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Twitter’s new OAuth Problem

By On 12/02/2010 · 4 Comments · In mobile, politics, usability

Twitter have announced that all third party site will have to use OAuth.  You will no longer be able to just type in your username and password to get access to Twitter via your favourite web client.

Usually, I would be a big fan of this move – especially if it forces password [...]

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Twitter OAuth – Mobile Failures

By On 07/02/2010 · 4 Comments · In mobile, usability

I’m a big fan of OAuth – despite some claims to the contrary. It’s an excellent way of teaching people not to stick their username and password into any old site which asks for it. Which is why I’m so incredibly disappointed in Twitter’s implementation of mobile OAuth.

For a service which started out [...]

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Dabr Widget for 360 H1

By On 21/01/2010 · 1 Comment · In mobile

I’ve written a very basic JIL widget to launch dabr.  You can grab it from http://shkspr.mobi/Dabr.wgt

I’ve tested this to work on the Vodafone 360 H1 – but it should work with any JIL handset.

Because it isn’t certified, you may need to dial

*#35767#

to remove the

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Integrating AudioBoo and Phreadz with Dabr

By On 30/12/2009 · 1 Comment · In mobile

A quick explanation of how I integrated AudioBoo and Phreadz with Dabr.

I’m a big fan of AudioBoo – for those who don’t know it,  AudioBoo allows you to record some audio on your phone and then publish it to the web.  It’s like instant podcasting.  Originally only for the iPhone, AudioBoo now works [...]

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Seesmic Twitter Client for BlackBerry

By On 22/11/2009 · 2 Comments · In mobile, usability

Seesmic, a service I’ve not tried before, have released a Twitter client for the BlackBerry. Is it any good? How does it compare with the features of Dabr or the usability of UberTwitter? Find out!

Getting the client was fairly simple, but could be better. Simply visiting http://seesmic.com was enough to [...]

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Embedding Mobile YouTube in Dabr / Twitter

By On 27/09/2009 · 3 Comments · In mobile

I’ve decided to add a preview of YouTube videos into Dabr, the mobile Twitter service.

The code is fairly simple – although I still suck at regular expressions.

if (preg_match_all(‘#youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([_-\d\w]+)#’, $tmp, $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER) > 0) { foreach ($matches[1] as $match) { $images[] = theme(‘external_link’, “http://m.youtube.com/watch?v={$match}”, “<img src=’http://i.ytimg.com/vi/{$match}/1.jpg’ class=’twitpic’ />”); } } [...]

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Expanding URLs in Dabr / Twitter

By On 08/09/2009 · 7 Comments · In /etc/

I hate shortened URLs with a passion.  It makes it hard to see what a link is and whether I’ve visited it before.  If they fail – like tr.im threatened to do – you lose your links with no way to see where they once went.

So, hurrah for LongURLPlease – a [...]

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Twestival – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

By On 15/02/2009 · 2 Comments · In /etc/

Woooo! Twestival! YAYAYAYAY! Errr… Well, no. Not really. After the success of last year’s London Twestival, I thought this one would be even better. Looks like I was wrong. Let’s start with…

The Good
Once again, it’s impossible to feel anything other that gratitude and humbleness in the face of the sheer amount [...]

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Mobile Twitter on the Blackberry

By On 06/10/2008 · 3 Comments · In mobile, usability

Twitter == Addictive. CrackBerry == Addictive. Twitter + BlackBerry == toxic levels of addictivenessicity.

This is a quick review of some of the mobile Twitter interfaces and how well they work on the BlackBerry. I’m just looking at mobile web interfaces (for now).

Mobile Twitter

First off – the official mobile Twitter interface –

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