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.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
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 series presenting tips gleaned from Ryan’s presentation of the YouTube Partner Playbook.
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 by its owner. I’ve been following the product for a while now. You can find two recent (2011) blog posts about it here.
inPulse: Programmable (C/Python) Bluetooth Watch
Check-in to Facebook Places using inPulse Bluetooth Watch & a Smartphone
If this programmable wrist watch interests you and you will be anywhere near Mountain View in California this weekend, you might want to spent some time at the Hackathon sponsored by inPulse.
inPulse Hackathon April 17 – Hacker Dojo in Mountain View
You can download the inPulse simulator (free) to get your wrist watch app development started.
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 a harder exercise to name companies not linking to either or both in their promotions. However, I’d like to argue that the sole dependency on Twitter and Facebook alone is, at best, creating a chance to build relationships and a “2.0″ CRM, and, at worst, allowing organizations to successfully build TV stations with audiences without producing any programming. In a lot of cases, content and related strategy – what is going to be created, by whom, when and distributed where – is missing.
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.
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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 your site and have hovercards, a basic service which creates dynamically linked Twitter accounts on your site. Read on for more!
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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 breaking from the old MySQL replication plus Memcached problems (effectively articulated here). In other words, it’s becoming a pain in the butt to maintain the system so I decided to dive in. Here’s how I first got setup.
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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 easier to understand” and helps “avoid cross-site scripting attacks.”
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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.
