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Friday, 30th March 2012

Google Adds New Toys to OAuth Playground

Google opened its OAuth 2.0 playground to developers last November with support for Google properties and non-Google APIs with support for OAuth 2.0 draft 10. Since then, the company has added a number of new toys to the OAuth Playground, including support for testing client-side apps, in addition to testing Web-based applications. In case you…

Hack Joe Brockmeier comments

Digital Lifestyle

On Facebook, Breaking Up With "Friends" is Hard to Do

On Facebook, Breaking Up With "Friends" is Hard to Do

It's not you. It's not me. It's Facebook. During the past 24 hours - partly on the advice of a therapist but mainly over concerns about Facebook's increasingly Draconian service terms - I broke up with 90% of my friends on the world's biggest social network. This is the story of the how and the why of my social media colonic.

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[Poll] Do Developers Think Consumers Like Push Notifications?

Easy, instant push notifications are a phenomenon of modern mobile technology. They deliver news, app updates, requests and prompts to users to complete an action. Mobile developers, marketers and advertisers all see push notifications as a key way to reach an audience at the most personal level: straight into their pockets. This level of personal…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

How Spotify Could Improve Its Mobile UX

Spotify hasn't even been available in the U.S. for an entire year. Still, its growth has been phenomenal, and it appears to be continuing unabated, thanks in part to its deep integration with Facebook. The product's other big initiative of the last several months has been its third-party app marketplace, which extends Spotify's desktop…

Play John Paul Titlow comments

Become Your Own Techmeme: Curating Big Data in the Cloud

Easily the largest contributors to ReadWriteWeb's overall traffic on any given day include technology news aggregation services, one of them being Techmeme. It's a service that pulls interesting headlines from amid the ever-flowing sea of content, and compiles them into an amalgamated front page of what's happening; it's directed toward a…

Scott M. Fulton comments

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