How Facebook got into the mobile OS game without actually building a mobile OS

Facebook Home isn’t a mobile operating system. But normal users who buy or download the Home experience won’t know or care. They’ll suddenly have Facebook phones that look, feel, and behave totally different from Android phones.

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Codecademy completes PHP course, ‘ready for prime time’

The free learn-programming-online site now has 11 modules and 86 lessons in all things PHP from the basics to standard if/else logic flow to arrays, functions, and advanced object-oriented programming.

If Home becomes popular, non-Facebook Android devs will get slaughtered

Facebook has said for years that it intends to become the very best distribution platform for mobile developers;. Today, it's turning that promise into a threat.

Gnip pulling public posts from Instagram, Reddit for dark marketing magic

“We spend all day talking to people who are finding goldmines in this data," said the Gnip's COO. Now, the company has just opened a ton of new goldmines.

The mobile war is over and the app has won: 80% of mobile time spent in apps

Only 20 percent of American consumers' time on mobile devices is spent on the web. A massive majority, 80 percent, is spent in apps: games, news, productivity, utility, and social networking apps.

Facebook & Gates Foundation expand their education hackathon

Bright minds and top-shelf developers from around the world will be tackling tough, systemic problems in academics in a hackathon series co-sponsored by Facebook and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Twilio & Google partner to bring cloud communications to App Engine

Cloud communications startup Twilio has partnered with Google to bring voice and messaging abilities to apps being developed with Google App Engine, the companies announced today.

Here’s what Adobe plans to do with Behance, starting with free portfolio sites

Starting today, Creative Cloud subscribers (paid tiers only) will get free access to Behance's ProSites, a feature that gives creatives customized online portfolios with cleaned-up URLs and great UIs.

Adria Richards speaks on women, men, and tech … but not a certain fired developer

In the week or so since she tweeted a picture of a joking developer that eventually resulted in his firing, her company SendGrid getting DDOS'd, her firing, and a host of sometimes-scary attacks online, she hasn't tweeted or blogged or spoken in public.

What Twitter and Pinterest know about DevOps that you don’t (infographic)

Twitter and Pinterest aren't just hyper-growth social networks with huge user counts and even huger valuations. They're also two key examples of "DevOps," a relatively new way of building and releasing web apps at increasingly high speed.