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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. TechChuck » Twitter - Technology stories from all around the web! Herebeforeoprah.com Asks The Important Question April 18, 2009 at 9:44 pm It's not yet clear exactly what effect Oprah had on Twitter by featuring the service (and its first million-follower user, Ashton Kutcher) on her show on Friday. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone tells me he's going to try and get some numbers as to just how many people signed up thanks to Oprah, sometime next week. But, Twitter Search already reveals that it's a massive amount. Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 Oprah, Ashton Kutcher mark Twitter 'turning point' Ashton Kutcher and Evan Williams Talk Twitter With Oprah Security Expert Suggests Twitter Focus on Output Escaping not Input Filtering April 18, 2009 at 8:38 pm Twitter's status blog this morning announced that Twitter has addressed the most recent variant of the Mikeyy worm but recommends that you still avoid viewing the profiles of users posting "uncharacteristic or otherwise suspicious tweets." It shouldn't be this hard, Peter Soderling, founder of Stratus Security told ReadWriteWeb yesterday. "It appears Twitter is solving the problem by focusing on the input filtering, but a simpler and more effective solution would have been to focus on output escaping; encoding the script tags so they could not execute in any victim's browser." Herebeforeoprah.com Asks The Important Question America's Nerdiest Spend The Weekend Outside, Bring Their Laptops New Twitter App Helps with Job Search America's Nerdiest Spend The Weekend Outside, Bring Their Laptops April 18, 2009 at 4:30 pm "Foo Camp," a celebration of geekiness held at the O'Reilly headquarters in Sebastopol, Calif. is going on this weekend. That means that the 150 or so nerdiest people we can imagine are camping on a corporate lawn, discussing stuff like "social networking, the social graph, and technologies for data portability." Attendees include New York Tech Meetup head Nate Westheimer, Facebook rising star Dave Morin, AOL's Edwin Aoki, and ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick. Twitter Takes On Facebook Connect, Releasing "Sign In With Twitter" Another Contender Emerges: Posterous Takes On TwitPic With New API It's a Socialthing: AOL's Plan To Take On Facebook Connect With Lifestreaming and Chat New Twitter App Helps with Job Search April 18, 2009 at 2:40 pm The social media phenomenon that is Twitter continues to attract third-party developers with the London-based WorkDigital developing TwitterJobSearch, a job search engine for the microblogging service now available online (in beta, of course). Herebeforeoprah.com Asks The Important Question Security Expert Suggests Twitter Focus on Output Escaping not Input Filtering America's Nerdiest Spend The Weekend Outside, Bring Their Laptops Facebook Connect vs. Sign in with Twitter: Fight! April 18, 2009 at 1:19 pm TwitterTwitter reviews has quietly given some developers access to a new feature, Sign in with Twitter, which uses Twitter's new OAuth technology to allow people to log into and access 3rd party websites using their Twitter accounts. Sound familiar? On the surface, this has striking similarities to Facebook Connect, the FacebookFacebook reviews version that allows users to access 3rd party websites using a Facebook account, as well as import their Facebook information and friends. So how does Sign in with Twitter work, and how does it compare to Facebook Connect? Security Expert Suggests Twitter Focus on Output Escaping not Input Filtering Twitter Takes On Facebook Connect, Releasing "Sign In With Twitter" A Better Calling Card: Twitter Challenges Facebook Connect Twitter Takes On Facebook Connect, Releasing "Sign In With Twitter" April 18, 2009 at 8:52 am Twitter released "Sign in with Twitter" yesterday. Like Facebook's authentication service, Facebook Connect, it will allow Web users to sign into participating third-party sites with their Twitter IDs. It's got the developer types all giddy. ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatric writes, "It seems quite similar to Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect in a number of ways. It may be more exciting though, because Twitter is a fundamentally different beast." America's Nerdiest Spend The Weekend Outside, Bring Their Laptops A Better Calling Card: Twitter Challenges Facebook Connect Ashton Will Hit One Million Fans on Facebook Before Twitter   This email was sent to arildinho13@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.