time, Firefox and Google Chrome have been steadily eating into Internet Explorer's market share around the world, giving rise to the seemingly clear conclusion that open source browsers are leading the innovation curve. But Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 is now available as a preview, and Microsoft researchers are claiming that its performance at "real" JavaScript tasks within web applications is actually faster than Firefox's and Chrome's. Could version 10 be a coup for Microsoft?

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Want to keep up with President Obama's daily activities? The White House on Tuesday released an updated app for iOS as well as one for the Android platform.

With the updated iPhone app, users can get alerts when President Obama is about to speak and watch it live within the app. When you sign in, a pop-up alert will ask if the app can send you push notifications. These alerts might include sounds and icon badges, according to the notice.

Read more about the Whitehouse's app here from PCMag

Software giant adopts latest version of open-standard Web format.

Silverlight is being eclipsed.

The media format Microsoft Corp. launched five years ago to enliven websites with video and music and allow content to flow easily to a computer or phone is being overshadowed by a generic solution. Fast-moving competitors have adopted an update of the familiar HTML format for the task, and Microsoft is joining them.

Microsoft last week described the shift as a "change in emphasis," not direction. Improvements in the open-standard HTML5 combined with customers' appetite for multiple devices made a generic media presentation format more attractive. Silverlight will become a tool to drive the hardware inside a device rather than manage how content is presented, said three vice presidents overseeing platform development, in a blog post.

The shift was complete this week when Dean Hachamovitch, head of the Internet Explorer team and an architect of the newly released Internet Explorer 9, kicked off a Web developers' conference in Las Vegas with an address that mentioned HTML5 more than three dozen times and ignored Silverlight.

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