Archive for December, 2009

Firefox for Maemo RC1 (and Happy New Year!)

Editor’s note: Today, Mozilla released the Firefox for Maemo Release Candidate. Check out Director of Mobile, Stuart  Parmenter’s blog post reposted below.

To help bring in the new year, Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Firefox for Maemo.   If you’ve already got beta 5 installed on your N900 or N810, you [...]

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Happy New Year!

Another year has gone by, and it’s certainly been an exciting one for the orkut team. In the past 12 months, we’re proud to have:
launched inline photo comments
redesigned our help forum
given you better community controls
built an application for your…

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Happy New Year!

Another year has gone by, and it’s certainly been an exciting one for the orkut team. In the past 12 months, we’re proud to have:
launched inline photo comments
redesigned our help forum
given you better community controls
built an application for your…

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Room to Read in India

When Twitter announced The Fledgling Initiative in October—making and selling wine to benefit an organization called Room to Read, I was thrilled. This past month, my enthusiasm and commitment increased dramatically when I had the chance to visit som…

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WordPress 2.9.1 Release Candidate 1

Thanks to everyone who tested 2.9.1 Beta 1.  We’re following that up with Release Candidate 1.  RC1 contains a few more fixes, bringing the number of fixed tickets up to 23.  If you are already running Beta 1, visit Tools->Upgrade in your blog’s admin to get RC1.  You can also  download the RC1 package and [...]

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LinkedIn for iPhone 3.0: Let’s Get This Party Started

It may be a rainy day here in Silicon Valley, but a little sunshine has just poked through the iTunes App Store.  Earlier this morning, the new LinkedIn for iPhone v3.0 app went live.
Download LinkedIn for iPhone v3.0
On the heels of the opening of our LinkedIn platform, this new version represents the next step in [...]

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LinkedIn for iPhone 3.0: Let’s Get This Party Started

It may be a rainy day here in Silicon Valley, but a little sunshine has just poked through the iTunes App Store.  Earlier this morning, the new LinkedIn for iPhone v3.0 app went live.
Download LinkedIn for iPhone v3.0
On the heels of the opening of our LinkedIn platform, this new version represents the next step in [...]

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Not So Lazy: The Sunday Times

The promise of technology is to help people help themselves. At Twitter, we are united in our belief that software has the ability to augment humanity in productive and meaningful ways. For us, it has been a year during which we realized that no matter…

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Setting Scope

Merry Christmas! One of the things that was discussed at the core commit team meetup was release scope (and scope creep). Now that 2.9 is out and it’s time to start thinking about 3.0, we think it would be appropriate to stop and take a breath before diving in, and make a plan in advance. [...]

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Helping webmasters from user to user

You have to have some kind of super-powers to keep up with all of the issues posted in our Webmaster Help Forum—that’s why we call our Top Contributors the “Bionic Posters.” They’re able to leap through tall questions in a single bound, providing hel…

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