On Monday of this week, Twitter reiterated its demands that third-party developers of software interfaces and/or added features to the enormously popular ‘micro-blogging’ site hold development on their products. As Juan Carlos Perez points out in an article published on MacWorld.com, those third-party developers are neither happy nor stopping their development.
Social Media: Newspaper Abandons Newsprint. Uses Facebook Instead.
Much has been in the news about the role of social media to spark and sustain the revolutions going across the north African/Arabian region. A small irony amidst the bloodshed and tragedy of a tyrant killing his own people is that most Libyans had to revert to overseas 1990s dialup to wield the power of […]
Far More Developers Than Users of Location-Based Social Media
We shared with you last week a story published by The Wall Street Journal about how mobile applications draw our personal data from our devices in ways few of us understand. We would expect our social-media apps to do such (Facebook, our myriad of Twitter-based software, FourSquare, etc.), but The WSJ found that information-based apps […]
Why Egypt’s Government Shut Down Social Media, Not Land Lines
We make no claims whatsoever to bringing any political, religious, economic, or aesthetic insight on the momentous events unfolding in Tunisia, Egypt, and now (perhaps) Yemen. We encourage our readers to go to a few respected news sources to get a better sense of what is going on there, and how these rebellions (the names […]
Apple Sued Over Mobile Apps’ Lack Of Privacy-Tip Of The Iceberg?
The turn of the year has not been especially kind to Apple Inc. and its insanely popular (though not ubiquitous) iPhones and iPads. A widely-reported (and satirized) bug in the clock/alarm application meant many millions were not awoken by their alarms in the first few days of 2011, for example. Yet the bigger problems started […]
Holiday Retailers Have “Lost Control Of Their Shoppers”!
No, we don’t mean that door-busting deals have returned to the insane smack-down ‘running-of-the-bulls-in-Pamplona‘ kinds of stuff found on Black Friday a few years ago. We are referring to a quote by Vodafone chief executive (in the United Kingdom) Guy Laurence in TheGuardian.co.uk. His point is that stores have traditionally sought to steer their customers […]
Twitter Joins The Trip To Location-Based Social Media
Twitter recently, if coyly, announced that its developers are working on a beefed up Places-like feature that allows Twitter-ers to specify the location from which their tweets are sent. The feature is not new to Twitter, but the company’s reminding the public of it suggests an effort to steal some thunder from (or ride the […]