Read the full story at:
http://arstechnica.com/security/guides/2010/09/twitter-a-case-study-on-how-to-do-oauth-wrong.ars
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Sep 10
Ars Technica: OAuth is deeply flawed and Twitter’s approach is "by far the worst."
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Sep 10
Latin American Democracies Lash Out at the Press – Newsweek
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http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/31/latin-american-democracies-lash-out-at-the-press.html
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Aug 10
Newspapers on the Run?: The Rise of Mobile Journalism and the Digital Frontier | NewAmerica.net
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Aug 10
Hearst Opening ‘Think Tank’ For Apps | paidContent
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http://paidcontent.org/article/419-hearst-opening-think-tank-for-apps
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Aug 10
Internet wiping out printed Oxford Dictionary
Read the full story at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38903663/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets
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Aug 10
Internet wiping out printed Oxford Dictionary
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38903663/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets
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Aug 10
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From AP via MSNBC: "Since the Civil War, Corning has turned out a glittering array of innovations from railroad signals to Pyrex and auto-pollution filters to optical fiber. Alloting 10 percent of revenue to research keeps promising projects brewing at its Sullivan Park research hub on Corning's hilly outskirts."
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38475126/ns/technology_and_science-innovation
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Jul 10
Flurry: In-app purchases generating lots more revenue per user
I like the mobile version of freemium. On th web it usually means a kind of teired access – or, as the New York Times is planning, metered use. Spend too much time or click on too many links and you'll need to pay for more.
Maybe the difference is simply the spontaneous, handheld experience that makes the mobile variant seem more intuitive. You can get good value out of a free app – or if you really love it, pay for its game, or for new songs or real enhancements that make it better once you've mined the potential of the free experience.
Read the full story at:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/16/flurry-in-app-purchases-generating-lots-more-revenue-per-user
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Jul 10
Social marketing: Good for app maker tap tap tap
via TUAW and app developer tap tap tap, here's an illustration of how to stop advertising and shift a modest marketing budget to prizes for promotional contests. The contests themselves are promoted through social networks.
"tap tap tap doesn't advertise their apps anymore, although it was part of their strategy for their early successes. Now they feel that contests (they gave away an "ultimate camera package" worth about $10K, and have also held weekly best photo contests) are a great way to get free publicity through social media channels."
Read the full story at:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/13/tap-tap-tap-reveals-secrets-of-how-to-succeed-in-the-app-store
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Jul 10
This looks and sounds sooo wicked cool: Darts from the iPhone to the iPad
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http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/07/darts-from-the-iphone-to-the-ipad
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Jun 10
MediaPost’s list of the 100 Most Important Online Publishers
It's a list, not sure it's supposed to be a ranking, because if it is I'm not sure how Facebook (#47) and Oprah (#40) could rank below CS Monitor (#14) or Publish2 (#39). Looks to me more like a fairly random collection of companies in media. It isn't tech-centric (no Apple, no TechCrunch), , it isn't ad, marketing or social media centric.
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http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=129945
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Jun 10
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone: Lara Logan, You Suck
"I thought I'd seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael Hastings on CNN's "Reliable Sources" program, agreeing that the Rolling Stone reporter violated an "unspoken agreement" that journalists are not supposed to "embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter."
Read the full story at:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/122137/83512
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Jun 10
Google Me, Facebook Competitor, Confirmed By Former Facebook CTO
With much stronger and much simpler controls on privacy I'd love to see what GOOG comes up with. But there is a hurdle, too – a fab API to make integration and widespread adoption easy and better than FB.
Read the full story at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/google-me-facebook-compet_n_628997.html
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Jun 10
Should You Auto-Follow Everyone That Follows You?
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http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/twitter-following/should-you-auto-follow-everyone-that-follows-you
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Jun 10
7th-graders discover lava tube and hole on Mars
Students participated in the Mars Student Imaging Program at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F37835185%2Fns%2Ftechnology_and_science-space
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37835185/ns/technology_and_science-space
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Jun 10
VC Funding Opening Up to Social Networking, Cloud Security via @CIOonline
Venture capital funding took a nosedive in 2009 but is set to come back, especially in the Internet sector, as entrepreneurs look for business opportunities in cloud computing, Web security and social networking. – PricewaterhouseCoopers and National Venture Capital Association.
MoneyTree report: https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/index.jsp
Read the full story at:
http://www.cio.com/article/597216/VC_Market_Opening_Up_to_Social_Networking_Cloud_Security
