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Bookmarks for Jul 18

Chris Messina — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:59:28 +0000

A daily collection of linky goodness.

Save the Fail Whales Now

The fail whale may be going the way of the Dodo if you don’t retweat the message below.

The fancy pants engineers over at Twitter are “revamping their system to scale”. This cynical move toward business efficiency puts the fail whale species at risk of mass extinction. When Twitter was asked to comment on this, they had nothing to say for themselves. Nothing!

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Tags: fail whale, humor

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Bookmarks for Jul 13

Chris Messina — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:59:23 +0000

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? Découvrons OAuth avec mixin (et django-oauth) » Django, Web Semantique » Journal » Biologeek, l’avis d’un freelance passionné par le web et son évolution.

Good write up (in French) of OAuth.

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Tags: oauth, django

mixin authentication — mixin documentation

mixin provides a standard authentication based on OAuth.

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Tags: mixin, documentation, oauth

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OAuth for the iPhone: Pownce.app

Chris Messina — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:30:51 +0000

If you’re one of the lucky folks that’s been able to upgrade your iPhone (and activate it) to the 2.0 firmware, I encourage you to give the Pownce application a try, if only to see a real world example of OAuth in action (that link will open in iTunes).

Here’s how it goes in pictures:

And the actual flow:

Launch the Pownce app. You’ll be prompted to login in at Pownce.com
Pownce.app launches Pownce.com via an initial OAuth request; here you signin to your Pownce account using your username or password (if Pownce supported OpenID, you could signin with OpenID as well).
Once successfully signed in to your account, you can grant the Pownce iPhone app permission to access your account.
Once you click Okay, which is basically a pownce:// protocol link that will fire up Pownce.app to complete the transaction.

There are three important aspects of this:

First, you’re not entering your username and password into the Pownce application — you’re only entering it into the website. This might not seem like a great distinction, but if a non-Pownce developed iPhone application wanted to access or post to your Pownce account, this flow could be reused, and you’d never need to expose your credentials to that third party app;
Second, it creates room for the adoption of OpenID — or something other single sign-on solution — to be implemented at Pownce later on, since OAuth doesn’t specify how you do authentication.
Third, if the iPhone is lost or stolen, the owner of the phone could visit Pownce.com and disable access to their account via the Pownce iPhone app — and not need to change their password and disrupt all the other services or applications that might already have been granted access.

Personally, as I’ve fired up an increasing number of native apps on the iPhone 2.0 software, I’ve been increasingly frustrated and annoyed at how many of them want my username and password, and how few of them support this kind of delegated authorization flow.

If you consider that there are already a few Twitter-based applications available, and none of them support OAuth (Twitter still has yet to implement OAuth), in order to even test these apps out, you have to give away your credentials over and over again. Worse, you can guarantee that a third-party will destroy your credentials once you’ve handed them over, even if you uninstall the application.

These are a few reasons to consider OAuth for iPhone application development and authorization. Better yet, Jon Crosby’s Objective-C library can even give you a head start!

Hat tip to Colin Devroe for the suggestion. Cross-posted to the OAuth blog.

Bookmarks for Jul 10

Chris Messina — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:59:21 +0000

A daily collection of linky goodness.

Mashing Twitter and Identi.ca: Following the conversation

“Like many, I’ve found the frequent appearance of the Fail Whale discouraging, if not downright frustrating. Not only has Twitter expanded my horizons, it has become an essential tool. Other services just don’t offer the same means to an end.”

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Tags: twitter, fail whale, identi.ca, microblogging

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Bookmarks for Jul 09

Chris Messina — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:59:19 +0000

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Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » announcing whoisi

I’d like to announce the general availability of a project that I’ve been working on in my spare time for the last few months: whoisi.com.

If I had to describe it in one sentence I would describe it as a site that lets you easily keep track of what your friends are doing on the Internet via RSS feeds - but with some twists.

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Tags: lifestream, whoisi, mozilla

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Bookmarks for Jul 08

Chris Messina — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:59:21 +0000

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orkut - oauth

This is a community dedicated for the oauth authentication protocol developers !

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Tags: oauth

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Bookmarks for Jul 07

Chris Messina — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:59:25 +0000

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Web Worker Daily » Archive Design Patterns for Coworking «

“Recently a member of the global coworking mailing list, Joseph Holsten) recently created what’s essentially a recipe book of ‘how to’ guides for those seeking to setup a coworking community, coworking space or simply better operate the communities and spaces they’re already running.”

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Tags: coworking, patterns

Vaga | Ten by Twenty ™

This set of 60, semi-transparent .png icons (16 x 16) ready to use and available for free download.

