Mozilla platform engineer Rob Sayre has probably had better ideas.
Hoping Microsoft might allow Firefox on their new Windows Phone 7 Series, Sayre wrote an open letter this morning to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. “Hola, amigo. I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya,” is how it starts.
He then proceeds to make [...]
Tags: Apology, Apps, Bet, Ceo Steve Ballmer, Cocoa, Companion Tool, Concise Paragraphs, Engineer, Firefox, Iphone, Jelly Beans, Jim Anchower, Long Time, Microsoft Ceo, Ndk, Sayre, Sdk, Steve Ballmer, Ui, Windows Phone
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Sat, March 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Twitter appears to be on the verge of some big changes to its website if a tweet that Twitter engineer Alex Payne sent today is any indication. In fact, the new features may be so good that they could make some people re-examine their use of desktop Twitter clients, apparently. As Payne writes:
If you had [...]
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Sun, February 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Facebook has acquired its third company, Malaysian startup Octazen Solutions. Facebook says this is largely a talent acquisition, according to GigaOm. Octazen has a slightly different story on their home page, saying Facebook acquired “most of the company’s assets and to employ those assets in a different direction.”
Either way, it’s leaving some people scratching their [...]
Tags: Address Book, Anonymous, Apis, Assets, Contacts, Creative, Credentials, Different Story, Download Book, Engineer, Facebook Friends, Graph, Scrapers, Social Networks, Talent Acquisition, What The Heck
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Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
As soon as Google Buzz was released earlier today, all the early adopters piled in to give it a spin. Paul Buchheit, the creator of Gmal and a founder of FreindFeed, was among them and his initial reaction was: “This seems vaguely familiar . . .” Or, as he put it elsewhere, “There’s [...]
Tags: Buzz, Deficiencies, Early Adopters, Email, Engineer, Fashion, Flickr, Gmail, Gmal, Google, Initial Reaction, Link Photo, Mail, Silo, Social Commentary, Status Updates, Streams, Tweet, Tweets, Videos
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Wed, February 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments