If your web server can detect a mobile browser and redirect from regular to mobile-optimized URL, it should be able to do the opposite.
Chairman Gruber, who follows up with this:
(And of course, better still would be for one URL to work across all browsers, mobile or not.)
It’s all a great demo, now, but when Siri tells your wife you’re working Kate tonight, there will be hell to pay.
I wish the Kindle Fire all the very best but, at $300, 7” and no email client, if you say “iPad killer” I will punch you in the face.
Twitter needs a far more aggressive, automated, proactive, heuristic-based anti-spam system. And if someone has trouble legitimately tweeting a link with no text to 100 people in a row who don’t follow them at precise 1-minute intervals, that’s just the price we’ll have to pay.
Seems smart: you only see ads from brands you follow, and it’s easy to dismiss ads from the Twitter.com timeline.
Google claims $4bn for Nortel patents is inflated. Says patent bubble will burst. Pays $12bn for Moto’s patents. Righto.
Twitter’s just announced that all developers will need to request greater permissions from the user in order to access direct messages. On the surface, it’s a great move. Granularity in the API is a good thing. Something I’ve been looking forward to.
Unfortunately, in order to access Direct Messages all clients will be forced to send users off to the Twitter.com website to authenticate. If you’re using xAuth, as nearly all desktop and mobile clients do, you’ll need to break with the simplicity of a username / password sign in and throw the user off to a web browser (or web view) in order to continue.
As you’d expect, Twitter’s own clients are exempt from the change - despite the fact that it’s fairly easy to extract the OAuth keys from Twitter for Mac to use them to masquerade as that app - and apps such as Twitterrific, Tweetbot will have to change (nay, ruin) their sign-in flow to simply continue working.
The only people who haven’t clicked “skip intro” on your site are you, your flash developer and people on an iPhone that can’t see it at all.
Ben Brooks’ article on the way Twitter works, and the idea of how you don’t need to reciprocate a follow on Twitter, struck a chord with me.
The beauty of Twitter is the follow model itself: you can subscribe to anyone{^1]. If Gruber tweets about Baseball too much, and you don’t like baseball, you should meet my friend the unfollow button.
Extrapolating from Twitter, there’s a ridiculous sense of ‘We need better solutions to manage our signal to noise ratio”. The reality is that people tend to be all ‘subscribe subscribe subscribe’ and fail to cull the things they really don’t want. See also: Push Notifications.
Impressive new Twitter client from the Tapbots team. MacStories has an indepth review.
I’m loving the app so far - it’s $1.99 on the App Store.
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