Apple’s new push notification service API

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/07/31/apple-hands-out-push-notification-service-api-to-developers-background-apps-ftw/

This should open up interesting transaction model for application developers. But this is a two-edged sword, cuts both ways. On one end applications can provide more real time information , to the point notifications which can serve like a virtual assistant to iPhone users. On the other end if not used right this can potentially be a spam/annoyance.

I’m sure API will mandate developers to provides user options to decide if device owners want application developers to push notifications or not. Depending on how important the app is users can drive the destiny of this interesting feature.

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July 31, 2008 | Filed Under Business, Communication/Technology, Daily-Life | Leave a Comment

AOL Radio is one of the best apps on iPhone appstore

Truley satisfies the basic need of listening to diversed music from around the world. The best part is surprise element of discovering new music. Sometimes “surprise me!” is better than “I’m looking for…” Sent from my iPhone

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July 24, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment

How to avoid SSL verification on Ruby SOAP calls

Problem

You will get following error when you are making SOAP calls to external web service using ruby's SOAP library

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed

code might look something like this

driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new("https://<your soap end point>", "<soap URN>")

driver.add_method('<method>',"name", "password")

…..

Solution

Just add following line to your code (right before you make a call to end point )

driver.options["protocol.http.ssl_config.verify_mode"] = nil

Above line turns off the SSL verification while making soap calls.

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July 22, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment

Sprint Samsung Instinct vs LG Vu vs iPhone - Long Version

Touch screen smartphone war is on. Check it out. 3 latest and best smartphones side by side. He said "iPhone is a winner" but iPhone has its own issues.

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July 18, 2008 | Filed Under Daily-Life | Leave a Comment

Supercharge your tweets with FatBird ; Its on Steroids.

This post is been in sitting a queue for a while and today I get a time to write about it. As most of us know Twitter is the new way of looking at the news. Well I should say it is new age media now. There is certainly a media shift happened in last few months around twitter. We get to see breaking news on Twitter before A-listers of the media.

Lot of mainstream bloggers using twitter more often than ever. Even though there was quite bit of apprehension about whether twitter can go mainstream or ready to go mainstream, according to me gap between mainstream media and twitter media is very perceptional and your attention span. Big difference between these two is that news on twitter comes in packet of 140 characters and you have running stream of updates to read the whole story. Having said that every tweet (one status update on Twitter) becomes very important for followers (in a traditional media its readers) to consume when someone updates his/her status (traditionally news publisher).

There are tons of twitter apps doing interesting things and adding value to this whole twitter ecosystem. Here at MesageDance we been a fan of Twitter from day one and had twitter status udpate posting via email for few months along with every message users sends (blog post, YouTube video, Digg share, Google Reader share etc) to MessageDance can be updated to user’s Twitter timeline.

With FatBird, we released a new feature called “MyTweets“. With this feature MessageDance becomes the full blown client to Twitter which can send, receive your tweets on demand along with other goodies. Check it out..

Bling Your Tweets

MyTweets in a true sense supercharges your tweets. User’s 140 characters gets more powerful as it exposes important assets of each tweet.

TinyURL expansion : instead of tinyurl , It expands the url and shows the real url to the user
If the url is YouTube video url it shows YouTube video right below user’s tweet.
If the url is Flickr url it shows Flickr photo right below user’s tweet.
If the url is MP3 it shows audio player inline right below the tweet.
User can Reply or Retweet right there from each tweet.

It feels good to save user some time and few clicks on the WWW.

Set your tweets free with TweetShare.

Having done all the blinging to tweets, How about setting your tweets free to go wherever they want to go?.

TweetShare feature

Lets users send the anyone’s last 10 tweets (whom user is following) to their blog, friends, facebook etc.
Lets users send conversational tweets to user’s social destinations.

This opens up the door for tweet blogging and link love between blogger and urls in the tweet.

FatBird is your tweets on steroids. Let it fly to places.

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July 11, 2008 | Filed Under Communication/Technology, Fun Stuff, MessageDance | Leave a Comment