Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
*I'm extremely unsettled. *I'm agreeing with Dewald Pretorius's comments above... Here's an earlier related story: I was the first to market with a drag drop interface for Windows...Yes: back in the stone ages of windows 2.x and windows 3.0 there was no such thing. And soon after HP, Xerox, and

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-10 Thread Raffi Krikorian
Twitter has now displayed a distinctive predatorial stance towards the developer ecosystem. That's incredibly over dramatic, I think. We have, and continue to maintain a platform that will allow for a vibrant ecosystem. We want everybody to succeed.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-09 Thread Nigel Legg
There will always be room for developers on the fringes, and novel ways of using twitter. I would hope that twitter will concentrate on the maintenance and development of the core system, and allow us to add the bells and whistles as required by our own set of users. On 9 April 2010 13:56, Dewald

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
100% On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Nigel Legg nigel.l...@gmail.com wrote: There will always be room for developers on the fringes, and novel ways of using twitter. I would hope that twitter will concentrate on the maintenance and development of the core system, and allow us to add the bells

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-09 Thread Raffi Krikorian
story of my life. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:29 AM, mikawhite mikawh...@me.com wrote: Thanks Raffi, though I doubt your comment will make headlines :) -- To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject. -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Denton
I think once the ad sharing platform is in place, you'll see more clever/recommendation apps around products and services. Being able to create/project a revenue stream, with low barrier to entry (simply tying into the ad platform like AdSense), seems like it would create a business-as-usual

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread znmeb
- Mike Champion mike.champ...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, interesting post form Fred, especially coming a week before Chirp. Are there classes of killer apps that should be built but haven't been? I left a comment on his blog that I would love an app that somehow aggregated the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread Lil Peck
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Mike Champion mike.champ...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be curious to hear what folks think. For me, the appeal of Twitter is its brevity and its simplicity for integration with one's website. I worry that once basic authentication is discontinued, that I will have

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread Raffi Krikorian
i would love to know how we can make oauth simpler for people. should we provide better documentation? examples? libraries? On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Lil Peck lilp...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Mike Champion mike.champ...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be curious to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread Abraham Williams
I think an site explaining OAuth similar to http://business.twitter.com/twitter101/ would go a long way. Abraham On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 15:30, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: i would love to know how we can make oauth simpler for people. should we provide better documentation?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/07/2010 03:07 PM, Lil Peck wrote: [snip] I worry that once basic authentication is discontinued, that I will have to stop using Twitter in my web based apps. Seems to me that oauth is needlessly too complicated and bloated for many Twitter uses. oAuth is easy if you're using one of the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 04/07/2010 03:30 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote: i would love to know how we can make oauth simpler for people. should we provide better documentation? examples? libraries? I can't speak for all of the libraries, but certainly Marc Mims' Net::Twitter makes it totally easy - plug-and-play if

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-07 Thread Lil Peck
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: i would love to know how we can make oauth simpler for people.  should we provide better documentation?  examples?  libraries? Here is the Classic ASP code (by Ariel Saputra) that my site uses: function