Freestyle Blog

This week we were proud to host a ‘Digital & Social Media’ workshop for several past, present and future British Olympic stars at our offices in Warwickshire. With a multitude of athletes (some record holders!) in our team and several key sports clients (Such as Rebecca Adlington and Keri-Anne Payne), we  were naturally delighted to provide our [...]

App developers are having the move with the times and those times and moving at super speed – the question on everyone’s lips today: mobile apps – native or web-based?

Lulzsec (Lulz Security) the group of hackers claiming responsibility for the latest (today) hack on Sony have themselves been targeted by hackers. Using a hack call DDoS (Distributed denial of service attack) the hackers have tried to force the lulzsecurity.com website down – so far to no avail. Lulz Security use a backup system called [...]

Soon to be launched Trendrr.com API was the basis for a new, open source protocol for building your very own firehose API for your web apps. Create your own firehose api with STREST.

My objective was to build an Auto Follower app in 2 hours for Twitter. The app needs to allow users to search the Twitter for a keyword and then follow the 10 most recent tweet authors. The app also needs to limit the number of searches a user can make so that the app can’t be used for spamming 100s of twitter users.