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This is pretty much exactly what OAuth does - enables the user to authorize a web service to access another one on their behalf, with per-app, per-user constraints.

Thanks. I have got better at titles over the last 10 years, true. Now I'd call it something like 'Turing: the movie you'll never see'

The use as a menu button dates back at least to the Sidekick II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SidekickII.jpg (though that has one long and 2 short lines).

What the author misses is that with colour LCD displays you can do sub-pixel anti-aliasing with the 3 RGB sub-pixels, if you start from a vector, which is why HTML type looks bette…

I contacted the curator at the Lincoln Museum by email. His response: This is entirely a hoax. Clever, too. We have an official stastement to that effect due within the hour. -Jame…

I contacted the curator at the Lincoln Museum by email. His reponse: This is entirely a hoax. Clever, too. We have an official stastement to that effect due within the hour. -James…

The orignal seems to be down now. Note that there are many ways to name the bits you parse a URL into: http://tantek.com/2011/238/b1/many-ways-slice-url-name-piece...

New app "Nerds Around Me" lets you stalk via Google+ checkins

Relying on RSS feeds is tricky, as many of them are partial extracts, summaries, or just plain wrong (eg archival standalone pages linking to the current front page, stale feeds, l…

According to MG Siegler, Chrome is in the bizdev-required proprietary 'with Google' part of Android, not the Open Source part. http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-and…

the old social search that actually crawled the web used the information from the Social Graph API - see what it has for you here: http://www.google.com/s2/search/social Looks like…

Chris Dodd's sanctimonious bluster translated back into English: http://j.mp/MPAAbluster

A response to 'The Social Graph is Neither, defending our hubris in writing social graph standards, even if they are imperfect.

Is Kragen making an elaborate joke about duck typing here? Penguins don’t implement the “fly” method that can be found in birds. And you don’t go around causing things to fly witho…

Fair point; I think a lot of the US carrier customisations have been detrimental. What I was getting at in the original post was that we're going to see a lot of things running And…

If you want an HTML equivalent for RSS, there's hAtom: http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom

Being able to swap out the phone dialer with a SIP client means my Droid can make and receive calls when I'm on Wifi in Europe, where it's CDMA network doesn't exist.

Alex's fears remind me of 'real programmers' reactiosn to the Web when it came out. The iPad is the Web made physical. http://epeus.blogspot.com/2010/01/ipad-is-web-made-physical..…

The first iPod had the wheel, but it physically rotated. It did have the piezo clicker too though.