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Sole
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We talking big issues right?

james00
james00

Why do they all have European headgear? 

Anderson
Anderson

You dont wanna debate with venom cos hes a daft faggot... But giggs should debate with piers morgan on live tv...? Come on bro. Even someone who could put across a good argument against pier

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Jesus bumbaclart!!!!

Posting up my video without permission. This is a serious offense. And then trying to defame my image and label me as industry hater? This could cost a man his life unless you are P. Brisco..

This isn't on.

I am contacting my solicitor and am going to go into witness protection. I got kids to look after man.

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To be honest, yeah it's good promo... Made like 500 hits on that riddim today not gonna lie..

But in all honesty.. Industry Hater is not me. I hardly have time to even post much on here cause I am raising my kids and trying to do Uni.

Love it how I am always blamed for everything. I don't even know all the people this Industry hater has pointed out. Yeah I know the typical heads like Wiley, Roll deep, bashy, Bruza etc. but I never really got too deep into grime. I liked the basic stuff Logan pumped out on the RWD CD and Lord of the mics but that's about as deep as it got! Haven't even been to a Grime rave... The only grime riddim ever to come on in the clubs I go is either Forward Riddim or 'Oi'.

I can see the funny side to all this but this Industry Hater has cussed off bare heads and I ain't getting my head buss for no one else. Straight up.

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You guys watch the Chirp Conference? Some big upgrades coming to Twitter soon. All of my annoyances are gone bar one.

http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/04/twitter-launching-annotation-feature-streaming-api.ars

Twitter launching annotation feature, streaming API By Ryan Paul | Last updated about 20 hours ago

Twitter, the popular micro-messaging service, is preparing to launch several new features for end users and third-party application developers. Twitter is moving into new territory with a richer real-time streaming API and an annotation system that will make it possible for developers to piggy-back additional data on top of tweets.

These new features were announced at Chirp, an official Twitter developer conference that took place last week. Although the new features will create some intriguing opportunities for third-party developers, the news of the coming enhancements was partly overshadowed by Twitter's somewhat controversial entry into the client application market—a play that pits Twitter against its own third-party developer ecosystem.

Shortly before the conference, Twitter acquired Atebits, the company behind the popular Tweetie client for Mac OS X and the iPhone. Twitter also helped RIM develop an official native client application for Blackberry devices. Additional news that has emerged since the start of Chirp suggests that Twitter will also be launching its own URL shortening service, potentially elbowing out its former partner Bit.ly. These moves were preceded by a statement from a prominent investor who warned third-party developers that they wouldn't be able to build sustainable businesses by merely "filling holes" in the service.

Although some third-party application developers are deeply frustrated with the sudden change in Twitter's role within the ecosystem, the move was hardly unexpected and is arguably not as hostile as the critics contend. It's worth noting that other popular social network operators, such as Facebook, also build their own dedicated client applications. That hasn't stopped companies from building profitable business on and around Facebook.

Twitter's recent actions will likely cause the market for stand-alone third-party client applications to deflate—and it might also have a short-term chilling effect on investments in third-party Twitter-related businesses—but it will not kill the Twitter platform or broadly deter third-party involvement. There are still a lot of good business opportunities on Twitter for companies that can build strong niche applications. A frequently-cited example is Stocktwits, which allows users to track investment info.

Annotations

The new features that were announced at Chirp open the door for third-party developers to use the service in new ways. The most significant enhancement is the new annotation feature, which will allow third-party software to embed arbitrary metadata in tweets. The feature has not yet been rolled out, but Twitter developer Marcel Molina published a detailed explanation of how it will work in a message posted to the Twitter API announcements list.

Each individual annotation will be structured as a triple, consisting of a namespace, a key, and a value. When the feature is launched, the total combined size of the annotations will be limited to 512 bytes. Twitter says that it intends to eventually expand the capacity to 2 kilobytes. The annotations can be used for practically anything and will not be limited by Twitter in any way aside from the total size. Some potential uses include transmitting extended message text, sharing vCards, conducting polls, and embedding full-length links.

