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Embeddable tweets, one of the newest “hot topics” for social media enthusiasts, sprang on the seen on May 4th and by the morning of May 5th there were already dozens of offerings of ways to make grabbing the HTML code for embeddable tweets simpler.

Embedded tweets are simply an HTML snippet in your blog or webpage. What Twitter did special was to make the HTML code for tweets more user friendly. Don’t panic if you have no idea what I am talking about because you’re about to get a demonstration and the link to the simplest embedded tweet HTML grabber you can find.

Problem solved

With BlackBird’s drag and drop bookmarklet getting the embed code is done in three steps. Here is a sample of an embeddable tweet:

Grab the BlackBird bookmarklet from the twitter embeddable tweets article.

One thing I did was remove my Twitter background from the embeddable link. The background I use is a left aligned, non-repeating background. Since the background does not behave the same in the embeddable tweet I simply removed it. Yes, you can manipulate the attributes of the code to change the appearance of your embeddable tweet.

This is the actual HTML used to place this embedded tweet in this article:

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The topic in the Apple Discussions board is “Parental Controls Content Restrictions do not work correctly in iTunes?” The content is all about the ability for anyone, regardless of age or how the parental controls are set, can view previews of adult content showing?unacceptable?imagery.

The topic opener ends with the question, “Is there a step that I missed? How do I make the 17+ apps not visible? I do not want to disable the entire App store, just the explicit content.”

Whoa, there! Developers are singing a different story. One developer fired back by sending a completely unveiled threat over their application “Wobble iBoobs” in a blog post with the statement, “Roll on WINDOWS PHONE 7, ANDROID ? Apple you are completely fith if you think developers are going to take this one without a class action.”

We have not reviewed “Wobble iBoobs” but evidently someone from the Apple staff has?ogled?whatever may be there – which the developer says is nothing. Apple sent a letter to the developer who has recieved over $300,000 AUS from their app which includes, “Your application, Wobble iBoobs (Premium Uncensored), contains content that we had originally believed to be suitable for distribution. However, we have recently received numerous complaints from our customers about this type of content, and have changed our guidelines appropriately. ?We have decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store, which includes your application.”

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Here a suit, there a suit, everywhere a suit suit. Especially when a multi-billion dollar company is on the receiving end. So the question isn’t so much whether or not you think Google may have violated security but whether or not you agree with the “pile it on” sue happy environment many attorneys seem to live in.

According to a report in Infoworld, “Eva Hibnick, a resident of Sarasota County, Fla., filed the suit in a San Jose, Calif., federal court on behalf of herself and the approximately 31 million U.S. users of Google’s popular Gmail e-mail service. The lawsuit alleges that Google violated federal privacy and computer fraud laws by adding Buzz to the Gmail service last week.”

Just between you, the wall, and I do you think Eva Hibnick’s privacy was violated enough to warrant a federal law suit? Haw about yours? I mean I didn’t much appreciate Google automatically adding people to my Buzz stream but since that addition exposed absolutely ZERO of my private information or communication to them … know what I’m saying?

How about your two cents:

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You read the title correctly. Furthermore it is a truth -- at the 20th Anniversary for Photoshop the iPhone app was unveiled by Dr. Russell Brown of Adobe.

Development on the Corona SDK “The function of the app is to load any photo from your iPhone library, and then manipulate it using any aspect of the original Photoshop 1.0 ‘Levels’ panel (which lets you adjust white point, black point and gamma, in separate red/green/blue or combined channels) ? including the original image histogram feature. You can then save the modified photo back into your iPhone library.”

Detailed information available on the Ansca website.

Twitter not enough for you? Tired of all the social applications on Facebook crowding your stream? Meet Google Buzz. The Buzz reached me today and, being the shy and demure type that I am, I decided to jump in with both feet. Here’s what I found:

1. Google Buzz seems to be a blend of the Facebook live stream and Twitter.
2. Google Buzz allows you to use your existing Google message groups to send messages.
3. It automatically connected to my Google connected sites that are public (see image). That includes both Picasa and Google Reader for me. (If you do not want to share your reader go to http://www.google.com/reader and change the settings.)
4. “People you follow” on Google Buzz also show up on http://www.google.com/reader in the left menu bar.
5. Message on Google Buzz showed up automatically in my Gmail inbox. Not sure yet how to change that feature. Messages show up in the inbox with a Google Buzz logo. Once they are entered you can interact with that conversation inside your web based Gmail.

The intereface (web page) for Google Buzz isn’t that different than other social engagement websites with live streams. You can see posts from your friends and comment on them. One thing I do already like is the comments are more like Facebook than Twitter where one conversation is grouped together. Unlike Facebook you do have some control over the theme but unlike Twitter you are the only one who will get the benefit of it.

I like that you can share multiple photos in your posts as well as videos and apparently audio. Because Google Docs is right there in the same sphere it will also be very easy to link to a spreadsheet or slide presentation you have stored in Docs.

So far definitely thumbs up.