[twitter-dev] Re: Why is Basic Auth still enabled on some sources?

2010-09-14 Thread funkatron
when you discover this kind of thing. In the end, whether that matters is up to Twitter (as an entity, not the individuals who work there, to whom I'm sure it does matter). -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Sep 14, 12:09 pm

[twitter-dev] Why is Basic Auth still enabled on some sources?

2010-09-13 Thread funkatron
Read on this post: http://blog.nelhage.com/2010/09/dear-twitter/ Tested just now: http://gist.github.com/577273 If I pass source=twitterandroid, it appears to work on all API methods. In light of basic auth being disabled, why does this work? -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM

[twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-06-12 Thread funkatron
mobile apps 8) -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Jun 11, 6:56 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Developers, As has been discussed on the list recently, OAuth and Open Source applications

[twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-06-12 Thread funkatron
use the above API. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Jun 12, 4:59 am, Jef Poskanzer jef.poskan...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand why you are suggesting this only for open source programs.  Were you thinking

[twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-06-12 Thread funkatron
than current auth. I can't code some way to sit over the user's shoulder and tell them click this, now click that, now spread your fingers… a bit wider… -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com Some users might screw up the copy

[twitter-dev] Re: Coming soon: a solution for Open Source applications using OAuth with the Twitter API

2010-06-12 Thread funkatron
be good, I think. Typing 4-6 characters is much, much easier than copying and pasting that long string. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Jun 12, 3:57 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: I think you're missing

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Source Stats gets some JSON output love

2010-04-27 Thread funkatron
http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Apr 25, 1:54 am, funkatron funkat...@gmail.com wrote: Some of you may be familiar with my Twitter Source Stats project: http://funkatron.com/tss/ I've recently added the ability to get the ranking data

[twitter-dev] Twitter Source Stats gets some JSON output love

2010-04-24 Thread funkatron
/funkatron/twitter-stats-tracker Hit me up on Twitter if you have q's; I don't check in here a lot. Enjoy! -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com -- Subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk

[twitter-dev] Re: Final Hack Day schedule for Chirp with discount code

2010-04-10 Thread funkatron
I actually would consider buying these tickets, but 5 days notice; that's not so good for non-locals. Thanks for trying to make it affordable to mailing list folks, tho. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Apr 10, 9:18 pm

[twitter-dev] Re: Fred Wilson article on Twitter API

2010-04-09 Thread funkatron
: you don't have a legal contract with Twitter, so don't build a business on it. Good thing no one here did that! Right? -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Apr 9, 5:01 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Raffi

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-09 Thread funkatron
, everybody! -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Apr 9, 10:18 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: It's great for Loren. But, there's a problem, and I hope I'm not the only seeing it. Twitter has just kicked all

[twitter-dev] Re: What happened, happened.

2010-04-09 Thread funkatron
It would be awesome if some of those opportunities were offered to people who aren't able to afford to travel to SF. Of course, a lot of things would be awesome, but I'm not optimistic about them. Alas. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat

[twitter-dev] Re: What happened, happened.

2010-04-09 Thread funkatron
It looks like it will be great if you want to have VCs and pundits talk to you for several hours. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Apr 9, 11:36 pm, Isaiah isa...@me.com wrote: It would be great if Twitter would clarify

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-09 Thread funkatron
you can run your own thing and still interact with both of those services. I'm interested in the idea of complementing StatusNet in a similar fashion on the client side, as a true FOSS tool, extensible via a plugin architecture. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter buying Tweetie

2010-04-09 Thread funkatron
usage. They are the niche apps along the lines you suggest we should be making. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Apr 10, 12:20 am, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: the way that i usually explain twitter.com

[twitter-dev] What Exactly is a Developer Advocate? (was Re: Opt-in beta of Popular Tweets for the Search API now available)

2010-04-04 Thread funkatron
of people will continue to view Twitter as Game-Changing Technology, but it sure is a bummer for me. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron AIM: funka7ron / ICQ: 3922133 / XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Apr 1, 8:53 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Folks

[twitter-dev] Re: Most popular tweets in the search API

2010-03-19 Thread funkatron
So this would change the default behavior of the search API, which is currently to return recent results? If so, I think that's a bad idea. Better to offer the option than to change existing behavior when possible. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133

[twitter-dev] Re: Most popular tweets in the search API

2010-03-19 Thread funkatron
*. Don't change behavior unless it is necessary. Add a new API method, or make recent results the default and keep it that way. If you're advocating for developers, advocate for making us do less work to maintain current functionality, please. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron

[twitter-dev] Re: What is the correct OAuth API endpoint

2010-03-04 Thread funkatron
Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Mar 4, 12:15 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Good point. I'll considering encouraging it by default by presenting it that way. I certainly prefer it over https. A gating issue are design

[twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-19 Thread funkatron
for JavaScript that helps devs build web runtime applications. http://github.com/funkatron/spazcore * Twitter Source Stats, a simple web app that tracks and displays stats about how people are posting to Twitter http://funkatron.com/tss * The feature I'd like added to the API the most would be a social

[twitter-dev] Re: Application Suspended

2010-02-15 Thread funkatron
:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Feb 15, 4:51 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Look, it is self-evident by now that this heavy-handed Gestapo-like action against applications is causing great anxiety in the developer community. We now have two very recent

[twitter-dev] Re: a security problem puzzled me about using oauth in Desktop Client

2010-01-31 Thread funkatron
official response about it, even if it's just hey, we know, and this is just the tradeoff we need to make. Otherwise, I think we're providing feedback as requested on the API in general, and authentication in particular. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ

[twitter-dev] Re: a security problem puzzled me about using oauth in Desktop Client

2010-01-30 Thread funkatron
Not to be a complete pill, but that is a terrible, terrible initial experience for the average desktop app user. There is no way I would or could reasonably ask one of my users to register an app themselves, then fill in obscure hashes. The OAuth secret is simply impossible to use securely with

[twitter-dev] Re: Any iPhone Twitter apps with OAuth login ?

2010-01-12 Thread funkatron
heypic.me is just what I was afraid of. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Dec 6 2009, 3:08 am, Ram group...@cascadesoft.net wrote: As a followup to the mobile OAuth discussions from October (seehttp://groups.google.com

[twitter-dev] Re: Platform announcements from LeWeb

2009-12-29 Thread funkatron
Will this be posted to the dev announcement list as well? I missed this until now because it was not -- only caught it by chance in my friends timeline via ReadWriteWeb. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Dec 28, 12:24

[twitter-dev] Re: Security Best Practices

2009-07-01 Thread funkatron
Might sorta work on webapps, or maybe desktop compiled code (assuming the config is compiled in at build time), but that doesn't help for desktop apps written in interpreted langs, where all source code and configs would be easily viewable (although I could imagine some initial setup stuff where

[twitter-dev] Re: API Changes for June 25, 2009

2009-06-25 Thread funkatron
What's the word on a rate limit increase related to the issue 474 fix? -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Jun 25, 7:18 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Two features and five fixes were deployed today, 2009-06

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-16 Thread funkatron
Indeed, some clearer criteria would be most appreciated. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Jun 16, 12:51 pm, Justyn Howard justyn.how...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Doug - Any additional info to help us know if we comply

[twitter-dev] Re: Search API to require HTTP Referrer and/or User Agent

2009-06-16 Thread funkatron
:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Jun 16, 12:56 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: All we ask is that you include a valid HTTP Referrer and/or a User Agent with each request which is easy to do in almost every language. Both would be helpful but we only

[twitter-dev] Re: json parsing code not workin..urgent plzzz!!!!!

2009-06-08 Thread funkatron
Are you running this from a browser? If so, perhaps a same-origin policy error? You'll want to google it. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com Twitter:@funkatron AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 XMPP:funkat...@gmail.com On Jun 8, 8:01 am, grand_unifier jijodasgu...@gmail.com wrote: $.ajax('http

Re: OAuth Documentation Preview

2009-02-09 Thread funkatron
I still maintain that this works fine for knowledgeable web dev folks (who seem to be the people who get excited about OAuth), but *will* confuse users who don't understand the tech involved, and/or aren't comfortable jumping between apps. In addition, the process becomes even more problematic

Re: OAuth Documentation Preview

2009-02-09 Thread funkatron
, saving those tokens to act for a period of time should be fine. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM, funkatron funkat...@gmail.com wrote: I still maintain that this works fine for knowledgeable web dev folks (who seem to be the people who get excited about OAuth), but *will* confuse users who

Re: How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-05 Thread funkatron
On Feb 5, 10:38 pm, James Deville james.devi...@gmail.com wrote: Flickr doesn't seem to have a problem with the OAuth formula, so why are people thinking twitter will? I'm not sure people have said Twitter would have a problem. I've personally expressed some problems specific to applications

Re: How API will works after OAuth?

2009-02-04 Thread funkatron
Agreed. I do believe that the use of HTTP Basic Auth was key to the quick growth of the 3rd-party app community of Twitter, as the auth scheme is so well-understood and supported. This may or may not be as important at this point business-wise, as I suspect the Twitter userbase is large enough to

Re: verify_credentials response changed

2008-12-11 Thread funkatron
Permanent. See posts on the list about a week ago, and issue in tracker. -- Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com AIM: funka7ron ICQ: 3922133 Skype: funka7ron On Dec 11, 11:20 am, JakeS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It used to be that callinghttp://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.xml would