81: Channels of Control

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest round of Twitter API changes that further marginalize third-party "traditional" Twitter client applications, with the inevitable follow up about App.Net, the nascent Twitter-like service that takes money directly from its users, rather than selling access to its users to advertisers.

Links for this episode:

• Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API - dev.twitter.com
  
• Display Guidelines - dev.twitter.com
  
• Delivering a consistent Twitter experience - dev.twitter.com
  
• Twitter hands down new, strict rules for third-party developers - Macworld
  
• The Princess Bride (1987) - Memorable quotes
  
• siracusa on App.net
  
• dan on App.net
  
• jkottke's "Twitter is Vader" tweet
  

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