Posts tagged with "The Web"

The Dirty Little Google Voice Secret.

Date: October 12, 2009 - 12:42pm (Last updated: October 13, 2009 - 12:18pm)
Author: Mark Trapp

If you use Google Voice, have an iPhone, or are interested in smart phones, you’re probably aware of the ongoing spat between Apple, AT&T, and Google over network neutrality and Google Voice on the iPhone (c.f. Apple’s take, AT&T’s take, and Google’s take). If you’re like me, you don’t really care who’s to blame for why you can’t use Google Voice on your iPhone: they’re probably all at fault.

You may not be able to use a shiny application for Google Voice on your iPhone, but you can use relatively new or unknown features of AT&T and Google together and against them and wind up saving a nice chunk of change in the process. This is for all phones, not just the iPhone, but if you’re an iPhone user, I’d say it’s not a bad consolation prize. I’m going to talk about two features: Google Voice’s outbound calling and your wireless carrier’s calling circle feature.

OAuth for Dummies.

Date: September 17, 2009 - 12:30pm (Last updated: September 17, 2009 - 8:19pm)
Author: Mark Trapp

One of the projects I've been working on instead of updating this blog has been a set of modules for Drupal that allow FriendFeed users do all sorts of interesting things. While I'm not ready to release the details of those projects, one of the biggest mind-benders I've experienced in my work has been OAuth, a technology FriendFeed uses as its preferred authentication mechanism in the latest version of its API.

Dr. Private Message.

Date: April 15, 2009 - 11:54am (Last updated: April 15, 2009 - 12:06pm)
Author: Mark Trapp

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the web

Today, Alexander Van Elsas had a sort of 95 Thesis/20 Questions amalgam about a host of issues involving the state of the internet today. One set of questions provoked a couple points of discussion from Rob Diana and John Bredehoft:

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