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Did you know that you can to link to a specific Tweet on Twitter? The URL looks like this:
https://twitter.com/#!/edent/status/197967209459499008
Pretty obviously, that’s the user’s name and the ID of their tweet. Simple, right?
Not really, click on that link and you’ll see this:
That’s my name in the URL [...]
I’ve been listening to the Leveson inquiry. A large part of the exchanges seem to go like this:
Jay: Turning to page 51.
Witness: Which bundle?
Jay: 1606.
Witness: 1660?
Leveson: No, the page after.
Jay: Paragraph 7.
Witness: I don’t have a paragraph 7.
Jay: Ah, I [...]
OAuth was designed to combat an anti-pattern.
Typing your username and password into a third party site is bad idea. A really bad idea. I mean, you may think it’s a bad idea to give your bank details to a Nigerian prince but that’s just peanuts compared to giving away your password to an [...]
We live in a world of our own creation. This means we can find it inconceivable that outsiders don’t know the acronyms we use daily. How can anyone possibly live without understanding what we do?
Customers don’t understand your company’s acronyms, processes, or business model.
It’s worse than that, though – most users don’t even [...]
In a mixed paradigm environment, how do you ensure content is surfaced which is context specific?
By which I mean – how do you make your content serve the user’s time-bound constraints?
What I’m trying to say is – serendipitous discovery must be restricted based on temporal imperatives.
Or, to break it down further, a [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about APIs and their design recently.
I stumbled on this fantastic quote from Greg Parker:
When I first started learning C++ (back in the bad old days) I was convinced that any 1st year student could design a better programming language. One which behaved in a sane fashion without a [...]
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If that “sentence” makes any sense to you – you’re not a muggle. Muggles (for want of a better epithet) don’t want to invest a lot of time into things which don’t fit with their mental model of how the world works.
Without getting into a philosophical discussion on what money is [...]
Summary
Twitter’s way of linking URLs is broken. It’s annoying to users, and a pain in the arse to developers. This quick post talks about the problem and offers a solution.
I’ve raised a bug with Twitter and I hope you’ll star it as important to you.
Google Plus has a serious flaw. It’s summed up in this question:
Why are you following me?
I know who I want to share my “I hate my job” posts, and “Oh, my cat is so cute” pictures – but I talk about a wide range of things, not all of which you’ll be interested [...]
The Metro have been on quite a QR splurge recently – this is their latest effort encouraging people to write in to the paper.
On the surface, it’s quite a simple idea – yet Metro have needlessly complicated it.
The Process
The simplest process would be
Scan Code Send Email
That’s not what [...]
Why doesn’t Twitter’s OAuth let me specify the length of time a 3rd party has access to my account? Take a look at all the crap you’ve given access to your Twitter account. Are you ever going to use that “See how many of your friends like cheese” app again? No.
Long time readers [...]
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