TechCrunch:
Today, during the Filtering the Stream roundtable at our RealTime CrunchUp, Seesmic’s Loic Le Meur asked why Facebook isn’t giving third parties access to their Friend Lists. Obviously, that’s a good question now that Twitter (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff is sitting down with TechCrunch IT editor Steve Gillmor and TechCrunch co-editor Erick Schonfeld to discuss the socialization of the enterprise. Benioff recently unveiled his own (Read More)
Submitted by krisnelson
from blog:
Image via CrunchBaseApple’s “app store” continues to generate controversy through its rejections. I must agree with the following analysis that use of icons–especially as provided through an API expressly for that purpose sho (Read More)
Submitted by komakino
from blog:
This is admittedly a little technical. But the gist of it is that RogueSheep sort of got screwed by having their app rejected for this. Their app linked to a version of the Three20 framework that overrode, not called, a priva (Read More)
ProgrammableWeb:
There’s no doubt that Wikipedia is a giant store of information. And yes, they have an API, but the data isn’t exactly structured. But that didn’t stop Jim Blackler, who created Quizipedia, a fun game based off of Wikipedia e (Read More)
eWeek - RSS Feeds:
Twitter Nov. 19 released its geotagging API to programmers, but users won't yet be able to access location-based services from the Twitter.com Web site. The feature, which allows users to selectively annotate their tweets wit (Read More)
Mashable!:
In the month or so since Twitter started rolling out its Twitter Lists feature, a number of web and Adobe AIR based clients have added support for it.However, we haven’t seen any native Twitter apps support Lists. Today Realm (Read More)
Submitted by komakino
from blog:
One consequence of Apple’s crackdown on the use of private API calls is that some apps are using them, or at least including them in their binaries, without knowing it. One popular open source framework, Joe Hewitt’s Three20 (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. I’m taking some notes as we go.[Costolo talks about why they changed the question from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?"]Costolo: In user res (Read More)
AppScout:
Twitter on Thursday released long-awaited location-tagging features for the Twitter API. The new feature will allow users to embed their locations with their tweets. For privacy reasons, it's strictly an opt-in feature--meani (Read More)
Engadget:
Hope you weren't enjoying watching YouTube on the television screen, Popcorn Hour and other set-top box manufacturers have been given notice by the newly 1080p and network TV-friendly website that they are no longer welcome t (Read More)
L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Thing Labs in their San Francisco office. Chris Wetherell, middle left, and Jason Shellen, middle right. Credit: Mark Milian / Los Angeles TimesThe mad scientists at Thing Labs have a very impressive track record.On the sixth (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Firefox with Greasemonkey: Gmail recently made a few tweaks to its message count API, leaving tools like the favicon message indictors by Eric Bogs and Peter Wooley, along with Gina's own Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension, bro (Read More)
Rev2.org:
Although most Web browsers can return general IP information to the server so that site owners can target ads, products, etc. towards visitors, these are usually relatively general and non-specific. Melissa Data, based in Ca (Read More)
Submitted by Mahendra
from Google Reader:
I’m following the stories of the Google Chrome OS release today and am a bit concerned about some of the claims that are being made. Mashable even goes to the extent of predicting Google is going to “destroy the desktop” wit (Read More)
Submitted by loucypher
from Google Reader:
Back in August we announced plans to release the Retweet feature along with an API to publish and consume retweets. Over the last few months we've been gradually opening up the feature to more users as we performance test a (Read More)
Submitted by loucypher
from Google Reader:
As you may have seen on the Twitter blog [1], geotagging is now available for all users and developers throughout Twitter's APIs. Specific geotagging methods have been added and existing formats expanded to accommodate thi (Read More)
Wired Top Stories:
Serious work has begun on Internet Explorer 9, the next revision of Microsoft’s flagship web browser.That sounds like good news, right? After all, IE8 has its moments, but it isn’t exactly a cutting edge browser. Certainly, a (Read More)