Twitter, DataSift, platforms
Twitter, DataSift, platforms: Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s [sic] contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. I read the declarations by industry analysts on Twitter that this was “proof that you can’t build a business on somebody else’s platform” and perhaps DataSift should have known better. […]
Twitter delegates the monetisation strain to its developers
On the Twitter Development Google Group, Twitter announced today that they’ll stop whitelisting. Whitelisting basically lifts an application developer’s limitation of 150 Twitter requests per hour, that mere mortals suffer from Beginning today, Twitter will no longer grant whitelisting requests. We will continue to allow whitelisting privileges for previously approved applications; however any unanswered requests […]
T-Shirt Friday #4 – Gnip
Everyone knows that professional conference goers like myself attend events not to listen to presentations, not to network but to collect schwag. Over the past couple of years I’ve done fairly well collecting tech t-shirts and I decided to create a weekly series critiquing tech companies t-shirt offerings in the expectation that a company with […]
Cloudy Thought: Silos, Data Portability, Glue and Integration
Over the last couple of days in various conversations I have been having about the Cloud some of the issues that I have hearing about are around: Integration with the Enterprise Applications Data Portability Silos of SaaS services. I think “Cloud” Service providers need to find robust solutions to address this space, but I think […]
