Posts Tagged with ‘tumblr’

Oldgregg from Hacker News reported that a friend found a gaping security hole in Tumblr. He and the friend dutifully reported it to Tumblr, then posted it as either news or a warning to other developers that you should always check, double-check, and re-double-check your app's security.
The hole is a pretty big one. By logging into your own Tumblr account, and then manually appending /admin to your URL, you could access the admin panel for the application. Looking up user [...]

SXSW begins this coming Friday, 7 March, and it will mark the first anniversary of Twitter's explosion on the scene. This past weekend, Twitter was down again, but this time, it was a planned outage to prep the servers for the predicted hammering of their system when SXSW convenes. Of course, you can always continue on Tweeting from the web or your IM client, but an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Twitter since SXSW '07, giving you tons [...]

Twitter. Pownce, Jaiku. Cromple. When Twitter exploded onto the scene, introducing the concept of easy, social micro blogging, it caught on like wildfire. Since then many competitors have emerged with varying degrees of success. MessageDance (currently in private beta) is the latest in a long line of apps that think they can do it better.
Where Twitter limits what you can post and how long your post can be, MessageDance allows room for photos, videos, and longer messages. This reminds [...]

HelloTxt is a service that is very good at what it does, which actually isn't very much at all. But it's useful and easy, which counts for a lot.
Microblogging has exploded in popularity across the web with several different, but very similar, services now available. Although Twitter and Pownce are quite simple to use, anyone who has an account at both (or even at others such as Jaiku) knows how frustrating and time-consuming it can be to post the same [...]