01 Sep 10 Breaking : Twitter announces security updates proactively : All 3rd party apps can no longer store password & new T.co URL shortening service
Well, Twitter just sent out an email with significant improvements to their security model – something that Mark at Facebook just doesn’t seem to consider a priority over monetizing the trust of his 500 million Facebook members.
The highlights from the announcements by Twitter (full email details after the break) include:
- There are 250,000 3rd party apps that connect to Twitter
- All 3rd party apps will have to use the OAuth authentication method, and will not be allowed to ask for – or store – the actual Twitter user name or password
- Launches t.co – their very own URL shortening services … will be interesting to see how this plays out with dominating URL shortening services such as bit.ly
I’m impressed by this news… social media is wonderful, but the skeptics who are avoiding it (which includes a vast majority of “normal” non-tech and early adopter folk) should be reassured by this proactive approach by Twitter to making their environment a bit more secure.
Now, if only they could continue to work on the ever present FailWhale-powered site outages… 
Full email received:
Tags: IT Security, micro-blogging, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0
01 Sep 10 RéseauContact offre 7 jours de membre privilège gratis suite au problème de recherche
Le site de rencontre RéseauContact éprouvait des difficultés techniques avec le moteur de recherche interne sur leur site depuis presqu’une semaine entière !
Ils avaient publié des informations tout le long de l’interruption de service qui affectait seulement une partie des fonctionnalités du site – cependant, essentielle car la recherche est évidemment utilisée par la majorité des membres pour trouver des personnes ou des profils qui correspondent à leurs besoins ou intérêts.
Aujourd’hui ils ont réussies à résoudre l’enjeu entourant la recherche et ont annoncé que tous les membres payants – des membres privilèges – ont eu un crédit sous forme de 7 jours d’abonnement additionnels.
Ça, c’est du bon service à la clientèle… et important car l’industrie de rencontres en ligne est hyper compétitive – RéseauContact est un site Canoë qui appartient à Quebecor.
Tags: dating sites, downtime, français, online dating, RéseauContact, sites de rencontres, Web 2.0
21 Aug 10 Touchality finally releases new WinMoSquare Beta 1.5.0 Windows Mobile Foursquare client – many features & … stability !
Touchality has finally released a new beta version of WinMoSquare – the Windows Mobile client for Foursquare.
Updated August 22 to include a video of the new features with screenshots… see below after the break
If you’re not yet familiar with WinMoSquare or Foursquare ; 4SQ is a location based service that allows people to check-in to venues from their mobile devices (Smartphones, Net-books, Laptops, etc.) equipped with a GPS.
The idea is that you check-in to venues (originally restaurants, bars and that sort of thing but now pretty much everything including elevators, highway intersections and who knows what) and see if the venue offers “specials” for regular visitors. The more frequently you visit a venue, the more chances you have of becoming “Mayor” of a venue. Being the Mayor of a Foursquare venue gets you nothing from 4SQ themselves – except for status & recognition on the Foursquare website. A venue manager or owner can, however, decide to promote repeat business to their venue by offering specials to people who check-in and perhaps extra perks for a mayor. In addition, any Foursquare user can leave tips about a venue (try the steak, arrive before midnight, free parking in the back, etc) that other members can see and add as a “to-do” or “done this” item.
Foursquare have native client applications for the Android, iPhone, Blackberry and Palm smartphones. All other mobile devices can connect to the Foursquare Mobile website at m.foursquare.com.
Up until a few months ago, there was *no* client software for users with mobile devices running Windows Mobile…. That changed several months ago when Touchality released a beta version of WinMoSquare – a graphical client to run on WinMo phones … it required Windows Mobile 6.5 and the .NET compact framework (3.5 or higher)…
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Tags: Geolocation, LBS, location based services, MySquare, Windows Mobile, WinMoSquare
