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Interesting that the iOS download is .5mb, which is the lowest I ever remember seeing. And probably 50x the size of the original version.

I'll be using this in the morning to easily log into all my gmail accounts from work. When I leave work I have a logoff script that clears all my cookies. This logs me into all gmail accounts that I am logged into on my phone without having to log in several times.

Facebook API had so many breaking changes happening all the time that they decided, as a "benefit" to developers, that they would stack them all up to occur on the first of each month. This is in the name of BS called "operation developer love". And this is only for the breaking changes that get announced. The much more common scenario that ComputerGuru mentions is where stuff gets broken, acknowledged as a bug Facebook, and then never fixed. If you read the stats they publish in their blog posts, 2-3x the number of bugs get accepted than the number that get fixed, EVERY SINGLE week.

And its already gone. Nobody saw that coming.

I've seen a study that shows this isn't true, especially when prompting for offline_acces. Wish I could find the link. Also, Facebook's app analytics shows you the break down of how often permissions are rejected and from what I've seen with high usage, the permissions prompted did matter. I would disagree that you should just ask for ones you might not need, especially since you can always prompt the user later for more if needed.

Facebook API does have a method where you can revoke the permission automatically (ie when you no longer need it). And also if you don't request offline_access permission, the token is only valid for an hour or two. But yes, Facebook doesn't make this very clear to the user.

Developers can do this but for whatever reason they seems to always ask for them all up front.

Wasn't this LinkedIn instead?

Won't be surprised either when this page is the #1 search result for Firefox on bing.com

It's clearly been enough for his family, he's been retires for several years now.

https://twitter.com/ossjobs what a jerk

The benefit is SO gets more traffic and users. Facebook benefits by off loading the management of their messy forums and rely on free crowd sourced moderation.

That headline also applies to installing any Android application.

So Dropbox security is based on a code obfuscator? And was it an intern that let us log into any dropbox account with any password? Kidding, but seriously, they need to get more interns because one of the most requested feature for years on their site is remote wipe (https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/35/remote-destroy-purge-opti...) and they never implement it. Granted its not an entirely reliable method but its better than not offering it.

"Whats attracted many of them is the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of special interest truck stops called websites". Oh Kurt Loder.

Not sure I see the point of the Email Protection app. If you care for a product like this, you would enable 2 step verification and then there is significantly less chance of this being needed.

Next weeks headline: "Anonymous hacks Hover.com, user database of emails and plain text passwords posted to torrent."

Impossible to avoid? Not if they give an easy option to disable it which nearly every person took advantage of with Google Buzz. And people certainly will if Google enables people to connect to their accounts to Twitter, FB, LinkedIn and it is just another site filled with duplicate content like Buzz was.

It will be interesting to see if Facebook clones every single Google+ feature before Google+ is out of invite-only status. I'm guessing next will be a basic rich text status editor, to go along with the already announced video conferencing.

Just because someone does/threatens the things you have listed does not mean they have mental problems.

Ingredients is great but combined with nutritional info (calories, fat, etc) it would be awesome.

They also mass email spammed their entire database to let people know about it.

And aren't there such things as female ninjas?

Yay for more spa and salon ad's shoved down my throat.

Odd you would completely block all IE users (not just IE6) instead of letting them see a site that may have some issues but still mostly works.

Azure can make sense pricing wise for startups that have been accepted into their Bizspark program (which doesn't take much). Bizspark gives basically a single web server and database free and you can easily scale from there if you are willing to pay.

On the downside, deploying to Azure is a bit of a pain and its 15-20 minutes per deployment gets old, especially early on when you are deploying more often.

From the apps I've worked on, iOS is a much more profitable platform and thus gets the majority of the focus and the initial app releases. Then apps get ported to Android (where they get heavily pirated and generate a fraction of the sales - regardless if time is spent making the app as good or better than its iOS counterpart.)

Back story: http://www.azdisruptors.com/blog/2011/3/19/have-jawa-and-jas...

How does this affect MMS messages? The one annoying thing about google voice since I switched to completely using it is that I don't receive MMS messages and people that send them to me don't know that I didn't get it.

Apple and iOS developers will probably win with this.