Facebook Prepares to Compete With Gmail: Launches Messaging API
Facebook is moving too fast this week for me to keep up. On the heels of the Acquisition of Gmail-creator-founded FriendFeed, along with the launch of their new search interface, Facebook just took it one step further today. In an announcement on their blog along with associated documentation on their developers wiki, Facebook released a […]
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Facebook to FriendFeed: "You Complete Me"
I have to admit I’m a little behind on the news of Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. My day today consisted of driving through up-state New York, and tonight I sit here typing just about a 15 minute walk from the beautiful Wonder of the World, Niagara Falls. There are so many better things to think about! […]
Read more...Oh, the Trouble With OAuth
This article has been sitting on my desk for the past week or so, and recent activities around the Twitter/Facebook/LiveJournal/Blogger DDoS attacks have made it even more applicable, so it’s good I waited. The problem centers around the “Open” authentication protocol, OAuth, and how I believe it is keeping companies like Twitter who want to […]
Read more...Taking a Stand on Twitter’s Auto-DM Policy #endautodm
I’ve long mentioned my annoyance with automatic DMs after follow and elsewhere. It’s one of the reasons I built SocialToo, and we’re doing things there to combat the process. Unfortunately it’s not perfect. In fact, even with the anti-spam measures SocialToo has in place, it’s getting to the point that most of the DMs I […]
Read more...Twitter’s New Monetization Strategy?
This is just too good not to share. Twitter CEO, Ev Williams, Tweeted this tonight – I’m not quite sure if it was supposed to be a DM, a drunk Tweet, or if he really did actually mean to send that, but I’m clueless as to what it is supposed to mean. Is this Twitter’s […]
Read more...There’s More Than One Way to Store a Password – PerlMonks Hacked
Hackers are in a state of Nirvana as it would appear they hit the gold mine of programmer passwords in a hack of the popular Perl forums and resource site, PerlMonks.com yesterday. The hack claims to have gained access to the database of more than 50,000 passwords, which insanely were stored in plain text in […]
Read more...Hey Utah, You Have a Tech PR Problem
Those like myself that live in Utah know there is a thriving tech startup community here. From early startups like Omniture, Freeservers, and Wordperfect, to newer ventures like SocialToo, TweetBeep, TodaysMama.com, FusionIO, i.TV (previously number 1 in the iTunes app store), and FamilyLink (the makers of the Facebook App, We’re Related, one of the top […]
Read more...FriendFeed Opens Up the Firehose to Developers
FriendFeed seems to be staying one (or two or three) step(s) ahead of Twitter in everything they do. Today FriendFeed released their real-time stream of data in beta to any and all developers wishing to write applications. Unlike Twitter, there is no application necessary, no NDA to sign, and all is controlled by simple OAuth. […]
Read more...With No Notice, Twitter Adds More Limits – Password Trouble Ensues
Twitter is up to their old antics of adding limits again, changing the API, and not telling developers as they do so. This morning Twitter released into production new limits around their verify_credentials() method in the API, only allowing users to verify their usernames and passwords through Twitter applications 15 times per hour. The problem […]
Read more...Twitter Looking to Raise the Dead With Previous Tweets
One of the biggest complaints about Twitter is that it is only a “present-tense” service. To pull up a previous conversation or post, I either have to have favorited it, or it has to have been in the previous 3200 Tweets of a user. Anything beyond that disappears forever, or so it would seem. Twitter […]
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