Feathers: decorate your tweets!
My new iPhone app just launched! And with your help we can take it to the Top 25 in the Social Networking category on the App Store.
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Helvetica Neue by any other name...
I love that you can embed Base64-encoded images in CSS and that WebKit understands them.
Here, for example, is a way to add my Open in External App icon to links that you capture from a UIWebView to display in Mobile Safari:
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An iPad mock-up of OmniFocus by the very talented Nicolas Thomsen:
Those of you following my tweets may have seen that I was rather frustrated this week at Twitter's oAuth policy with regard to desktop and mobile applications.
In a nutshell, Twitter requires any new applications that use the Twitter API to use oAuth for authorization if they want to display the source parameter in tweets. The source parameter is the little bit of text and the link to your app that appears at the bottom of tweets (e.g., via Tweetie). It constitutes a very important bit of organic marketing for Twitter apps.
Twitter fixes oAuth for desktop and mobile with xAuth
Twitter's xAuth implementation is a timely and pragmatic solution that adapts oAuth to the needs of mobile and desktop applications. I applaud Twitter for taking the lead with this.