Even the Occupy Wall Street event gets its own hackathon

It seems that every tech event these days has some sort of hackathon; which for those people not familiar with the term it means a group of programmers who get together to create all kinds of apps ... continue

Apple’s “In Application Purchasing” patent filing creates a mobile timebomb

Filing patents, and their subsequent granting without any serious investigation, is a daily occurrence it seems in the tech world. Everyone does it and even in case where prior art or even common sense would dictate otherwise companies amass war ... continue

RIM updates developer API for PlayBook and no-one cares

Did you hear that great big *YAWN*? Yup, that was pretty much the general response to the news that RIM has announced the release ov v2.1 of its Blackberry WebWorks SDK meant for developers thinking of creating apps ... continue

Anatomy of a Tweet

I realize that this has been making the rounds but I found it yesterday in a post by Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb and as an ex-developer (including a Windows desktop client for Twitter) I found it fascinating to ... continue

Twitter rate limiting Chirp viewers

Just in case you didn't know it already Twitter is putting on a big developer conference called Chirp. Given our fascination in the tech blogosphere with anything to do with Twitter it's no surprise that sites have sprung up ... continue

Twitter buys Tweetie making line in the sand to developers even bigger

Earlier today the big Twitter news was the fact that the new official Twitter app for the Blackberry had been written by Twitter itself which was contrary to the belief that Blackberry had created it. Then came the ... continue

Apple asserts itself and we’re all so shocked? Get over it.

It is really funny to watch all this gnashing of teeth over Apple's decision to institute a whole new set of guidelines as to what apps are copesetic or not in its App Store. I mean seriously ... continue

Twitter once more playing with the future of developers

One of the constants that has been with Twitter since day one has been its hands off approach towards the service as it is presented to the users at the Twitter home page. They have let a ... continue

Apple to developers – piss off and don’t bother us

Poor Apple, it’s just not getting any breaks lately with the fallout around them pulling, or denying, Google Voice related apps for the iPhone. Today’s installment shows us pretty well word for word just ... continue

Over 50% of Firefox users are cheap pricks

We live in an online world where everything is suppose to be free (thanks for that Mr. Anderson) regardless of the number of hours someone has  put into what they are making available via ... continue

Twitter killing developers not so softly

If there is one thing other than celebrities that has spurred the momentous growth of Twitter it is the incredible developer community that has risen up around the service. I have said in the ... continue