How Long Can “Ad Supported” Last? (10)
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I got in an interesting conversation earlier this week while at a dinner with Sarah Lacy and a number of active D.C. technology participants. At one point in the conversation we began discussing the concept of “ad supported” businesses. If you hang out in the internet entrepreneur circles, you can’t talk to five people without one of them telling you about their hot new business which will of course be advertising supported. I will not ...
Cold Boot Encryption Attack - code release (6)
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Jacob Appelbaum, one of the security researchers who worked on the paper cold boot attack on encryption keys (featured in a previous BBtv episode, above) tells Boing Boing the code has just been released today at the [last] HOPE hacker con in NYC. It's up, it's signed, and here it is. Memory Research Project Source Code [Princeton.edu] Previously on Boing Boing:BBtv "Hacker HOWTO": Cold Boot Encryption Attack. Complete list of authors for the original paper, ...
pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Apple I BASIC as a Mac OS X Scripting Language (4)
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Recently, we reconstructed a perfect copy of Apple I BASIC, the first piece of software Apple ever sold - in 1976. Now it is time to make something useful out of it. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use Apple I BASIC to replace, say, Perl? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do this:$ cat reverse.bas#!/usr/bin/apple1basic10 DIM A$(100)20 INPUT A$30 FOR I = LEN(A$) TO 1 STEP -140 PRINT A$(I,I);50 NEXT I60 PRINT70 ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
Granted, I learned to program via BASIC, but why would I want to replace Perl with BASIC??? Seems like a step backwards.
Mini-blog posts (2)
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I never agreed that Twitter is what some people call a micro-blogging service. Just didn't feel much like blogging to me. But FriendFeed is another story. I am using it more like a blogging tool than Twitter. For example... 1. Yesterday I snuck out to see the new Batman movie on its opening day. I wrote my first review on FF. In the morning (now) I have more thoughts. If Heath Ledger hadn't died, and ...
Feature suggestion for Twitter (10)
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"Like" Is a FriendFeed feature that Twitter should have. It's a misnomer, it's not about liking something. When you like something that means you recommend it. Everyone who follows you gets the recommendation. How it would work in Twitter. 1. You're reading something I wrote in Twitter. 2. You say you "like" it -- which is like adding it to your Favorites (same UI). 3. It goes on your output stream. All the people who ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
Why not just use openid as your identity management system like identi.ca uses?
Facebook’s iPhone App v1.1 Update Makes 1.0 Seem Quaint (5)
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Most anyone currently wielding an iPhone or iPod touch plus the 2.0 software update today is well aware of the volume of convenient apps made themselves available upon Apple’s (somewhat tarnished) App Store launch on July 11. In the social networking department, the most popular comes, perhaps predictably, by way of Facebook. Among the top free applications listed today, it sits in ninth place, just ahead of AIM. Of course, we’ve already spoken about the ...
What about blogging? (10)
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Publishing keeps getting cheaper. That's been the constant push, the practical application of Moore's Law in my neck of the woods. I've always been a publishing guy, and that's always been how I viewed computers, and it's why I got into them in the first place. Most people don't get this, the real story of blogging is just the continuation of the process. You could just have easily focused on the laser printer, Aldus Pagemaker ...
Throttled By the Twitter API? Try Something New. (13)
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Guest Post By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)Well, the microblogging API space sure got interesting in a hurry.First, on Thursday, Louis Gray reported that Twitter was throttling unauthenticated API requests. This obviously would effect several applications in a very bad way. Later in the day, Dave Winer let everyone know that Identi.ca has implemented the Twitter API. And on Friday, in a surprising move, TechCrunch announced that Twitter is sending the XMPP firehose to ...
There's Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones (David F. Gallagher/Bits) (5)
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David F. Gallagher / Bits: There's Lots of Money in Those Old iPhones — I was walking by the lengthy iPhone line outside the Apple Store in Soho on Sunday when I heard someone call out: “Turn in your old iPhone and get the new one free!” — I turned around and saw a bearded guy handing out fliers (photo above).
Facebook App for iPhone 1.1 Released (2)
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Facebook has taken a lot of user feedback into account regarding their initial launch of the Facebook for iPhone application 1 week ago and released version 1.1 today. New features include: writing on friends’ walls viewing friends’ photo albums view friends’ full profiles tagging photos (hold your finder down on the photo) uploading pictures from your library To upgrade, just head to the App Store on your iPhone!
