Steve Is Pissed Off, But Flurry Is Updating The Service to Follow Apple’s Rules

Remember when Apple changed section 3.3.9 of their Dev Agreement back in April? Turns out they did it because Steve was pissed off at Flurry, a well known analytics firm which, according to Steve, was collecting user data such as geolocation and device information without actual user permission. That’s how the first specs about Apple’s iPad started to go out, and that’s why Steve decided to change the agreement.

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A Beautiful Mod for Itsy

Back in January I reviewed Itsy, a new and promising Twitter client for Mac which, in a matter of a few months, has managed to gain a quite big amount of fans and users. I have to say I haven’t used the app since then, but I have some good friends who are very happy with it. I guess it just fits their needs.

Na Wong, well known designer in the Mac and iPhone community, has released a mod for Itsy, which is absolutely stunning. Just check out the video embedded after the break to see by yourself, then go download it here and follow the instructions to apply it.

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Our Thoughts on the Google Wave Liveblog Experiment

If you were following us last night, firstly we want to thank you for your much needed input and for being quality followers to our site. We think it’s fantastic that people would actually stick around and want to listen to us. And last night was a first, because we decided to try Google Wave as a live blogging platform instead of Cover it Live. I think it worked pretty well, and it was a good event where we could try ideas and get feedback. We’ve gotten lots of compliments, lots of complaints, but all feedback is positive in this instance; we really want to learn where we can improve our live blogging experience. Federico will be chiming in at the end of this post with his thoughts of course, but I’d like to kick things off with Google Wave, what’s good about it, what we did poorly plus what could improve, and where we go from here.

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