January 2012
46 posts
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“The long-awaited tech IPO of the year — perhaps of the decade — is on. Facebook...”
– BREAKING: Facebook to File for IPO Next Week [REPORT]
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“We haven’t yet used this ability, but if and when we are required to withhold a...”
– Twitter Blog: Tweets still must flow
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SoundCloud » We Say HTML5, You Say High Five! →
SoundCloud.como releases beta HTML5 player.
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“AT&T says it needs more spectrum and is threatening the FCC that it will end...”
– AT&T CEO Randall Stevenson Blasts FCC, Hints At Higher Prices and Data Restrictions
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“We’ve been tracking the White House’s social media presence in full...”
– Twitter Reacts to the State of the Union 2012 - Expert Labs
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All the Awesome Things You Can Do with a Long... →
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Google Adds Emergency Alerts to Google Maps →
“Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia,...”
– Wikipedia Wants to Be Free — for Mobile Users, in Africa
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Facebook Timeline Is Here To Stay →
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“In the case of Megupload, the site offered premium accounts, which users paid...”
– Megaupload Saga Teaches Painful Lessons About Cloud File Storage
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“The photo editor Picnik, which Google acquired in 2010, will be closed down, and...”
– Google to Close Picnik & Social Graph API, Open-Source Sky Map
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New Google Users Now Forced to Join Google →
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“It’s hard to wrap my brain around the cold cynicism of Apple’s...”
– Why Apple, Why Does it Have to Be Like This? The Cold Cynicism of the iBook EULA
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Foursquare Integrates Menus Option Onto App and... →
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“At the event, Apple introduced tools to craft digital textbooks and demonstrated...”
– Apple rolls out digital textbook service iBooks 2 | Reuters
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Amazon Enters the NoSQL Market with DynamoDB →
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“One of the big reasons why a company is able to go from a few computers in a...”
– blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: A technical examination of SOPA and PROTECT IP
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“So unless you really understand how the iPhone works and what specific...”
– Mute Means Mute
White House Strangles SOPA, Citing Censorship,... →
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Why Facebook's Data Sharing Matters →
The move is being widely condemned in the press as a violation of privacy but if Facebook would do this right, it could be a huge win for everyone.
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Google Maps Pricing Sends Real Estate Site to Open... →
Though most sites won’t hit the free limits, those with a lot of traffic may be scrambling for a solution. That was the case for a New York real estate service, which discovered their bill would be $200,000 – $300,000 per year.
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With SimpleGeo’s Shutdown Imminent, Parse Swoops... →
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Where Are All the Widget-Makers? →
If most API providers are no longer making widgets, that leaves an opportunity for developers.
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Turntable.fm Founder Says He’s Flattered By... →
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SimpleGeo APIs Closed, But Places Data is Open →
Push notification startup Urban Airship is closing the doors on all three APIs from the geo infrastructure company it acquired in October.
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Gmail Gets Offline Attachments, Keyboard Shortcuts... →
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Learn to code, get a job →
So to anyone out there who says you can’t get a job: You can have one. A fun one. Learning code is not about numbers and mathematics. It’s more like architecture, where you are presented with a puzzle problem such as “How do we get all these cars from this highway to that one without having to build a bridge across this river or putting an overpass next to the...
Convore is reborn as Grove.io, a chat service for... →
“You have plenty to keep you busy, but it’s not enough to get advertisers interested, it’s not enough to make venture capital firms interested. So the question becomes: What do you do with a middling social app?”
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“Joel Webber explains what it took for Google to port Angry Birds to...”
– InfoQ: Angry Birds on HTML5
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“Google calls this access to “your web.” So instead of all the public information...”
– Google Merges Search and Google Into Social Media Juggernaut
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“… Tim Tebow’s 80-yard overtime touchdown pass Sunday night reached 9,420...”
– Tim Tebow Pass Lands in Twitter’s Record Book With 9,420 Tweets Per Second
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15 top web design and development trends for 2012 →
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When APIs Play Spoilsport? →
Finally, it is important to consider the number of APIs that have been dropped/discontinued by API vendors. … it forces developers that build their products around them to look for alternatives and also ends up creating an atmosphere where dependence on a single organization to continue providing the API is being seriously reconsidered. It is almost as if you need a plan B or see if it is...
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“Just because you’re a freelancer, you aren’t exempt from deadlines, overtime,...”
– The Truth about Freelance Web Development – Elliot Haughin
“… BetaBait, which launched last month, wants to provide startups with an...”
– Does Your Startup Need Beta Testers? BetaBait Will Hook You Up (Now On Email & The Web) | TechCrunch
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This Online Coding Contest Could Get You a Job... →
“Handpick is a social Web app that doesn’t interfere with the Web itself....”
– Handpick: Selective Social Sharing Without The Noise
OpenTable's rise and fall is a cautionary tale →
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“… Though Apple got around to fixing its battery drain issues, the iPhone...”
– The Latest iPhone Problem Apple Has Yet to Fix: Audiogate - Yahoo! News
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How Facebook gets ready for New Year's Eve →
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Microsoft Celebrates The Demise Of IE6 In The US →
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SOPA, Freedom, And The Invisible War →
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“… Facebook’s latest profile redesign is not visible in IE7, and the...”
– Facebook Timeline Doesn’t Show in Internet Explorer 7
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Spain Gets its Own SOPA-Style Anti-Piracy Law For... →
Uber’s New Year’s Eve Surcharges Demonstrate The... →