Posts tagged Playground
Search In Pics: Bill, Ted & Rufus At SMX, Google Playground & Bing It On Taxi
Mar 15th
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the Web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Bing It On Taxi: Source: Flickr Google & YouTube Canada Office: Source:…
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Watchitoo Playground: Intuitive, High-Quality Videoconferencing For Small Businesses
Oct 3rd
Wachitoo, the video-conference and collaborative tool, launched Wachitoo Playground today, a simpler version of the service designed for smaller businesses. Playground is clean, bright and intuitive, and blows away other (albeit free) services like Google+ Hangouts and Tinychat.
The Israeli-based video conferencing company has invested heavily in streaming infrastructure, and it shows. Up to 25 people can hang out in the chat at the same time. Screen-sharing and performance of shared YouTube videos are incredibly fast.
“We put a lot of emphasis on quality, because we believe presentation is instrumental when we conduct business,” said Wachitoo CEO Rony Zarom. “Video quality is very important to us,” he added.
Having used Tinychat and Google+ Hangouts to collaborate with coworkers, I was rather taken by the service, especially with the large size of the image. G+ Hangouts can lag. Tinychat frequently freezes, crashes, and locks people out, and its picture quality is terrible. With Playground, the picture captured by my laptop’s built-in webcam has never looked better.
The name Playground is meant to invoke the fun and experimental sides of the collaborative process, Zarom explained. He’s looking for growth in the healthcare and educational sectors. The tool itself is certainly intuitive enough for doctors and patients, teachers and students to figure out without a tutorial – just about anyone, for that matter.
Wachitoo Playground costs $3.80 per user per month, but a free version is available, limited to 11 people onscreen at a time and no screen-sharing capabilities.
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An Unhealthy Trend: Social Media Becoming the Bully’s Playground
Sep 13th
This is an opinion piece, if you don’t agree with these opinions that is cool with me 
I love social media. I think it is a fantastic way to interact and learn, however I am seeing a pattern that is disturbing and unhealthy. When children are growing up the most important part of school [...]
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Google Adds New Toys to OAuth Playground
Mar 30th
Google opened its OAuth 2.0 playground to developers last November with support for Google properties and non-Google APIs with support for OAuth 2.0 draft 10. Since then, the company has added a number of new toys to the OAuth Playground, including support for testing client-side apps, in addition to testing Web-based applications.
In case you missed it the first time around, the OAuth Playground is a Google-sponsored site that allows developers to work with the OAuth 2 protocol.
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Since the release, Google has added support for the client-side flow, which allows developers to test out client applications using the playground. (See also, Facebook’s developer docs on client-side flow.)
They’ve also added support for newer OAuth 2.0 drafts. This gives developers access to drafts up to the March 8th draft (25). Since the Internet does not move at a uniform pace, developers still have access to earlier drafts, as well.
Spending a long time working with an application? The playground now has support for auto-refreshing access tokens – so you don’t have to worry about timeouts.
The playground can be used for any OAuth apps, not just Google’s services. However, if you’re working with applications specific to Google services, you’ll now find support for two parameters (access_type, approval_prompt) that are Google-specific. The playground also has support now for Google’s API discovery service.
Whether you’re working with Google services or just testing applications that need to use OAuth in general, the playground should be an excellent resource.
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Google Opens OAuth Playground for Developers
Nov 11th
Google’s continuing its push for OAuth 2.0 in its Google Web APIs by providing a “playground” for developers to test OAuth interactions.
Basically, Google’s playground is a way for developers to walk through OAuth interactions from start to finish.
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Pick the APIs that you want to access (everything from Google Analytics to YouTube), and then start by going through the full flow. You can even set up custom endpoints to test out non-Google APIs as long as they support OAuth 2.0 draft 10. The Playground will show you the full HTTP requests and responses for each step. If you need to come back later you can generate a link that will reset the interaction to the current state, no doubt very helpful in debugging.
Google also has a forum for people who want to discuss the playground, specifically. What do you think? Is this something you’ll be using?
You might also want to read Justin Smith’s piece on changes to Oauth 2.0 endpoints that are due on November 15th. You’ll see changes to the error responses and more. See the OAuth2-dev Google group for questions on those issues.
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Slide Kicked Out of Google’s Social Playground
Aug 27th
Despite spending $179 million acquiring Slide a year ago, Google has decided to shut down the social apps startup, All Things Digital reported.
Slide founder Max Levchin, who also started PayPal, will be leaving Google. Slide Product H…
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Harvard.edu: An Ivy League pornographic playground – ZDNet (blog)
May 17th
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Harvard.edu: An Ivy League pornographic playground
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Skype Eyes Third-Party Ads: A New Playground For Marketers ?
May 11th
Skype, the chat, voice and video calling platform is looking into meshing third-party ads to its services, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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