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Twitter Maturation Continues As They Embrace Developers
As Twitter grows from early adopter curiosity to full-fledged mainstream phenomenon, the company is undergoing a much-anticipated and much-welcomed maturation process, one that comes following the company's highly-visible raise of a significant ventu...
Open Web Foundation Speeds Protocols\' Legal Contracts
On Tuesday, the Open Web Foundation released an agreement aimed to speed new specifications' ability to be adopted by downstream users, with the intent of spreading open tools throughout the Web. Though occupying the always-complicated intersection o...
Open Web Foundation Speeds Protocols\' Legal Contracts
On Tuesday, the Open Web Foundation released an agreement aimed to speed new specifications' ability to be adopted by downstream users, with the intent of spreading open tools throughout the Web. Though occupying the always-complicated intersection o...
Let\'s Be Trends: Brizzly Introduces Trends API for Twitter Devs
Even though Brizzly is in its infancy, the service is clearly thinking outside the box when it comes to providing a new user interface for Twitter, including the in-line display of images and video, Web-based groups, a new approach to direct messages...
Twitterfall Launches Twitter Reply Search Engine
As Twitter develops, the service's users are pushing the envelope beyond the company's initial expectations - taking what was supposed to be vanilla status updates to a small group of friends, and extending it to include features that are practically...
Google Alerts Gets PubSubHubbub, Real-Time Programmable Hooks
The Web is speeding up, and Google is playing a big role in making how we get our information faster - no matter its type. Recently, a pair of the company's engineers, Brett Slatkin and Brad Fitzpatrick, have teamed up to roll out a new protocol, Pub...
Progress Being Made On Twitter's Network After 10 Days of Attacks
After an initial wave of attacks brought the popular micromessaging service to a standstill, as well as a host of other social networking sites, on August 7th, the Twitter team has been fighting to turn the tide and restore access for the service's c...
Twitter to Embrace Retweeting, Releases Developer Preview API
For many people using Twitter, the act of retweeting is a major part of how they help share information. Popular Web sites, such as Tweetmeme, have developed to show the most popular tweeted items each day, frequently highlighting the largest Twitter...
PostRank Real-Time APIs Deliver Relevant Data Based On Engagement
PostRank, formerly AideRSS, is well-known on the social Web for its tabulation of "hot" blog posts and influential authors, based on social activity, including total number of comments, links within Technorati or Google, and postings to news sites, s...
Twitter's "Harsh and Cold" Honesty Tells Devs No ETA for Fixes
The much-discussed distributed denial of service attacks over the last two days which hobbled Twitter and also impacted a number of other sites, including Facebook and LiveJournal, has also had a tremendous negative impact downstream, bringing many t...
TweetStats Down More than 24 Hours As Twitter Attacks Cache Issues
TweetStats: Closed Since Sunday AfternoonOn Sunday, we mentioned Twitter had run into a bug that masked the display of third party clients on the service, erroneously reporting all updates as coming from "Web", whether they were, or if they were inst...
