Wow, do we jump on problems quickly as a community around here or what? On Thursday, forums user aexellent reported an API change from the folks behind Foursquare. Foursquare is a popular location based social networking service (if you’ve been living under a rock). The update to the API effectively broke Foursquare for webOS but not for long!
Similarly to how YouTube functionality was restored within 48 hours, Foursquare was gone and then restored in only 24 hours. Who should we thank? Forums user and meta-doctor expert, Herrie, came to the rescue. But this wasn’t the typical patch solution. Oh no no no! The great news is that Foursquare for webOS creator, Zhephree, open-sourced the app and uploaded it onto github. This made the fix that much “easier” to come by. Not only is the app back to life and available for download on the forum thread but Herrie also added the solutions to github which should generate the request to update it for the HP App Catalog as well.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…I’m consistently blown away by the amazing webOS community. Thanks Herrie!
It’s that time again where we highlight, spotlight, and showcase one of the many webOS devs that have stuck around to keep us all going. Next up is a very busy and active member of the our great webOS community. Please join me in welcoming Grabber5.0!
The forums on webOS Nation are hands-down the place for webOS community interaction. Battery jumps to 0%? Stuck on the HP logo? All you have to do is ask for help. That’s the best part of our community! We support each other.
While the level of help you will receive on the forums varies with the subject matter, there are always those issues which seem to gather more “just doctor and be done with it” responses than actual troubleshooting steps. That’s a problem. Too often, help was just a bit too late to get there before someone pulled the “doctor it” trigger. Let me be frank…if that’s you, quit it. Seriously. And read on…
pivotCE reached out to former HP CTO, Phil McKinney, for his thoughts on LG’s implementation of webOS for their new line of TVs. As you may remember, Phil was on the HP board of directors and was pivotal to HP’s Palm acquisition. He has since retired from HP and is now the President and CEO of CableLabs. He just happens to be attending CES 2014 and had a chance to answer our inquiry with a hands-on look. Here’s what he had to say about the rebirth of the webOS platform:
No, this has nothing to do with LG’s new webOS TV, but it does have to do with webOS seen on TV…at least on a TouchPad spotted in a commerical.
Our favorite tablet, the HP TouchPad, can be seen in the latest “but-wait-there’s-more” style TV advertisement featuring the GoGo Pillow. The pillow is a combination pillow, backpack, neckrest, tablet-holder…uh, thing. Of all the tablets in the video why they had to choose the TouchPad to get dropped is beyond me. Check out the screen shot and video below to see it for yourself.
Wow, do we jump on problems quickly as a community around here or what? On Thursday, forums user aexellent reported an API change from the folks behind Foursquare. Foursquare is a popular location based social networking service (if you’ve been living under a rock). The update to the API effectively broke Foursquare for webOS but not for long!
