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Friday, 30th July 2010

Like a Robot Struck by Lightning: Gowalla to Launch Write API, Possibly With Pictures

Imagine you were a robot who only knew how to describe the world in four ways: self, other, time, and object. Now imagine you were struck by a bolt of lightning and found your robot brain aware of a whole new column in the spreadsheet...Place. You'd feel like a whole new robot and you'd probably sing a very happy robot song. That's what the…

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Twitter Annotations Not Coming Soon, After All

This spring at Twitter's first developer conference Chirp the big splash was a forthcoming feature called Annotations. The feature will allow publishing software to annotate Tweets with a wide open variety of metadata, which could then be read and analyzed by other software. Annotations are going to be big, if and when they launch. At Chirp it…

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Survey Finds Gap in Attitudes Between the Cloud "Haves" and "Have-Nots"

London-based communications SaaS provider Mimecast has announced the results of its second annual Cloud Adoption Survey. The survey, conducted by independent research firm Loudhouse, assessed the attitudes of IT decision-makers in the U.S. and UK about cloud computing. And the results are unsurprising, echoing the findings from elsewhere: the…

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Elegant.ly Finding a Designer for Your Startup

The design and user experience of a site is often a make or break experience. Users, company hires and investors are heavily swayed not only by how neat a site looks, but how well thought out it is. Simply put, if your site is bad on the experience or design front, it makes it look like your team can't execute, which is about the worst thing…

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Developer of Android App That Transmits Users' Voice Mail Passwords Denies Malicious Intent

Update: Google has lifted the suspension of the apps in question. Many news outlets, including ReadWriteWeb reported yesterday that the first piece of Android malware may have been discovered in the wild. It now appears that we were mistaken. In an interview with Android Tapp Jackeey Wu, the developer of the wallpaper app in question, denied…

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