Yesterday Twitter got some problems with injected code redirecting users to other sites and also showing pop-up windows. Most of us see Twitter (and other big sites) as trusted sites, but this shows that you need to be careful out there. Continue Reading
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Since Twitter enjoy to make life difficult for developers by forcing them to do more advanced programming we got forced to update our WordPress plugin WP-Status.net. Basically the only change in this version of the plugin is updated support for Twitter (if you haven't noticed they turned off basic authentication in their API just to [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, Social Media, The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
The more I use MyXavier (our own StatusNet server) the less I mis Twitter. I have to say that a StatusNet server is so much more flexible then Twitter since you can follow people on other servers and you don't even have to sign up for an account at the other server. Continue Reading
Posted in Social Media, The World According to Xavier, Xavier Media
If you have an account at our social community MyXavier.com you may already know that during the weekend we upgrade it to version 0.9.3 of the platform StatusNet. You as a user may wonder why you really care about which version MyXavier is using. In fact it's a little bit interesting for you since with [...] Continue Reading
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Have you noticed that the latest mobile phones move and more look like Apples iPhone? Before the iPhone existed not many phones had touch screen and a screen as big as the phone itself. As soon as Apple launched iPhone all that changed pretty much over night and all "smart" phones got bigger screens and [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Ecommerce, Miscellaneous, Reviews, Social Media
Status.net servers like Identi.ca and MyXavier are getting more and more popular since it's possible to follow users on different servers without having to sign up at each individual server. This means that you can have an account at for example Identi.ca and follow another user at MyXavier.com without signing up for another account at [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, CGI & PHP, Social Media, The World According to Xavier, Tutorials, Xavier Media
Did you think you had a secure password for your email for example? Or maybe you think that the password you use for Facebook, Myspace, Twitter or Plurk is uncrackable? Then you need to rethink! Continue Reading
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Will Twitter start charging for their services or not? First Sitepoint published the news that they (Twitter) have plans for charing people to follow premium accounts in Japan, but then Twitter posted a blog post that that's just a misunderstanding…. Continue Reading
Posted in Blogging, Ecommerce, Social Media
On the 12th of September I noticed that John Chow unfollowed our Twitter account @XavierMedia, so I check out his Twitter account to see what was going on. Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Reviews, Social Media, Statistics, The World According to Xavier
I don't know if you have heard of a service called ReTweet.com, but it's a cool service that allows you to see how many times an article, blog post or even just a tweet has been re-tweeted at Twitter. Now the guys behind ReTweet has released a WordPress plugin too Continue Reading
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Twitter is currently under a Denial-of-Service attack according to their status page: Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Social Media
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