If you want to know about the future Twitter’s attempting to build for itself, the best source is the company’s own developer blog. On Thursday, it featured a post by Twitter’s Michael Sippey outlining some changes. The piece …
App.net Made Its Goal. But Can It Make It?
When I last (and first) wrote about App.net — an ad-free, developer-friendly, would-be Twitter competitor — I was wondering whether it would meet its goal of raising $500,000 via a Kickstarter-esque crowdfunding system by …
App.net: Both Twitter Clone and Anti-Twitter
Dalton Caldwell is a San Francisco entrepreneur who founded iMeem (a music-centric social network which was bought and then shuttered by MySpace) and Picplz (which lost the iPhone photo-sharing war to Instagram). Back on July 1, …
Yes, the New iPhone Could Cost $800 – You’ll Probably Pay $200, Though
There’s a double rainbow of trending Twitter topics right now: iPhone 5 $800 and #800DollarsForAniPhone. The people of Twitter are aghast! Aren’t iPhones supposed to cost $200? “For $800, this phone better [insert outrageous …
Twitter Political Index Measures Sentiment About Obama and Romney
Happiness and rage: Twitter has both.
After trying to figure out which tweets are positive and which are negative, such “sentiment data” is being used to reflect the public’s general mood about certain topics. If you’re mad or …
Apple Buying into Twitter: Neither Likely nor Implausible
We already know that Apple is a Twitter fan. It’s baked the social network into both of its operating systems, OS X and iOS, in a manner that’s a departure from its tradition of building every possible aspect of its products …
“I wish I could say that today’s outage could be explained by the Olympics or even a cascading bug. Instead, it was due to this infrastructural double-whammy.”
Why Google or Facebook Buying Your Favorite Startup Means It’s Probably Toast
When I learned this morning, via Twitter, that the small company behind Mac/iOS e-mail app Sparrow was being bought by Google, I almost didn’t need to read the startup’s announcement to know the upshot.
Google and Facebook buy …
Report Says People Are Happier with Google+ than They Are with Facebook
When it first arrived on the scene, Google+ was like the new rich kid at school, throwing its money around and inviting people to hyped-up things they weren’t really interested in.
Then, according to the American Customer …
What You Need to Know About the Latest Twitter Privacy Ruling
Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets have a great deal of information about all of us — and the government wants to be able to see it. Last week, the government scored a major win — and Internet privacy lost big — when a judge ruled against Twitter in a fight over a trove of information about a political …
Sweden to Colbert: Sorry, You Can’t Run Our Twitter Feed
It was fun while it lasted. “Operation Artificial Swedener” appears to have been unsuccessful, meaning comedian Stephen Colbert won’t be getting his hands on the keys to Sweden’s national twitter account.
via Sweden to …
I Visit the U.S. Open: A Day of Golf, and No Tech
I can’t claim to be a serious golf fan–or, really, a golf fan at all–but for the past four years, I’ve been looking forward to attending this year’s U.S. Open at San Francisco‘s historic Olympic Club.
That’s because my wife …