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Careful: Twitter may be storing your contacts

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 02/15/2012 - 11:38

Have you recently used the hand-dandy Find Friends feature found in the official Android and iPhone Twitter apps?

If so, you have authorized Twitter to upload the contents of your entire contacts list to its servers — and to keep them there for 18 months.

The LA Times …


 

Ibuildings techPortal: DPC Radio: Implementing OAuth

PHPDeveloper.org  Wed, 02/08/2012 - 14:20

On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest in their DPC Radio series of podcasts as recorded at last year's Dutch PHP Conference.

In this new episode they share Lorna Mitchell's talk "Implementing OAuth".


 

Effective Scala

Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog  Tue, 02/07/2012 - 12:41

It's from Twitter, It's open source, It's about Scala.

What's not to like?


 

Twitter's New Censorship plan rouses Global Furor

Digg / Tech Industry News  Sat, 01/28/2012 - 15:29

Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.


 

PHPMaster.com: Bending XML to Your Will

PHPDeveloper.org  Thu, 01/26/2012 - 11:04

PHPMaster.com has a new tutorial posted today about "bending XML to your will" - working with XML data using the XML Parser and SimpleXML functionality already included with PHP.


 

5 Apps to Help Manage Your Twitter Account

Mashable!  Thu, 01/19/2012 - 18:22

1. Tweepi

Tweepi's "Flush" option allows you to see the users you follow who are not following you back.

Its "Reciprocate" option allows you to see the users following you who you're not following back.


 

Best Congressional Response To SOPA Yet? Rep. Bruce Braley Takes...

Techdirt  Wed, 01/18/2012 - 20:08

Lots of folks in Congress have been speaking out about SOPA and PIPA today -- and what's fascinating is how many of them are actually using key internet innovations to do so.

Most of the comments we've seen were first made on Twitter and Facebook. But the best response (and by best, we mean funniest) response we've seen today comes from Rep.

Bruce Braley from Iowa.