Topic: Alex Payne

Microsoft counters Google's sales pitch to Office users

Info World - 642 days ago
Microsoft has gone on the counterattack against Google, saying that its rival's online applications don't cut it as supplements to Microsoft Office.. In a lengthy blog post, Alex Payne, director of Microsoft's online product management team, took on a ...

Twitter gets the munchies again, eats user avatars

CNET - 878 days ago
Twitter recently changed its default user avatar--you know, the one that pops up if you haven't uploaded a picture of your own--to a cute little bird icon. "Many people in my timeline suddenly have default user icons," Twitter engineer Alex Payne ...

Exposed: the great password scandal

TechRadar UK - 1017 days ago
Judging by the number of recommendations it was receiving on Twitter, it was clearly an outstanding service.. "I'm now using My Name is E to add friends to my Twitter account! It soon became apparent that My Name is E was ...

The Secret Behind Twitter's Growth

MIT Technology Review - 1048 days ago
At the Web 2.0 Expo today in San Francisco today, Twitter's Alex Payne discussed the technical details of the programming language he hopes can help his company handle the upswing in traffic it has experienced over the past few years ...

There's still a lot of work to do

CNET - 1096 days ago
Few people would characterize the popular and influential microblogging service Twitter as " " Hack attacks on Twitter, and Twitter users, appear to be increasing (latest: Last year, TinyURL introduced a major improvement to the service that anyone using Twitter should use: If so ...

Twitter developer claims the "the internet is built wrong"

CNET - 1203 days ago
Tweet . In a recent article, Alex Payne, API Lead at Twitter, claims that the internet is broken. True, but maybe he can give IM back to Twitter users in his spare time. In true ironic reality show fashion, a poll running next ...

Track coming back to Twitter

CNET - 1249 days ago
A trio of Twitter executives--Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Alex Payne--showed up at the BearHug Camp, held at CNET headquarters in San Francisco, to answer questions about the future of the service, such as when the " Developers attending BearHug Camp, including RSS ...

Spammy Twitter accounts to get the virtual guillotine

CNET - 1377 days ago
There are very few rules on microblogging platform Twitter. Twitter has started to shut down accounts that it has flagged as "spam," reported blogger Jesse Stay.. "We've been considering this issue here at Twitter HQ, and we're planning on simply ...