Wow, if we keep syndicating across syndication tools, at what point does our feed come back to us a feed from someone else? 5 times around the world with my RSS feeds.
MyBlog Community Page Added.
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Sep 18 2008
Twitter FAIL, Twitter Whale, Twitter will Fly Away Eventually
Twitter is good because
- lots of people use it
- i have a lot of followers
- i can track interesting people and events
- it is social media
Twitter fails because
- it is unreliable
- their servers cannot handle the load
- they are doing something wrong
- it is broken
- the company is not really a company at all, it's a bunch of smart kids
Twitter will fly away because
- it fails
- they are not partnering with the right folks if they are still failing
- google doesn't need to buy them
- a tweet may be unique to twitter, but the micro-blog format is nothing special, just a feed
- yammer.com replicated their business model in a couple of weeks
- it's nothing special
- aggregation of our social media bits and bytes is the uber play
- friendfeed does twitter better than twitter, the tweet is an afterthought limited to 140 characters
What better way to make a newbie socialite salivate than teasing me with new followers.
twitter-new follower request
And the joke continues to be on me.
twitter-deleted account
But I think the real joke is that the Tweet Folks can't figure it out. This has been an issue for about 2 months.
And Biz Stone kept saying at the TWITLIVE conference last week, "Now that Al3x is full-time…" As if now we should have confidence that sending stuff directly to alex's email is going to result in speedy and efficient fixes. And I'm thinking… "they just got 15 mil in new investment and they brought on ONE FTE to manage the morass?" I guess they wanted to put a lot of it in investments while they are hedging their bets and putting off upgrading the servers.
But, of course, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Except this:
friendfeed - profile + services
Now if we can just get an OPEN ID and OPEN MESH system in place. (Calling Mark Cantor, calling Mark Cantor!)
And…
twitter-timeout error
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And now enjoy some fail whale humor from other sites.
The fail whale widget.
An interview with Yiying Lu the fail whale artist.
Sep 02 2008
Google Chrome Shares No Love – Am I Scared, Nah!
The GOOGLE CHROME Launch was announced via an online comic book. But don't imagine that they are just fooling around in the browser space. Let's hope they are not kicking off an new era of "browser wars."
Okay, so what if the most powerful force on the web today entered the free browser market? And what if they controlled over 50% of the ad revenue generated on the web? And then what if they started tweaking code for "their" browser rather than everyone's browser?
Soon we might began noticing that things are looking just a bit different in FF and IE. And the pages seemed to load at about the same speed when Chrome launched definitely seem faster in Chrome. And then those cool embedded ads and adwords and blogs and widgets that are all part of the Chrome experience, and a couple of them are introduced as "chrome exclusive."
Fine call me paranoid. Don't call me a huge MS fan or anything, but this is the next step in shipping a Google OS.
It is fine to proclaim to do no evil. But will Google behave within the Open Source Community as a partner and not an enemy?
Once FF was the new kid on the block, and v3 looks pretty smooth. But are you serious, we now have to test for THREE browser formats again? Oh my. Maybe IE 8 will fix some of the things IE 7 broke. Who knows, maybe the Google OS will be good for computing on all processor platforms.
Now if Google buys Adobe, all bets are off on the evil thing.
TechCrunch does the Google Chrome cartoon as "We Really Hate Microsoft."
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