A really nice posting from mashable.com regarding the upcoming (?) acquisition of TweetDeck for $50.000.000: There has been recent friction between Twitter and UberMedia. In February, Twitter banned UberSocial and Twidroyd for API violations. This was just weeks after the rumors about the TweetDeck acquisition first hit the wires. [...] That brings us to today’s [...]
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50 Most Influential Bloggers of 2009
A nice overview of some influential bloggers: 50 Most Influential Bloggers of 2009 | Make Money Online.
Facebook has taken over Friendfeed
Image via CrunchBase Happy times for all the ex-Googlers around Paul Buchheit. After Facebook has integrated in their own system a Friendfeed-like feed couple of month ago, Facebook has finally aquired Friendfeed for approx. $50.000.000. Take a look at all the happy guys after signing the papers for the deal.
Digg API
The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg. See apidoc.digg.com
Will Silverlight replace Ajax?
Silverlight: AJAX is now an Endangered Species
Jaiku API?
After playing a little bit with Jaiku, i still can’t find an API where i can post messages to the service. That would be a big constraint if there isn’t such an API. :( Update: Because of jyri’s comment, my search has an end. And what an end! There is a whole developer-site for the [...]
Twitter -> Jaiku. Time to change?
The highly regarded Leo Laporte has switched to Jaiku — a Twitter copy-cat — and a lot of people are following him. But Jaiku looks really, really smooth to me and is definitely worth a test. :)
You have the desire to watch a boring male 24/7?
Then check out www.justin.tv. ;) Seems to be a crazy hype these days.
TinyURL: Renaissance because of Twitter
Apparently the TinyURL-service experiences a renaissance because of Twitter. Nearly every URL in Twitter-messages is encoded via TinyURL. Nice.
Ui, ne Menge Kohle
YouTube-Mitgründer Chad Hurley kassierte 694.087 Google-Aktien – plus noch einmal 41.232 Anteilsscheine, die für ihn in einem Trust hinterlegt wurden. Macht zusammen 345 Millionen Dollar (gemessen am gestrigen Kurs der Aktie). Hurley, der in diesem Jahr seinen 30. Geburtstag feiert, kommt allerdings wohl kaum dazu, das Geld leichtfertig zu verprassen: Als CEO von YouTube hat [...]
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