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Tags: icons, free icons, 16×16

TrackThis: Track FedEx/UPS/USPS/DHL Packages using Twitter (or Email, IM or SMS)

Track Your Packages Over Twitter

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Tags: twitter, ups, tracking, fedex

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Bookmarks for Jul 06

Chris Messina — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:59:26 +0000

A daily collection of linky goodness.

Feed Store :: Fail Whale

“We love Twitter. We even love it when it’s down. Twitter gives you lots of opportunities to love it.

“This shirt will ship mid-July. We’ll notify you via Twitter, unless it’s down. Yeah… just come back here and check.

“…and if you’re looking for the ACTUAL Fail Whale stuff, there’s an Official Fan Club Store. You make enough with your Etsy craft store to buy from both of us.”

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Tags: fail whale, tshirts

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in private beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

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Tags: twitter, adobe air

Technology Review: Who Owns Your Friends?

“The incident brought to a head a debate that had been raging for months behind the scenes at social-networking sites: who controls the data users post on their profiles? Advocates of so-called data portability, including Scoble and Smarr, say people should be able to transfer information easily in and out of any Web services they use. Facebook, on the other hand, says it needs to safeguard the information it stores so that it isn’t misused, and that means keeping tight control over users’ information. At stake is not simply the ease and security with which people move between social-networking sites but control of the currency that gives those sites their value: personal information.”

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Tags: data portability, joseph smarr, oauth, openid

MUSEO :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris

A beautiful, free font.

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Tags: fonts, free font, typography

Diavlo :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris

Diavlo is a free font that contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold Medium, Bold and Black.

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Tags: fonts, free font, typography

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DreamBank - Give Dreams. Not Stuff. [Flickr]

factoryjoe — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:13:03 -0500

factoryjoe posted a photo:

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Bookmarks for Jul 04

Chris Messina — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:59:20 +0000

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Twitter: User Co-Creating or User Co-Opting? - O’Reilly Radar

“Whatever is actually going on at Twitter, allowing your user community to engage in a conversation regarding your product development can be incredibly valuable, and ignoring their behavior can lead you to miss a key new feature. However, if you embrace every use of your service, and avoid every complaint about a feature you don’t support, eventually the conversation will become dysfunctional, and could prove disastrous, undermining your credibility and service.”

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Tags: twitter, hashtags

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Bookmarks for Jul 03

Chris Messina — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:59:21 +0000

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“This’ll be the day that whales fly.”

LOL — a song for the Fail Whale!

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Tags: failwhale, comic, humor

The Fail Whale Fan Club

FailWhale.com is the groupie | PR | Fan Club for one of coolest whales we know… you know… the handsome whale and his birdie entourage who show up occasionally on Twitter to let you know that it’s time to push back from your keyboard and to go take a break. Yup! that one.

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Tags: failwhale, twitter

#fwh - Summize

Search for the Twitter Fail Whale hashtag #fwh.

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Tags: hashtag, fail whale

Twitter / yiyinglu

Creator of FailWhale and so on.

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Tags: yiyinglu, fail whale, designer

Yiying Lu

The SOURCE of the Fail Whale!!

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Tags: yiyinglu

The FAIL SNAIL on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Inspired by the availability of Twitter’s Fail Whale as a T-shirt and Tantek’s “Note to Self” comment ( www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/2631644440/#comment72157… ) I made teh Fail Snail, and he’s coughing up some “goddamn leaky HTML” hex.

I am releasing this as public domain, anyone may use it as their error message or whatever else you want, including Flickr geo tagging it with Twitter’s office address.

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Tags: fail snail, fail whale

sassholes: Museum Piece, Circa 2025

Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art were fascinated to learn that in the year 2008 it was not uncommon for popular Internet services to experience something called “downtime,” often represented by cute avatars that are now considered works of art…

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Tags: twitter, fail whale, museum, art

House Industries - Neutraface

I fucking love Neutraface!

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Tags: neutraface, fonts, typography, type

Twitter, What Are You Doing? Co-Founder Tells All : NPR

“The latter prognosis stems from users who are growing frustrated by repeat sightings of the “fail whale,” the whimsical image Twitter posts when it goes off service. “Why doesn’t Twitter stay up and running for more than a few hours at a time?” writes Twitter user @cscan. “Why isn’t it stable? Is it simply scale, or is something else going on?”"

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Tags: twitter, fail whale, npr

Facebook | FailWhale

Welcome to the official Facebook Page of FailWhale. Get exclusive content and interact with FailWhale right from Facebook. Join Facebook to create your own Page or to start connecting with friends.

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Tags: fail whale, twitter, facebook