Client applications could be programmed to display the annotations in specific ways to make the Twitter stream more interactive. For example, an annotation that describes a question with several possible answers could be displayed as a poll with radio buttons that invites the user to vote. When the user selects a response, the client application could send a reply with the user's choice embedded as an annotation.

Although the underlying concept of Twitter annotations is very nifty, it will pose a few challenges to third-party developers. The biggest issue is interoperability. In order to be truly useful, annotations that are not application-specific will have to be supported by multiple client implementations. That means that there will have to be a process for building consensus and devising standards.

Twitter says that such an effort will be left as an exercise to the community. The company doesn't seem to be interested in defining any standard annotation keys or namespaces. It may take a while for standard annotations to emerge, but it's very likely that it will happen—especially for important universal use cases such as extended-length messages.

Molina says that the annotations will eventually be exposed through Twitter search and other similar mechanisms, making it possible to filter tweets based on the annotations. That could make it considerably easier to programmatically analyze the contents of the firehose and harvest useful information from the Twitter stream.

Real-time streaming

Twitter currently has a limited streaming mechanism that allows third-party developers to consume the contents of Twitter in real-time. The full public stream, which is called the Twitter firehose, is only available to certain partners. Regular developers can access limited streams, called the spritzer, that provides a sampling of the total public stream contents.

Although these real-time streams are useful for statistical analysis and other similar purposes, they aren't really intended to support conventional desktop Twitter client applications. Fortunately, Twitter is planning to roll out a new set of user streams that will finally make it possible to track the incoming messages in an individual user's timeline in real-time.

The transition to a full streaming-based API could significantly change the way that Twitter clients are made, making the service operate more like instant messaging and practically eliminating rate-limiting. The streaming API will use JSON-encoded data and will expose various events in addition to user messages. For example, it will be able to tell an application when a user gets a new follower.

The streaming API was launched in private beta during Chirp, but it will soon be rolled out to the broader user base. Twitter warns that developers should still continue to support the REST API so that they can use it as a fallback when the live stream breaks or exceeds capacity.

The new features will bring a lot of value to the Twitter platform, but they could also profoundly change its underlying nature. Support for real-time streaming will make it more like a global IRC channel, and the new annotation feature could jeopardize Twitter's signature concision and simplicity. Despite the risks, the new features are evidence of Twitter's growing maturity and signify its growing importance as a communication medium.

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This real time streaming feature is going to be mad. I'd start using Twitter like BBM but I don't want to fill up everyones timelines with my chatter.

thing is BBM is based on a "ping" sorta thing innit? same equivalent as push email - so a signal gets sent to your BB telling it to download the email/message/whatever

Twitter wouldn't have that, it'd be based on intervals of checking for updates. The app would have to stay on with short checking intervals = battery would get drained.

Or so I'd assume

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This real time streaming feature is going to be mad. I'd start using Twitter like BBM but I don't want to fill up everyones timelines with my chatter.

thing is BBM is based on a "ping" sorta thing innit? same equivalent as push email - so a signal gets sent to your BB telling it to download the email/message/whatever

Twitter wouldn't have that, it'd be based on intervals of checking for updates. The app would have to stay on with short checking intervals = battery would get drained.

Or so I'd assume

Yeah you understood it correctly, the whole thing is based on Pull as opposed to Push (except for the public stream and search).

"Although these real-time streams are useful for statistical analysis and other similar purposes, they aren't really intended to support conventional desktop Twitter client applications. Fortunately, Twitter is planning to roll out a new set of user streams that will finally make it possible to track the incoming messages in an individual user's timeline in real-time."

I'm assuming this means they're changing the way this works so that tweets can be instant. They're still keeping the old method though, just incase the new one don't work at times.

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