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Regularly Scheduled Programming Coming To YouTube In 2012

Megan O'Neill — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:05:13 +0000

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.
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7 Online Video Programming Tips From The YouTube Partner Playbook

Megan O'Neill — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:00:36 +0000

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.

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inPulse Bluetooth Wristwatch Hackathon on April 17 in Mountain View, CA

Todd Ogasawara — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:57:58 +0000

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.

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Facebook Reveals "Hacker Cup"… And A Clear Misunderstanding Of The Term "Hacker"

Richard Howard — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:20:59 +0000

On December 10, Facebook announced its first Hacker Cup. Engineers world-wide have been atwitter (terrible pun intended) about the opportunity for programming glory – and also the hilarity of the public’s fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of hacking.

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Strategizing Beyond Twitter and Facebook

Neil Vidyarthi — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:00:59 +0000

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.

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Twitter Open Sources Snowflake, An ID Number Generator

nickoneill — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:07:56 +0000

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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How To Setup Twitter Anywhere On Your Site In 5 Minutes

nickoneill — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:37:40 +0000

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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How To Configure Cassandra On A CentOS Media Temple DV Server

nickoneill — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:15:44 +0000

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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Facebook Adds XHP to the PHP Improvements Mix

rajdash — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:14:54 +0000

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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MySpace Releases New Developer Tools

nickoneill — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:30:25 +0000

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.

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