Episode 7 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Brad Williams (@williamsba), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), and Kevin Yank (@sentience) with special guest Sarah Milstein (@SarahM).
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SitePoint Podcast #7: Let’s Get Twitter Out of Our System(MP3, 29.3MB)
Episode Summary
Here are the topics covered in this episode:
Google Axes a Number of Services
- Google Axes Dodgeball, Jaiku, Video and More (TechCrunch)
- Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor (Google)
Lycos Shuts Down Mail, Tripod
IE8 RC Will Be Out By the End of January
- Browser Showdown At The Churchill Club; IE 8 Release Candidate Coming This Month (TechCrunch)
- Responding to Change: Updated Getter/Setter Syntax in IE8 RC 1 (IEBlog)
Whitehouse.gov Relaunches with Cutting Edge Design
- change.gov Becomes whitehouse.gov (O’Reilly Radar)
- CSS Sprites on whitehouse.gov (Dave Shea)
Listener Feedback from Karn (WebKarnage)
Main Show Topic: Twitter
- Twitter catches up to Digg (Hitwise)
- Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model (ReadWriteWeb)
- Sarah’s Report: Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution: Communication, Connections, and Immediacy—140 Characters at a Time (O’Reilly)
- Sarah’s Webcast: Advanced Twitter for Business: Conversation, Community, and Profit—140 Characters at a Time (O’Reilly)
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Kevin Yank is an accomplished web developer, speaker, trainer and author of Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL and Co-Author of Simply JavaScript and Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! Kevin loves to share his wealth of knowledge and it didn't stop at books, he's also the course instructor to 3 online courses in web development. Currently Kevin is the Director of Front End Engineering at Culture Amp.