CBM: How will the integration work?
TM: The images will be owned by Twitter [Not so, according to Twitter]. When a user uploads an image, a page will come up with the image, powered by Photobucket. Users will then be prompted to register with a Photobucket account.
This just sounds plain wrong. As a Twitter user I shouldn't be required to create a new account before I can post a photo. Simplicity be gone.
Also: how is this supposed to work with users sending their photos via MMS and what is Apple going to say about this?
Let's just hope (for Twitters sake) that there's some part missing in Munro's explanation.
The weakness stems from the improper implementation of an authentication protocol known as ClientLogin in Android versions 2.3.3 and earlier, the researchers from Germany's University of Ulm said. After a user submits valid credentials for Google Calendar, Twitter, Facebook, or several other accounts, the programming interface retrieves an authentication token that is sent in cleartext. Because the authToken can be used for up to 14 days in any subsequent requests on the service, attackers can exploit them to gain unauthorized access to accounts.[..]
With more than 99 percent of carriers offering their users Android versions with known security weaknesses, the report demonstrates how little success Google has had in getting its partners to upgrade to the latest versions. Many Verizon Wireless customers, for instance, remain stuck with Android 2.2.2, despite containing vulnerabilities that have been known about for months.
If there'd only be a mobile phone OS where security fixes could be pushed out to customers without various companies standing in the way... But I guess that's the price you have to pay if you want to be "open".
In 1938 Buckminster Fuller coined the term ephemeralization to describe the increasing tendency of physical machinery to be replaced by what we would now call software. The reason tablets are going to take over the world is not (just) that Steve Jobs and Co are industrial design wizards, but because they have this force behind them. The iPhone and the iPad have effectively drilled a hole that will allow ephemeralization to flow into a lot of new areas. No one who has studied the history of technology would want to underestimate the power of that force.
Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller, is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing".
The big question of course, is why Apple is storing this information. I don’t have a definitive answer, but my little-birdie-informed understanding is that consolidated.db acts as a cache for location data, and that historical data should be getting culled but isn’t, either due to a bug or, more likely, an oversight. I.e. someone wrote the code to cache location data but never wrote code to cull non-recent entries from the cache, so that a database that’s meant to serve as a cache of your recent location data is instead a persistent log of your location history. I’d wager this gets fixed in the next iOS update.
Sounds likely and I also guess the data will disappear or at least be kept to a minimum in an upcoming update.
While I have yet to decide if I like Tweetbot any more, or less, than I like the official Twitter app — I did note two annoying things:
- The app doesn’t have the “one” single feature that is unique to it.
- The app feels like a nice wrapper of eye candy applied over the existing apps out there (mainly the official Twitter app).
This though is a very common problem that I see over and over in the App Store and I think it comes from the amount of saturation that app categories like RSS feed readers, note taking apps, and Twitter apps are experiencing. It’s not a factor of bad development — it’s groupthink, or perhaps more accurately lack of innovation.
He's got a point. The only features that somehow differentiate Tweetbot from other Twitter clients are the swiping gestures, especially when it comes to "related tweets".
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Simply insert this Javascript at the end of your page, and you too can see a constant display of #inanehashtags, this week's terrible movie release, and random jabberings of popular culture that don't interest you or your users in the least [..]
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