A GeoX megmérte a múltkori Facebook-leállás napján keletkezett pozitív és negatív twitek számát. A grafikonon jól látható, hogy mikor történt a Facebook lehalása. Nagyobb verzióért katt a képre! A hasonló vizualizációkból azt tanulhatjuk meg, hogy ma már nem csak az uptime monitorozásából tudjuk megállapítani, hogy egy webes szolgáltatás elérésével problémák vannak. Bizonyos esetekben...
We’ve just gotten an email from Twitter stating that staffers are testing push notifications amongst themselves and the company will be rolling this feature out to all users soon. Push notifications would enable users to get instant, real-time updates for certain types of tweets — probably DMs and @replies and perhaps other kinds of tweets, as well. A few lucky users accidentally got the new fea...
Hurricane Earl is expected to wreak some havoc on the East Coast this Labor Day weekend. According to the the National Hurricane Center , Earl is expected “pass near the North Carolina outer banks tonight [Thursday]… and approach southeastern New England Friday night.” President Obama has declared a state of emergency for North Carolina, and FEMA has deployed teams to North Carolina, Massach...
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Thanks to a partnership with Vlingo , owners of Android 2.0 or higher-equipped phones can now check in to Foursquare and update their status on Facebook and Twitter simply by speaking into their phones.
To try it out, download the free Vlingo app to your Android handset.
Using your voice, you can then update your location status on Foursquare by saying “check into Logan Airport”, lo...
India’s population and the number of mobile phone connections in the country seem to be growing at similar rate. Ok maybe, just maybe, the mobile revolution is growing much faster. A recent report by Boston Consulting Group concluded that India will reach 237 million internet users by 2015. Considering the increasing mobile connections, and the soon to be launched 3G services, the number definit...
The initiative Twitter began back in June to make t.co the default URL shortener for all its users will be completed by the end of this year, said the company in an email it sent out to its entire user base on Wednesday night. The service hopes through this move to improve its security, which has suffered due to the sharing of links pointing to fraudulent sites or malware. But the move is also ...
During their event today in San Francisco, Apple announced iTunes 10, the latest version of their music software. But they also introduced a big new feature in the app — Ping: a social network for music.
It’s like “ Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes ,” Jobs says. “ But it’s not Facebook, it’s not Twitter ,” Jobs is quick to note — “ it’s a social network all about music. ” And guess what? It has ...
Az angol nyelvű sajtóban csak OAuthpocalypse néven emlegetett pillanat bekövetkezett: a Twitter szeptember elsején megváltoztatta az eddigi azonosítási metódusát, így a korábban használt módon már nem azonosíthatjuk a kliensünket. Ez azt jelenti, hogy azok a Twitter kliensek, amelyek nem OAuth segítségével azonosították a felhasználót, mától nem működnek tovább. Ez érinti az Ubuntu közösségi kli...
There is a reason why traditional media professionals will have a hard time making the transition to a new media world.
Just the other day I got into a debate with a seasoned traditional journalist about what the new media means. This individual is still in a highly coveted and well-respected position, so I was surprised by their core thesis as to why we can't trust new media. Ultimately, it b...
Support for basic user authentication in many desktop Twitter applications will end at 8AM Pacific time this Tuesday morning, according to Twitter .
Applications which don't switch to the microblogging service's new 'O Auth' user authentication system, which is touted as being more secure as you only need to provide your password to Twitter, will all API requests met with a 40...
Today could be the last day for some web applications built purely with client-side JavaScript and the Twitter API. According to Twitter, Basic Authentication has been permanently shut off, as promised. While the move should bring better security for many users, it will also make building JavaScript apps without server-side support for OAuth practically impossible due to security issues.
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If your Twitter page looks different, don’t freak out; Twitter is just temporarily disabling the new “Who to Follow” feature. On the Twitter Status blog, Twitter notes that it has “temporarily turned off the … feature” and that it will be “restored as soon as possible.” Twitter rolled out “Who to Follow” last month as a way to give users suggestions for other users to follow. These sug...
Watch out MTV, the music video has just got a new gold standard. Indie band Arcade Fire has released a vid for the song “We Used to Wait” off of their new album, The Suburbs , and it’s basically one big ball of HTML5/Google Maps/musical goodness. The video was announced today on the Official Google Blog , which details exactly what elements went into its creation. Dubbed “The Wilderness Downtow...