Some things are better slower.
A Kill Switch on Twitter?
Fascinating thoughts surrounding how Twitter is slowly taking over well-adopted apps and closing them down as they release their own competing clients.
All this is theoretical, but what isn’t is that today Twitter pulled the switch on two high volume Twitter clients, UberTwitter, the leading Blackberry Twitter client, and Twidroyd, which was the leading client on Android until Twitter shipped their own.
Too bad, if it’s true. That means that all those developers who wanted to make a living (or who were) will need to go find another API to crawl.
Modern Browsers Ship!
What makes a “modern” browser? It’s the simple fact that they are updated.
Check out this interactive look at browser history in terms of their releases – it’s quite clear which ones are truly “modern”:
Meeting with Digital Faces
At one point in time stuff like this would look so “sci fi” but now it’s common place to see a talking head on a screen.
My, we’ve come so far.
44% of Online Sharing Occurs Through Facebook [Infographic]
At what point does “sharing” become so over permeated, that it becomes ineffective?
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Sun Acquires MySQL [Comic]
This made me #LOL (and that’s probably pretty telling about me, huh?).
Happy Friday, guys.
(via Geek and Poke)