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MacBook Air Contest: Tell Us Your Top Three Features for Virtualization Solutions
Aug 23rd
What are your top 3 features when considering virtualization solutions, and why?
That’s the question for our latest ReadWriteWeb Cloud contest to win a MacBook Air. The best comment on this post wins. You’ll need a Disqus account to participate, and rules can be found here.
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We know that ReadWriteWeb Cloud readers have been tackling virtualization projects for years, so we’re keen to know what kinds of features you’re focusing on – and why. Let us know the three most important virtualization features for your workplace, and you just might be posting your next comment using a brand-new MacBook Air!
To win, you need to comment by August 31. Erica Brescia, CEO of BitRock, will be helping us judge the entries this time around and we’ll announce the winner shortly after August 31st. We’re looking forward to your responses!
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Local Search: Who Should Tell You Where To Eat Tonight?
Jun 17th
There is much discussion about the role of traditional search engines like Yahoo and Google when it comes to local search. Traditional web search was built and optimized to value the popularity of a page rather than the popularity of a place. …
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What Can an App Do With Your Twitter Account? New Login Screen Will (Sort of) Tell You
Apr 28th
Twitter has taken to redesigning the OAuth screen – the screen you see whenever you decide to login to an application using your Twitter account – in an attempt to better show what you are agreeing to when you hit the "Allow," err, "Authorize app" button.
Twitter developer advocate Matt Harris announced on the developer Google group this afternoon that they were working on refreshing the screen to offer "better clarity about what an application can see and do with an account." Though it might be better than before, it’s still missing one key thing – the fact that the app can access your DMs.
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If you’ve ever wondered what you’re signing up for when you click that button – whatever it will be called in the end – it’s now made a bit more explicit. As you can see from the image, giving an application access to your Twitter account allows that app to read tweets from your timeline, see who you follow, follow accounts, update your profile and post tweets.
Twitter developer Orian Marx points out, however, that a few key permissions are omitted from this screen: the ability to unfollow users and, more importantly, access their private DMs.
"Obviously it’s been to everyone’s benefit who has built apps that rely on OAuth up to this point that there has been specific mentioning of access to DMs as this would likely turn off a lot of people from granting access to experimental apps," writes Marx. "The reality is that the OAuth system needs finer-grained controls."
While Facebook allows developers to select what content to request authorization for, with Twitter it’s all or none. By giving a Twitter app access to your account, that includes everything mentioned above – including those DMs that you might have thought were totally private. This isn’t the first we’ve heard of this – GigaOm’s Mathew Ingram pointed out last October that DMs aren’t exactly private, but it seems notable that this fact might not show up on the new login screen. Or maybe they will.
Harris writes on the developer list that "This is a first release of these pages to get a feel for if they are going in the right direction. We tried to select a number of phrases that explain the access that’s being granted to an application but that are also easy to understand. I think there will always be some that don’t make it, but there are others, like the ones you raise, which would help aid transparency more."
Here’s hoping that either users are made explicitly aware that their DMs are not exactly private or that developers are given the granular security permissions necessary to say "No, we don’t want access to that." Or both.
Image via @abraham’s Picassa.
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MacBook Air Contest: Tell Us Your Best Practices for Managing Apps on a Virtualized Infrastructure
Apr 1st
How do you best manage business-critical applications on a virtualized infrastructure?
That’s the question this month for our MacBook Air contest. Best comment on this post wins. You’ll need a Disqus account to participate. This is the kind of question that I look forward to hearing about. So, let’s hear it, all you DevOps folks and cloud management gurus!
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We’ll review the comments and pick a winner at the end of the month. Ray Wang is the co-judge this month. Thanks to Sam Ramji for helping with last month’s contest.
The winners will be announced on the first of May. Last month’s post is a good guide. You can see comments quality we have been getting.
Now, let’s hear it. We look forward to the conversation!
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Oscar 2011 Predictions: Can Search Trends Tell Us Who Will Win?
Feb 26th
It’s that time of year again! The lists are out and the voting has begun.
No, I’m not talking about the Academy, I’m talking about the search engines. For the past few years, speculation about Oscar winners and search trends have grown.
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TechCrunch: Worried What Your SEO Guys Are Up To? BrightEdge Will Tell You – NewsFactor Network
Feb 18th
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TechCrunch: Worried What Your SEO Guys Are Up To? BrightEdge Will Tell You
NewsFactor Network AT&T, Siemens and others are buying SEO links on Forbes and get busted. Employees of these brands may or may not have known exactly what was going on. But I'm guessing more than a few execs were unpleasantly surprised by the news. … |
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Worried What Your SEO Guys Are Up To? BrightEdge Will Tell You – TechCrunch
Feb 17th
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Worried What Your SEO Guys Are Up To? BrightEdge Will Tell You
TechCrunch AT&T, Siemens and others are buying SEO links on Forbes and get busted. Employees of these brands may or may not have known exactly what was going on. But I'm guessing more than a few execs were unpleasantly surprised by the news. … |
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How To Tell If Your SEO Will Get You Banned – The Business Insider
Feb 15th
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How To Tell If Your SEO Will Get You Banned
The Business Insider There's been a lot written about JC Penney's major SEO drama that erupted over the weekend. If you're interested in the Five Ws of all that, you can start … SEO Training for Large Organizations — Executives Matter Five steps to selecting keywords for your business Expert says SEO sub-sector is 'massive now' |
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Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me: “I Search Google. So Does Bing”
Feb 12th
Stephen Colbert & Jimmy Fallon weren’t the only ones having fun with Google’s accusations that Bing was copying Google’s search results. NPR’s “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me” quiz show did a funny send up, as well. The show, which aired on February 5,…
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