Posts Tagged ‘Development’

When personal computers were first sold they had to include a programming language so that people could write programs to make them useful. While that is no longer the case for PCs, and certainly is not for smartphones thanks to their app stores, you might still encounter situations where no app is available that is [...]

AllFacebook Marketing Conference returns to San Francisco on June 28-29! Join us and get a how-to guide for marketing to Facebook’s 800 million users. A full agenda will be announced soon. Keep an eye on our event site for more information. Special early pricing is available for only $249 until this Wednesday, February 15, so register today.

Earlier this year we wrote about how Android users are not buying apps. Earlier reports also stated that iPhone users buy more apps than Android users. Well, a Gigaom article suggests that those numbers are changing, but with a twist. According to the article, which cites data from Distimo, in-app purchases account for 72% of [...]

The challenge for mobile application developers is being able to make their apps available for a multitude of platforms, each of which have different development environments that require writing separate applications. A small developer may have to choose to only write their app for only one platform because that is all they can afford to [...]

From marketing to software development, work-from-home projects are on the rise as businesses downsize and more people look for work online. Over the past few years, work from home projects relating to social networks and social media have become an increasingly important part of this market. And the latest report on the state of the [...]

Twitter is just one more of the many tech companies who are turning to custom data management solutions due to the high volume of user-generated data. As an alternative to the fairly common practice of ‘sharding’ a database (splitting it up over several computers), Twitter came up with a solution they call Gizzard, which they’ve [...]

Not only have the Twitter platform and API enabled hundreds of 3rd-party applications, they have helped spawn 43 other APIs — or Application Programming Interfaces — as well as a decent number of application opportunities.

If you work on 3rd-party tools built over Twitter’s API and have noticed a problem with the URLs of updated profile pics, tweetimages now offers a solution to the problem. According to the tweetimages website, the problem lies in the in the profile_image_url attribute of a user’s profile because it links to an Amazon S3 [...]