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Tag Archives: API
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

Or: Why McAfee’s URL shortener is worse for the internet than all the other URL shorteners. Yesterday, under the pretence of something about making everything secure, McAfee went and launched the beta of its own URL shortner, McAf.ee. Here I am going to explain why this is a terrible idea for numerous reasons.

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Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Today I am extremely happy to announce the public availability of Clustr Desktop. Clustr Desktop has been over a year in the making, and 18 months since its first release under the guise of Huddle Desktop, it has now been rewritten, upgraded, polished and rebranded enough for you all to start making some serious use [...]

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Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Having trouble getting your thoughts into 140 characters? Try getting them into a word. That is the principle behind Wordr, a service I came across recently and pretty much instantly fell for. Yeah yeah, “It’s just another Twitter clone” I hear you cry. And you’d be right, it unashamedly admits this on its homepage. Its [...]

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