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On Friday afternoon, Netflix published a blog post announcing a breaking change to their API, and dedicated a small paragraph to the fact that their API terms of use had been updated. On a technical level, these changes will cripple many apps currently integrating with Netflix, but the legal changes may be even more significant. Netflix customers should be aware of not only the upcoming changes to any 3rd party apps they might use, but what this says about Netflix as a business.

You can find the announcement on their developer blog.

It’s incredibly exciting to see how the Web is evolving, and 2013 has a lot more in store. Over the next year, there are a number of technologies coming down the pipeline that have the potential to radically transform how we use and develop for the Web. CSS filters are already in Chrome and Safari, and allow advanced styling as as blurring, warping and modifying the color intensities of elements. However, that’s only the start of it. CSS Custom Filters let you write your own fragment and vertex shadows in GLSL, a language that has been integral to traditional 3D rendering over the past 10 years or so.What this means in practice, is that you can

When the news hit that Sparrow has been acquired by Google, you could almost hear the collective sigh from those who use and love this wonderful iOS and Mac OS X email client. Many people (myself included) took to Twitter to voice our disappointment with this move, especially about the fact there there will be no additional development on the app:

We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to

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