Database machine issue (3)
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A monitoring process on one of our database machines spiraled out of control, causing the machine to become unresponsive. We’ve killed the process and are working on restoring services. Thank you for your patience. Update: and we’re back. Load times may be a bit slow until all services have restarted.
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DOCBook Howto said:
I just don't get why they don't have redundant database servers to keep the system up if they take down one of them. This is amazing to watch!
FriendFeed Friday Tips #7: Who Are These People, Anyway? (25)
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By popular demand, I've been asked by other FriendFeed users to highlight how I use the popular social lifestreaming site. So far the series has covered the "Hide" function, the bookmarklet, advanced search, how to integrate with Google Talk, how you can incorporate comments and determine an item's original source. Today, figuring out who you're engaging with on the service.So far, unlike most social networks out there, FriendFeed doesn't utilize a person's profile as the ...
Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool (55)
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Blogging for all intents and purposes has been around for about the ten year mark. During that time it has gone through many changes as more platforms and tools became available that made it easier and easier for just about anyone to become a blogger. Styles of blogs have grown as well with everything from the original personal weblog style right through to today’s political blogs, tech blogs, and one of the hottest niches around ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
Shared because he used the word, "twaddle" - good article, too :-)
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Garry said:
Posterous gets a prominent mention on a Mashable editorial about how Twitter ISN'T a microblogging platform.
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cvander said:
I agree. twitter is another im. And we need it as a protocol to descentralice it..
Facebook platform 2.0: Is mobile the key? (4)
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Only a year ago, there was a huge buzz around Facebook's new application platform. Big money was made by some, while others simply threw together whatever they could and released it to the masses in the hopes of being the next iLike. Today, the Facebook platform is alive and well, but the hot new platform is the iPhone. People are lining up for hours to get their hands on one, and developers see dollars in ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
*Now* bloggers are starting to get it! Don't forget - I broke the news. ;-)
Gnip to be a nozzle for Twitter’s XMPP firehose (6)
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After another night of downtime there is some good news coming out of Twitter land this morning. The micro-messaging service will open up its XMPP data — known by some as the “firehose” because of the massive amount of service data is sent through it — to new startup Gnip, according to TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington. This is big news not only in that it means Twitter is feeling confident enough about its service to give ...
Apple cofounder wonders if "The Price is Right" [Nerdspotting] (12)
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Was our favorite Segway polo-playing, D-list celebrity-dumping, kitten-saving,iPhone 3G line-cutting Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak a recent audience member at a taping of gameshow The Price is Right? A poster to the MacRumors forum uploaded this screen capture that suggests so. I was getting in my daily dose of TPiR when I noticed somebody in the VIP section (directly behind contestants row) that looked familiar. It was The Woz! They made him put "Steve" on his ...
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Sean said:
For a guy who doesn't watch TV, he sure is on it enough
Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip (50)
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Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at Foo Camp last weekend, Gnip founder Erick Marcoullier was hitting him up to give Gnip, and therefore everyone, Twitter’s XMPP “firehose.” Williams was obviously in a good mood, because I got my interview and, as I just found ...
What Will Facebook Announce at Its F8 Developer Conference Next Week? Let the Speculation Begin. (11)
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Next Wednesday is Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and speculation is swirling about what Facebok might announce at the event. Last year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the Facebook Platform for Web app developers, which is now its own mini-industry. So what will Facebook announce this year? We’ve suggested that Facebook might take the opportunity to expand its open source offering, new profile product, or launch Facebook Connect. My vote is for a payments system (confirmed ...
Twitter, what are YOU doing? (4)
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That the Twitter service is choking up every now and then is nothing new. The Twitter team had made numerous attempts to improve the continuity of the service, as they reduced features such as the reply tab, capping pagination and blocking instant messaging from time to time. It seems that all these efforts have not reduced their down-time at all. Louis Gray mentions that the list of reduced features can be extended once again, as ...
PragDave: If you work for Apple, we need your help... (12)
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Dave Thomas on how the NDA surrounding the iPhone SDK is preventing Pragmatic Programmers from publishing books and screencasts on iPhone Development: So, to write a book about the iPhone SDK, you have to download it. In order to download it, you have to accept the agreement. And the agreement says that the download will contain confidential information that you can’t pass on to third parties. That makes it hard to publish the book. And, ...
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Nick said:
apple, anal stage.
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Rob said:
This is very lame, apple needs to fix this now.
