Posts Tagged ‘Programming’

YouTube has big plans for 2012. According to The Wall Street Journal, they’ll be getting into the regularly scheduled programming biz, launching at least a dozen new curated channels with regularly scheduled content spanning themes from fashion to sports and everything in between.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

YouTube is working on a Partner Playbook, chock full of tips to help their partners build their audiences, optimize discovery and maximize views.  At a YouTube Partner MeetUp in New York on June 16, 2011, Ryan Nugent from the YouTube Next Up Lab presented a draft of the Playbook.  This is part two in a [...]

The common wisdom is that most people, especially young people, do not wear or use wrist watches. However, regardless of where you stand on this issue, I would gamble that the inPulse Bluetooth wristwatch will interest almost any gadget fan. This watch not only communicates wirelessly with phones using Bluetooth, it can also be programmed [...]

Programmers worldwide are chomping at the bit for their chance at glory in the first ever Facebook ‘Hacker Cup’. In between bit-chomps, however, they’re taking the time to chuckle at the fear the word ‘hacker’ strikes into the hearts of a public that still is very confused about its true meaning.

Leslie Bradshaw is the President and co-founder of JESS3, a creative interactive agency specializing in social media and data visualization. Her content creation platforms of choice are SlideShare and TwitPic. How many times a week do you see brands use Twitter and Facebook in their marketing efforts? These days it seems as though it’s almost [...]

Tired of generating new ideas within a distributed database system for billions of messages? We’re getting tired too! Thankfully, Twittter has open sourced a new product this evening called “Snowflake”, which enables developers to generate new ID numbers, by combining timestamp, worker number, and sequence number, something produced through Apache Zookeeper.

Talk about an easy implementation! Twitter’s new “Anywhere” platform will leave you feeling like a programming genius once you’ve become set up. Prior to going into substantial details about how to configure Twitter @anywhere, we thought it would be useful to provide a quick demonstration about how to get set up with Twitter @anywhere on [...]

After reading about distributed database solutions and watching the entire NOSQL movement I had to figure out a way to start building something on a distributed database system. While I only needed one server to get started on (i.e. I didn’t need multiple database nodes right away), I already have a couple projects that are [...]

On the heel’s of Facebook’s announcement of HipHop for PHP — their “source code transformer” of the PHP scripting language which many Facebook applications are built upon — comes XHP, an extension to inline XML. The full impact of using XHP is still to be determined, Facebook’s Marcel Laverdet says that this makes “front-end code [...]

Over the past couple days, MySpace has been communicating with developers about a couple of issues. The first issue was the creation of a new tool that enables developers to run Flash files within applications. Rather than hosting the files on their own servers, developers must upload flash files to MySpace’s servers using the form pictured below:

This new model provides developers with script access while still protecting MySpace from harmful external scripts. Check out the MySpace post for more details. The second announcement made by MySpace is the introduction of an oAuth Tool which assists developers in constructing properly formatted query strings.

The new oAuth tool “allows developers to generate a Base string and a Signature along with request querystring, so that they can compare what a valid request looks like to what they’re own servers are producing for server-to-server RESTful API calls.” I’m sure that this tool will help resolve confusion for many of the developers that were facing challenges with creating proper HTTP requests.

A screen shot of the new tool is displayed below. If you’d like to learn more about the updates, go check out the MySpace developer blogs.