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There are a couple of Indian apps[0] trying to replicate Tiktok functionality. Many of them saw a surge in usage after Tiktok got banned. Not sure about the current numbers though.

[0] https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/mitron-c...

The issue there was collection of massive amounts of public data by Facebook. Open data APIs can be used to build nice things, if the data isn't user information.

The difference is that if you choose to go to any URL, you can (not considering device capability and support; flash etc) from any of your devices. And what you pay to go to one website is the same amount that you pay to go to a different website as long as you use the same amount of data. Data rates being different across networks is a different issue.

You can check out MIT App Inventor. It uses scratch. Here's an example of a game: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/ai2/space-invaders.html

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Wow! That far? I feel sad. Kurzweil had me hopeful that I'd be able to use it in next 30 years.

With all due respect, being somewhat of a privacy and security freak (although I use social networks etc.), all I can read while going through the article is a crybaby whining about how it is harder than before to get user data.

The article makes an assumption that the warrants and the snooping is only done in legal and genuine cases, which has been continuously been proved wrong lately. Not to mention all the secret courts, FISA orders etc

I think http://www.reddit.com/r/brokengifs collects such things.

Can someone open it in IE and confirm whether it works better than on other browsers? That'd be a first.

Nothing fancy, just a bouncing ball in canvas that follows the laws of gravity and elasticity.

http://i.imgur.com/6fZaanU.png

Site: http://bhashkar.me/stuff/physics/ Needs some fixes.

Coincidentally, our site redesign was internally being worked on, and we updated the site in a day or two.

We decided it is not worth going through the hassle of chasing someone who claims their expertise to be cloning a website.

That's the product they were selling. Clone websites. And I daresay they proved their competence by cloning ours.

One morning, we woke up to see Google Analytics sending us data from an external site. When we opened that link, it turned out to be a clone of our website.

They had crawled the entire site (which was designed by our partners) and replaced the logos and text. The GA code was still there.

Thanks for pointing out the issues and the valuable feedback. We didn't expect such a great response and hit the throttling limits on our APIs. We are addressing these issues.

This post reminded me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeAkYuMDVGY

Are you implying that the tables have turned?

Reminds me of "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others".

Very well and funnily written, among other things. Thoroughly enjoyed :)

A whiff of those advertising dollars and the "care" flies out of the window. Also, search would not be possible.

I love how security expert Bruce Schneier (https://www.schneier.com) has implemented it. This also gives you an ability to see how popular an article is (based on the sharing numbers) if you want, which is another purpose these widgets serve.

That's a valid concern. I'm not asking to go with a totally unheard-of outfit, but we can take a call depending on the particular use case. For instance, as a note-taking app I've stuck with Evernote for 2+ years now, and I don't see a reason to switch to Google Keep. I love the single-sign-on and all the auto-integration goodies that come as a part of Google suite, but that is not what you are always looking for.

Will try dropping in if it happens at a place like Barleyz.

I remember reading (can't recall the source right now) that a study conducted over multiple newspapers over a period of time revealed that 95% of news carry a negative tone. Add this to the fact that most news channels focus on trivia more than important issues and I have a perfect reason to not dive into news. I still sneak a peek at any interesting story that shows up on my twitter stream though.

Damn! I remember getting drunk last night, but can't recall writing this post. It sounds like me, except that I have a few years on my hands before I hit 30.

Thanks for removing 'educational institution' from the description. IIPM is probably an educational institution as much as a circus is a wildlife reserve.

I used it to give a talk at Droidcon hacknight. Here's a <dark> video :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiSuxPpJTg

Is it just me who feels that it is just a re-run of the classic 'Zuck' way of doing things: Make mistake and apologize when it blows up? What's happening inside the company is any outsider's guess, but I definitely don't feel reassured.

I did the same thing 2 weeks back. People whom I meet keep asking, but honestly, I haven't missed it for one second. I wrote a little something about it http://tumblr.bhashkar.me/post/23712148539/why-i-deactivated...

Thanks for building it :) I loved the part about having responsive design baked in and it being on top of django (since that's one framework I know the best). Myself have been thinking of building something similar for a while.