Scripting News

First, go read Marshall Kirkpatrick's awesome writeup of bit.ly. I was part of the team that defined the product, the development was done at Betaworks in NY (where I am right now), the team led by John Borthwick, and a bunch of ex-AOLers. Betaworks

Biz Stone posted yesterday about the status of services connected to Twitter via their XMPP gateway. We knew about Summize, suspected that FriendFeed had a deal, and learned that there are two others. We'd like to see Twitter connect their full outp

First, about an hour ago, identi.ca got a major feature, that makes it about a billion percent more useful and a billion percent less shitty. There's now a Replies tab so you can see who has directly commented on something you've twitted (er identic

The tech blogosphere loves to study itself in a herd-like fashion. Back in the old days we used to call this "Watching us watch them watch us watch me watch you watch them watch us watch ourselves watch everything." It's a big house of mirrors. A

There's a new site on the net today: http://tech.newsjunk.com/ It's the counterpart to the political NewsJunk, which is focused on news of the 2008 presidential campaign. The Tech site is focused on technology product news. I created the site beca

It's the day when we say we're not dependent on Great Britain. Of course that part of the holiday long ago lost its meaning. But maybe the whole thing, maybe the concept of America has lost its meaning. Matthew Yglesias, a surprisingly young blogger

This post on the Twitter status blog, gives hope to developers wanting to hook into the full Twitter flow, the same flow that now only Summize has access to. Here's what they said: "We're hopeful that once we've improved the stability of the service

I note that a number of programmers I respect are trying to launch instances of the software behind identi.ca. If they're successful, and if there is a decent way to connect them into a federation (meaning we can communicate even if we're using diff

I was catching up with On The Media earlier this week, and who comes on but my friend and former Berkman colleague Rebecca MacKinnon. I love those kinds of surprises, it lets me catch up, in a multimedia sort of way (it's better than reading an essay

A Twitter clone that's all-the-way open? Did Christmas come early this year? http://identi.ca/doc/faq Marshall has a writeup. I am dave over there. Follow me! First thing --> looking for an API. It supports the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, which I ha