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 […]
Mashable’s Google Wave API Challenge Ends April 9th
In March, we launched Mashable’s Google Wave API Challenge, a month-long competition to create exciting new Google Wave extensions. Today we’re highlighting the best submissions. Below is an embedded wave (it can be seen here too) with 15+ of our approved submissions. We encourage you to explore, rate and discuss extensions within the Waves directly! […]
Apple Acquires the iPad Trademark
Remember the whole legal dust-up over the trademark for the name iPad? Well, now that’s been resolved. The iPad launch is only a week away and as such, Apple is getting its ducks in a row: accepting submissions for iPad apps to the App Store, making developers use pre-release models in darkened rooms, oh and […]
Appboy Gets a New Design, iPhone App and Best Buy Partnership
Back in October we wrote about Appboy, a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit ideas for new mobile applications. Appboy has just rolled out a big update to its […]
Wi-Fi Stumblers Disappear from Apple App Store
We wrote repeatedly about Apple’s odd and often unfair application approval process. Instead of fixing it, Apple is just getting weirder and weirder about what apps are allowed in the store. The latest example is the sudden disappearance of several Wi-Fi stumbler applications from the app store. Cult of Mac noticed that Apple has removed […]