It’s been coming for a while, and Twitter have now killed off standard authentication, moving to the OAuth standard. Which is pretty much “ho hum” worthy for most Twitter users. It only becomes a concern if you are an admin of a website with Twitter integration, or an app developer, but most would be well informed of the changes, and would have accommodated them.
Fortunately, developers have known about our transition to OAuth since last December, so they’ve had time to update their apps. And many apps, including Echofon, TweetDeck, Twitterrific, Seesmic, and Twitter for Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry, are already using OAuth. We appreciate the work and time that developers have invested in this update in order to keep you safe.
Everyone knew full well that this change was coming, but today, the first day of Spring/Autumn, depending on which hemisphere you are in, if you are using Twitter incorporated in the Sense UI on a HTC Device, whether Windows Mobile or Android, it’s not working!
In Froyo [Android 2.2], the latest release of the OS, not officially released on many devices other than the Nexus One and Desire, this renders HTC Peep, and the Friend Stream application, unable to update Twitter feeds at all.
From what we’re hearing it seems that the new Twitter authentication system (OAuth) has stopped Peep and Friendstream from logging in. People seem to be getting “Incorrect username / password” with the timeline stopping, login attempts hanging or a message stating “Address forbidden from accessing Twitter server” via CoolSmartPhone
So it’s probably time to look at some alternatives, for WinMo there’s MoTweets, PockeTwit and Twikini, when Peep stopped working for me today, I had to find a good replacement…
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Post written by Peter Murphy on
September 1, 2010
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Look away if you are squeamish,
Cheesy as ever, this is a demo of the latest glass tech, used for mobile devices being abused. All I can say is it’s good. The Samsung Galaxy S bounces in Korea, and probably everywhere else!
Via AndroidCommunity
Post written by Peter Murphy on
August 30, 2010
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Trolling around the Android Market, and looking for good free applications, noticeably you are steered to the highest rated software. That goes for paid software as well, are those ratings credible? or reputable though. Not to malign the opinions of other users, but is it possible to rig the ratings? Danny Lam over at Mobility Digest today made a good point about marketplace software, which covers all device OS’s, prompted by the approach Microsoft are taking to the Windows Phone 7 marketplace.
It’s a long post but the gist of it is in the concluding paragraph,
The trial option was a great idea, but Microsoft can’t stop there. Do they expect customers to try every app before buying one? I guess they could, but who has the time nowadays? My amazing solution is so simple it will blow your minds, and quite frankly I’m bewildered, as to why no one has thought of it before. Microsoft should add a sorting filter for try/buy ratio. Yes, I know I’m a geek and some people don’t get ratios or whatever, but can you imagine how useful that would be? User reviews and ratings are bias and don’t really tell you much unless you read each review and that’s time consuming. Having someone rate a product is meaningless since each person rates differently. But having a try/buy ratio at our disposal, we can immediately see how many people preferred to buy a product and how many decided to pass it up. In addition I think they should add a filter to weed out apps with fewer than “x” number of buyers so you can limit your search to less risky options.
It makes a lot of sense to rate paid applications, by how often they are purchased. Free apps offer a different kettle of fish, rate them by download? continued use via update stats or, user rating? So what standard is unequivocal, across all platforms at the moment, user rating! If you wanted to look at stats in general, iAppstore has over 150,000, close to 50,000 in the android market. Not gonna find numbers for RIM, Palm or WinMo, that make much difference. A simple, across the board rating system for all applications would be nice, but it’s akin to a fairy tale. As we wait for WP7 to actually launch, it would be nice, altruistic, to think that Danny’s idea would be taken up by MS, as a forward thinking approach to WinPho 7, you can sell more if you tell people what others are buying.
It’s ‘pie in the sky’ thinking, no matter what stats you show people, from what source, it’s all based on most popular/used. Whatever rating system is applied in whatever app store, will dictate the popularity of those apps on each platform. If it works well, people will rate it well, whether paid or free. Popularity is the only key factor, “if people buy it they will come”. So I end raping a popular quote from a well known movie, any sort of stats, from any online application market are, at the moment user/download driven, what makes an app a good app? If it meets your needs.
Post written by Peter Murphy on
August 30, 2010
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I’ve always been a bit of a browser hound, and I’ve looked at many for WinMo. Opera Mini though was a favourite, after installing it today though, I’m not too sure it beats the native browser in Froyo.
Opera Mini is on the left, and the webkit browser included in Android 2.2 is on the right. It’s obvious that Opera Mini doesn’t perform as well as the native Android browser, for a start, flash elements aren’t working. Whilst Opera Mini offers speed/data advantages, and cross platform sync, it just doesn’t render sites consistently.
Post written by Peter Murphy on
August 29, 2010
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It’s been coming for a while, and Twitter have now killed off standard authentication, moving to the OAuth standard. Which is pretty much “ho hum” worthy for most Twitter users. It only becomes a concern if you are an admin of a website with Twitter integration, or an app developer, but most would be well informed of the changes, and would have accommodated them.
