After months of anticipation, Twitter finally ripped off the Band-Aid Thursday and laid out the changes to how it shares data with developers. The message is as clear as ever: Twitter doesn’t want any client apps that aren’t made by Twitter itself. For those clients that are already out there, the changes will not...
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Remember that third building that Facebook reportedly is building at its data center in Prineville, Oregon? Turns out that building isn’t a third regular data center, but a deep storage facility, according to Facebook execs on a tour of the Oregon data center. The building, which will potentially be 84,000 square feet, will be...
Illustration: Ellis Hamburger Apple’s invasion of television may not be the revolution everyone dreams of, but that doesn’t mean it’s not going to introduce some revolutionary new features. Jessica Vascellero and Sam Schechner at the Wall Street Journal have new details on Apple’s vision for the television market. Sadly for many people, Apple’s still...
The report that we commented on yesterday, about Apple’s vision for a set-top box that took the place of your cable box, has been expanded on with a new article today in the Wall Street Journal. Additional details include that Apple wants it to include cloud-based DVR functionality and that its interface will resemble...
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Twitter just announced a bunch of changes to the systems developers depend on to create apps based on the real-time information service. There’s a lot of detailed changes to the API, or application programming interface. But the big picture is summed up in one chart: Twitter If you’re in the upper-right quadrant, you’re probably...
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Twitter has today announced user caps for third-party Twitter clients, effectively limiting the maximum number of users any outside client can ever have. It is also changing the rate on its API per end-point, meaning that most individual clients will be allowed 60 calls per hour, per-endpoint, instead of 350 calls per hour for multiple...
After the market closed today, MacRumors noted that Apple’s stock hit an all-time closing high. When we read the story, we practically did a spit take. We barely noticed that Apple’s stock has been on a big run after its disappointing earnings report. Investors are getting geared up for the new iPhone and the...