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Are you interested in social networks? We're talking about virtual communities here. Community builders use tools and techniques. We'll discuss them here in the Community Corral
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Latest Activity: Aug 23, 2012
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Twitter Limits Access to Friends of Friends via API
What do you think about Twitter's recent moves limiting access to data via their API? Continue
Started by Michael Levin Aug 23, 2012.
The Art of Community 2 Replies
I've just started reading…Continue
Tags: building, oreilly, community, of, jono
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Michael Levin Jan 31, 2012.
http://www.managingonlineforums.com/ 3 Replies
I just started reading the book, Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards and the author provided a link to his website, so I…Continue
Tags: networking, discussion, community, websites
Started by John Dargan. Last reply by Patrick O'Keefe Nov 11, 2009.
Friending people on twitter 2 Replies
I have noticed that whereas someone would normally search for their friends on twitter for purpose of following them, it is also possible to use twitter as a marketing tool and a community building…Continue
Started by John Dargan. Last reply by John Dargan Nov 8, 2009.
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Welcome to Codetown!
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Cloudflare Traces Turns the Proxy Layer into OpenTelemetry Spans, with New Volume-Based Pricing
Cloudflare has put Traces into open beta, extending automatic tracing from Workers to security rules, transformations, cache, routing and origin handling as OpenTelemetry spans. Traces accept and forward W3C traceparent headers, and Trace Rules allow targeted sampling. Pricing moves to ingestion and retention volume from December 1.
By Steef-Jan WiggersAndroid Bench 2 Adds Support for Long-Horizon Tasks, Agentic Evaluation, and Continuous Scoring
Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluation, and continuous scoring to better assess performance on complex, multi-step development tasks.
By Sergio De SimoneShopify Upgrades Checkout Blocks to Polaris Web Components, Cutting Bundle Sizes up to 85%
Shopify has updated its Checkout Blocks app, transitioning five high-traffic checkout UI extensions to remote-dom using Preact and Polaris web components. The rewrite, which involved moving to TypeScript and a new API version, led to significant reductions in bundle sizes and load times. From October 1, 2026, only the updated versions will be supported.
By Daniel CurtisGithub Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust with AI-Assisted Rewrite
GitHub migrated more than 800,000 lines of Copilot runtime code from TypeScript and Node.js to Rust in about 14.5 weeks using AI-assisted development. The incremental migration used N-API interoperability, automated testing, human review, and 128 pull requests while continuing to ship releases.
By Leela KumiliCircleCI Makes Machine Runner Orchestrator Generally Available
CircleCI has made its Machine Runner Orchestrator 1.0.0 generally available, providing automated scaling of self-hosted machine runner virtual machines according to CI workload demand.
By Craig Risi
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