Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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Twitter currently offers a feed of all “public timeline” updates via an informal implementation of the Jabber PubSub specification. If you’re planning a Twitter API project that needs a constant stream of public updates to work, this is the way to do it.
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Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server, written in Erlang/OTP, licensed under GPLv2 (Free and Open Source). Among other features, ejabberd is cross-platform, fault-tolerant, clusterable and modular.
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Java-based XMPP/Jabber server. Formerly known as Wildfire.
(GPL’ed, also available under a commercial license)
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“Gadgets on iGoogle now support canvas view and OpenSocial, a common set of APIs, HTML, and JavaScript designed to let you easily build social applications. Build and test your gadget in the new sandbox for iGoogle.”
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“Over a year after Google shot down their SOAP Search API they released a JSON based one supporting “Flash and other non JavaScript environments”. Strange requirement that an HTTP referer be sent with every request; API key is optional” Via Simon Will
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“Cloud Computing” from an IT security perspective.
CC: “nebulous term covering an array of technologies and services: Grid Computing, Utility Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), Storage in the Cloud and Virtualization”
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“[Marketeers will] be able to monitor what we think directly - at the cellular level. Not only will they be able to spend their marketing budgets more efficiently, but they’ll be able to wield more influence over the purchases we make.” (The Guardian)
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“worth saving… is investigative journalism. We need someone.. to do long, deep, boring research, for stories that may not even pan out. Without that, government at all levels will simply slide back into the nepotism and corruption of the 19th century.”
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