Gowalla now available at the Android Market
It’s been a couple of weeks since Gowalla released a beta version for Android. Now it’s time for the first release which is available at the Android Market. Just go to ‘Market’ and search for ‘Gowalla’. Obviously this is a slightly better version than the beta one. (Note: I had to uninstall the beta version... more »
Twitter: Project Code Swarm
Twitter Code Swarm is a very interesting visualization of the explosive growth of Twitter as a development platform. The video below illustrates the amount of work it takes to build something as seemingly simple as a website that lets you publish 140 character status updates.
The “recording” period starts in April 2006 and ends in... more »
YouTube, HTML5 and the new intriguing Video Page
In case you live in another planet than Earth, YouTube is experimenting with some changes that will shape the future of the way we experience on-line video. First and foremost, HTML5.
-”Just hold on a minute..”, you might say. “Isn’t that the new..?”
-Yes, it is.
-”But is this backwards compatible with my old-dusty-and-almost-gone-forever Internet Explorer 6?”
Nop, is... more »
2010: The year we learned how to ‘check-in’
After the iPhone, the Android and the Palm version it’s time for the Blackberry version of the well-known-and-soon-to-be-the-next-big-thing-in-2010 Foursquare! Yes its true, all the blackberry users can now access foursquare through a beautiful app from their own Blackberry. It’s only been a couple of weeks since Foursquare launched its Palm version and decided to go... more »
Foursquare goes global and launces Palm version
It’s been very-very-very busy start for this year. I was having a conversation with a friend about the technology in 2010 and we both agreed that 2010 is probably going to be the year of tablets or smartphones. After tonight’s event at Google HQ I think I misspelled smartphones. I should have said superphones.
Anyhow a... more »
Foursquare, Gowalla and Rally. How much location can you handle?
Foursquare, Gowalla and Rally. If you are not familiar with these three (3) apps I think it’s time you change this, because 2010 is going to be all about location, location and location. These apps launched in 2009 and are about to get crazy in the following years. All these location-based social applications are excellent... more »
Wordpress 2.9 and the global undo feature
Ho ho ho! Christmas came earlier for Wordpress this year. Wordpress 2.9 is out with features that you are going to love. I think the most handy one is the new global undo/”trash” undo feature. There were times when I wished I could go back in time and prevent me from clicking that “delete” button.... more »
Brizzly – Twitter enhanced
I got my Brizzly invitation last night. When you first activate your account you will be asked to link your Twitter account. After that you can explore every aspect of this new service. In short you may say Brizzly is Twitter enhanced. It has everything Twitter has like Search, Trends and Saved Searches and extends... more »
Wordpress 2.8.5 – The hardening release
Well, well, well… Peter Westwood announced the next version of Wordpress. No, its not the much desired 2.9 version. It’s the 2.85 version aka The Hardening Release, that includes a few fixes (mainly for security) like:
A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of areas within the code where php code... more »
Twitter downtime, Forbidden
Twitter downtime is here once again. This time we got an 403 Error. HTTP Error 403 – Forbidden, states that the web server thinks that the data stream sent by the client was correct but the access to resource identified by the url is forbidden for some reason. Fortunately, everything came back online... more »
