NewNewTwitter Promo Video: Fly Twitter

A few notes on the new design after a quick look and some read tweets: The textarea to compose a new tweet has gone from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?” to “Compose a new tweet” … #hmmz. NewNewTwitter still has these dreadful hashbang urls. DMs apparently are not prominent anymore. One reason for …

Google Maps: Mapping the indoors.

A new feature in Google Maps for Android 6.0, is the support for floor plans in buildings: When you’re inside an airport, shopping mall or retail store, a common way to figure out where you are is to look for a freestanding map directory or ask an employee for help. Starting today, with the release …

Ben Dodson: Goodbye Gowalla

Ben Dodson, once a loyal Gowalla user and 3rd party Gowalla App Developer — he created Wallabee (formerly GowallaTools), and Highlights — says goodbye to Gowalla. In his goodbye he talks about his developer love-hate relationship with Gowalla, highlights some of the points where Gowalla has failed over the years, and points out some points …

Facebook flaw allows access to private photos

Looks like the newly appointed Facebook Chief Privacy Officers have some explaining to do: Users are able to report “inappropriate profile photos” on a user’s profile. By checking the box “nudity or pornography”, the user is granted an opportunity to help Facebook “take action by selecting additional photos to include with your report”. Facebook will …

Constructive Solid Geometry 3D Modeling in JavaScript

Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) is a modeling technique that uses Boolean operations like union and intersection to combine 3D solids. This library implements CSG operations on meshes elegantly and concisely using BSP trees, and is meant to serve as an easily understandable implementation of the algorithm. This library provides three CSG operations: union, subtract, and …