New iPhone Could Hit Stores During Apple’s Developer Conference
Apple could put its next-generation iPhone on sale during the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), sources familiar with the situation have told us. That date could be June 7th, the likely date of the WWDC keynote. Over the last two years, Apple has revealed both the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS at WWDC. However, […]
Facebook Open Graph: What it Means for Privacy
At Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference today, the company fleshed out its plans to become the social center of the web. With the new Open Graph API and protocol and the ability to integrate websites and web apps within your existing social network, the platform will become more robust than ever before. The potential for this […]
Facebook “Likes” World Domination
Facebook will host its F8 developer conference this Wednesday, announcing plans to spread its roots through the web. Those plans include a web-wide “Like” button and a social toolbar to be placed at the bottom of your website, reports the NYTimes. It’s all part of Facebook’s plan to follow you around the web, and perhaps […]
Twitter to Developers: Attach Any Data You Want to Tweets
Metadata has long been part of Twitter applications. Viewing conversation threads or learning about a user’s location has changed how users interact with content and have provided third party app developers with great opportunities to innovate on Twitter’s platform. Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s director of platform, announced today at Chirp, the Twitter developer conference, that annotations […]
Conan Comedy Tour Clips Hit YouTube [VIDEOS]
He may be “legally prohibited from being funny on television,” but Conan O’Brien has still managed to capture the attention of a video-viewing audience. More and more fan-made videos from O’Brien’s live comedy show have made their way onto YouTube since the tour kicked off on Monday. The stirrings of virality started yesterday, when one […]
Details: Twitter’s New @Anywhere Platform
Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced at SXSW that his company is taking another step to integrate with the rest of the web with a new platform called @anywhere. Operators of third-party websites will be able to plug in @anywhere to integrate some basic Twitter functionality without requiring their users to navigate away from a […]