March 2011
42 posts
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Twitter releases Web Intents →
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Web Intents provide popup-optimized flows for working with Tweets & Twitter Users: Tweet, Reply, Retweet, Favorite, and Follow. They make it possible for users to interact with Twitter content in the context of your site, without leaving the page or having to authorize a new app just for the interaction. Web intents are mobile friendly, and super easy to implement.
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“ 1” is going to become Google’s version of the “Like”...”
– 1: Google Figures Out a Way To Leverage Search. - John Battelle’s Searchblog
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:... →
Founders Of MP3.com, mSpot On Amazon’s Music... →
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Official Google Blog: An update on Buzz →
… we don’t always get everything right. The launch of Google Buzz fell short of our usual standards for transparency and user control—letting our users and Google down. While we worked quickly to make improvements, regulators—including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission—unsurprisingly wanted more detail about what went wrong and how we could prevent it from happening again.
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Cloud Storage Faceoff: Windows Live SkyDrive vs.... →
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Twitter Co-Founder @Ev: On to Startup #3 →
… the company has recently re-entered choppy waters in its efforts to monetize. Over recent months, the company has taken to a more stringent enforcement of its terms of service, causing developers to question how loyal it is to the ecosystem that helped it rise to its current status.
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Netflix API Now Serving 20 Billion Requests Per... →
… Netflix continues to see tremendous growth in its Netflix API. The API which saw humble beginnings in 2008 has taken a giant leap in usage, ever since Netflix started streaming functionality to devices. I
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yaM Wants to Make Meetings More Efficient: Online... →
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“… FuzeBox, the developer of an online meeting software, is launching its...”
– Fuze Meeting Brings Multi-Party HD Video Conferencing To The iPad 2 And Android Devices
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“… Let’s be clear: APIs and API keys mean that you are at the mercy of the...”
– The API is Dead. Long Live the Protocol. aka, “avoid being screwed by closed social networks” | buddycloud.com
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Encoding.com Opens Vid.ly – A Single URL For... →
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Watch“… The 15-minute speech is succinct and to the point. Every startup founder should watch it. It is about design and building excellent products.” (via Jack Dorsey & The Golden Gate Bridge (Exclusive Video))
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“… I wanna see that pitch deck. It must have had some magic unicorn dust...”
– scobleizer.com
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The Unofficial Guide to Migrating Off of Google... →
Good post about why this coder stopped using Google App Engine … Solid Examples … Good blog comments too.
… I have no insight into the future of Google App Engine. While Google is clearly rolling out new features in the product, it seems to continue to ignore the two critical issues of uptime and data store latency. New features like taskqueue constantly suffer from downtime...
The Sun Will Set For Yahoo’s AlltheWeb On April 4,... →
… By way of history, AlltheWeb was one of the early search engines on the scene but never managed to pick up lasting traction. According to its Wikipedia page, the search engine was indexing around 3.3 billion pages before it was acquired by Yahoo in 2004.
Kevin Rose Resigns from Digg [CONFIRMED] |... →
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Anatomy of a Crushing - Pinboard Blog →
… A number of people asked about the technical aspects of the great Delicious exodus of 2010, and I’ve finally had some time to write it up. Note that times on all the graphs are UTC.
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“… On the 25th anniversary of Microsoft’s IPO, Fortune is featuring...”
– Inside The Deal That Made Bill Gates $350,000,000 - FORTUNE Features - Fortune on CNNMoney.com
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Things about Blogging - by Tim Bray →
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“… is the term “real-time” getting used correctly?”
– Real-Time Web or Right-Time Web?
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Twitter Adds Permanent HTTPS Setting to Improve... →
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Google Geo Developers Blog: Maps APIs over SSL now... →
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Improving the security of Google APIs with SSL -... →
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Report Finds Performance of Web Apps Throttled on... →
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“… When you ask Yahoo who is in charge of Flickr, they always point to one...”
– Flickr Burning As Yahoo Fiddles | techcrunch.com | Readability
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Dropbox Mobile Apps Are Less Secure than the... →
… Instead of using the considerably more secure HTTPS to transmit file metadata (like the desktop app), Dropbox Mobile sends data unencrypted over an HTTP connection. According to Dropbox, this is due to performance considerations and may change in the future. For now, it’s something you may want to keep in mind.
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Making auth easier: OAuth 2.0 for Google APIs →
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Attacks Use IE to Exploit Windows MHTML Flaw →
… all supported versions of Windows are impacted, and all versions of Internet Explorer can be used as an attack vector. You could prevent exploitation of the MHTML flaw by switching to another browser like Firefox or Chrome. If you are going to continue using Internet Explorer, it is recommended that you run Microsoft’s FixIt tool to protect your PCs.
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“… Existing developers will feel let down by the announcement. Companies...”
– Twitter Tells Third-Party Developers to Scrap Their Apps
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Twitter to Devs: No New Third-Party Apps | News &... →
… Accordingly, Twitter has updated its terms of service. The announcement leaves no doubt that existing third-party clients like Twitterific or UberSocial must change their apps to reflect the updated policy or they’ll get API access yanked.
Related Link: Consistency and ecosystem opportunities Options
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iOS 4.3 Syncing Problems? Try Re-Syncing Your... →
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“… “Wallaby” is the codename for an experimental technology...”
– Wallaby | Adobe Flash FLA to HTML - Adobe Labs
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Twitter iPhone App's Quick Bar Met With Disdain,... →
… The Twitter iPhone app is currently receiving numerous negative votes on iTunes, currently garnering an average two-star rating for the latest version with 2173 users voting.
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Even Microsoft Wishes Internet Explorer 6 Would... →
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Mozilla Labs » First developer release of Web Apps... →
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What Apple hopes you didn't notice about iPad 2 -... →
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Twitter Was Act One →
Jack Dorsey interview about starting Twitter,his ejection as Twitter’s C.E.O & Square
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Amping Up Chrome’s Background Feature →
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“… Mahalo, the human-powered search engine and directory, has been hit hard...”
– Following Google’s Algorithm Change, Mahalo Lays Off 10% of Staff
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“Today Tinypay.me launches its API aimed at enabling developers to create their...”
– Building an E-Commerce App Made Easy With Tinypay.me’s New API
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“… despite all the ‘cloud this’ and ‘cloud that’ talk, when it comes down...”
– For 40,000 Gmail Users, Google Has To Leave The Cloud To Review The Tapes