Twitter’s architectural problems are well known. Many of us in the social networking scene have never been so focused on what’s under the hood of a particular service. While I do have a great deal of performance testing and tuning experience, I have never seen it pushed so hard in the social web. [...]
Entries Categorized as 'geek'
Kwippy Offers Stability First
July 5, 2008
Posted in 
An Open Sourced Twitter Emerges: Identi.ca
July 2, 2008
One of the conversations that stemmed from our “Twit-Out” a few months ago was, “Can we save Twitter with open-source?” My response was the following:
I agree that Twitter could use some help, but I don’t know if opening the source is the main solution. I do believe, a healthy dose of stiff competition encourages [...]
FriendFeed Enhances Podcasting Interactivity With Audio Sharing
July 2, 2008
As a podcaster, I’m always looking for ways to enhance the experience for my listeners. The community not only wants to consume the content I produce, but many feel the need to contribute their thoughts and feedback. With the evolution of FriendFeed as the one stop shop for discussion surrounding the social web, [...]
10 Days Without Twitter
June 17, 2008
If you didn’t already know, 10 days ago, I got tired of trying to use Twitter only to be greeted by errors. I have a strong Software Quality Assurance background and have a small tolerance for bad software, yet I put up with Twitter for almost 2 years. I had to call it [...]
Intense Debate Is the Easy Choice
June 12, 2008
A while ago, I wrote about my difficult decision between choosing from the commenting systems, Disqus and Intense Debate. Much has changed since that post, including Disqus’s support of video comments and now, Intense Debate’s support of FriendFeed. At this moment, the only benefit I see of using Disqus over Intense Debate is [...]
A Call to Use FriendFeed Rooms for WWDC Keynote
June 5, 2008
I covered FriendFeed rooms already and I think it’s a good addition to an already successful system at FriendFeed. Yesterday, FriendFeed rolled out new features for FriendFeed rooms.
One of these features is pretty significant: Semi-public rooms. Semi-public rooms allow an administrator of a room to have control over the posts [...]
Plurk: What’s the Big Deal?
June 4, 2008
When a new Twitter clone emerges in an already crowded space, it is easy to denounce it as just another wanna-be and classify it as a failure. No one knew Twitter would take the internet by storm, competitors such as Jaiku and Pownce are still thriving today, but they are nowhere near the [...]
4 Ways to Enhance Your Blog With FriendFeed
May 28, 2008
FriendFeed is great mechanism for sharing information and discussing topics around the social web. I’ve blogged about it before, and so have many others. There are many people who have successfully embedded Twitter statuses in their blog as well as other RSS information. The term “Lifestream” has been chosen to denote updates [...]
7 Ways to Utilize FriendFeed Rooms
May 23, 2008
Yesterday, FriendFeed launched a new feature called FriendFeed Rooms. Rooms allow you to create your own public or private area where you can post the same types of messages you can to FriendFeed directly. FriendFeed also introduced a “Reshare” feature which allows you to re-broadcast an existing post to your feed or to [...]
The Twit-Out Aftermath
May 22, 2008
I really can’t say I left Twitter for 24 hours because all we discussed was Twitter the entire time. It was a great experience and the atmosphere was completely positive contrary to what many thought it would be.
So, was it successful? I think so.
My goal from all this was [...]
content rss
