Archive for May 2009

Reportage Featured on ReadWriteWeb

28 May 2009 / Comments

[...] it’s a fabulous way to get caught up on your friends’ tweet history after you’ve taken some time away from the service [...] In fact, we can’t think of a better way to quickly review all the recent tweets from a select group. Even in clients like TweetDeck which allows for grouping, [...]

Twitpocalypse Featured on The Inquisitr

26 May 2009 / Comments

Nice.

Reportage is Ready for Sale

26 May 2009 / Comments

Reportage is now officially for sale on the App Store. It took less than one week for Apple to approve it and everything went really smooth with the process.

We just pushed a new version of our web site with a demo loop of the application.

Thanks to all our beta testers for their greatly appreciated support!

Introducing Reportage for iPhone

18 May 2009 / Comments

I’ve been hard at work on an iPhone Twitter client for the last couple of months in partnership with Martin Dufort at WhereCloud that aims to do something truly different for the Twitter experience.

We’re both avid Twitter users and we found that none of the available clients for iPhone were really suited for an [...]

The Twitpocalypse

15 May 2009 / Comments

Following the recent warning from Twitter to developers about growing ID numbers, we created a little website to track the progress. Twitter clients using 3rd party libraries may experience some problems.

2,147,483,647 Tweets Soon; Twitter Warns Developers

13 May 2009 / Comments

Twitter has warned 3rd party developers that the “Status ID” (a unique number used to identify tweets) will soon reach the limit of a 32 bits signed integer (i.e., 2,147,483,647) generally used as a default in MySQL, but also unfortunately in 3rd party Twitter libraries for the iPhone.

No New App Submissions Unless They Run on OS 3.0

8 May 2009 / Comments

Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone OS 3.0. If your app submission is not compatible with iPhone OS 3.0, it will not be approved.

I’ve also received this notice from Apple. Even it does make sense I didn’t expect it now; especially when [...]

Twitter Ditches TinyURL for bit.ly

7 May 2009 / Comments

Short URLs are now everywhere and the problem is that these services “own” the original URL; if the site goes down, the link is broken.

As most of these short URL comes from Twitter, they would rather get their own URL shortening service instead of relying on a 3rd party — and Bit.ly would be a [...]

Wordpress Goes Into Micro-blogging with Prologue

7 May 2009 / Comments

Matt Mullenweg has posted an interesting video of how Prologue works. It’s a Wordpress theme that turn your blog into a Twitter-like with real-time conversations.

Even if I don’t think it would threaten Twitter any time soon, it might be a problem for Identi.ca — the Open source Twitter clone.

Control Yourself, the company behind the [...]