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"only 2nd place... more like 200th for me (if I'm lucky!)" - Josh Fraser

"It's rare for a single metric to convey the whole story. Doing Torbit has given me a renewed appreciation for histograms. I wish people used them more." - Josh Fraser

"There are a lot of issues with using GA for collecting performance data. Like you mentioned, their use of averages leads to a lot of problems. They also heavily sample & only collect timing data from browsers that support Nav Timing. Have you thought about using something like Torbit Insight (http://torbit.com) to get more accurate performance data?" - Josh Fraser

"Speed is the #1 feature, and on mobile web we're failing. Last week, one of our engineers at Torbit crawled the Alexa 100k with a fake iPhone User Agent to see how many sites are serving up custom content for mobile. Only 6% of sites crawled offered a custom mobile experience. I believe one of the key pieces of infrastructure we need is a way to make website load faster on a mobile device. Let's face it, one of the biggest reasons the mobile web sucks right now is because it's so slow. Of those 6% of sites with a mobile specific experience, only 8% were using a CDN. A traditional CDN alone won't solve the problem because it's the round trip times that are the biggest killer on mobile. The data we have shows that we're still in the early days on mobile" - Josh Fraser

"It's not about the money. I don't have the time to deal with random errors messages and brokenness." - Josh Fraser

"I decided to check out Office 365 after reading your post. I clicked "Compare Plans" and then the "Free trial" link. I was greeted with the following message: Sorry! We can't process your request right now.You don’t have permission to access this page or perform this action.Support Information Correlation ID:scu#c629e1d6-b56b-44d3-b0c2-35b13e742ebe Error code:0 Right... Back to Google I go." - Josh Fraser

"The future I see is a world where my phone is my laptop. I walk into my office and my phone connects over something like bluetooth to my monitor, keyboard and mouse. Mobile devices already have enough computing power for just about everything I need & that is only increasing. The CPU in my iPhone is better than the laptop I had 5 years ago. In a couple years it won't make sense to have both a phone and a laptop/desktop anymore. A laptop is just a bulky phone that can't make phone calls. The part about mobile that sucks most is the interface. I don't want to stare at a tiny screen. I don't want to type on a piece of glass. The UI will have to adapt based on the screen site, but we already have everything else we need. Mobile = Desktop. Sometimes I'll be connected to a screen/keyboard. Sometimes I won't be." - Josh Fraser

"sure, but it's super hard to get participation above 5% with that approach  Sent from my iPhone (803) 981-2446 | torbit.com | joshfraser.com" - Josh Fraser

"Great post Albert. Having been involved with the PubSubHubbub protocol from the early days, it's exciting to see that app.net are planning to include support for some of these open web protocols. Like Dave Winer, I wish their model was less centralized, but I think this is a great step in the right direction (even PuSH uses central hubs). If app.net continues to see good adoption, it will be far more likely for other products like Twitter or G+ to adopt the same protocols. No matter what happens with app.net, they will likely push the other players towards being more open -- that's a win." - Josh Fraser

"Andrew Hyde did this for us when we shut down EventVue and it meant the world to us. http://andrewhy.de/eventvue-jo..." - Josh Fraser

"Thanks for much for this post!" - Josh Fraser

"Doug, It's great to hear you're using Torbit Insight and finding it useful. Thanks for the article!" - Josh Fraser

"I love this post.  The whole concept of recruiting by paying it forward and building long term relationships has definitely been true for me." - Josh Fraser

"Thanks for including the shout-out for Torbit Insight.  JP, you should come stop by the Torbit office sometime.  We'd love to meet you." - Josh Fraser

"Very cool.  Great to see you guys doing this." - Josh Fraser

"Very cool.  Great to see you guys doing this." - Josh Fraser

"Very cool.  Great to see you guys doing this." - Josh Fraser

"For what it's worth, I agree with him about de-criminalizing prostitution and heroine. I wish we had more intellectual consistency in our laws. If tobacco and alcohol are legal, why isn't marijuana? Is the role of the government to stop us from doing stupid things to ourselves? It's one thing when our actions affect other people (driving high for example) but I'm not sure it's the government's job to stop me from risking my own life base-jumping if I want to. I'd like for us to be able to do more protecting of innocent people abroad, but most of our aid currently goes to propping up dictators and when we're trillions in debt, I think we need to fix our issues here first. You're totally right about the meetup data not being representative of course. I just found it interesting. :)" - Josh Fraser

"You can either strip out the if-statement and control the timing yourself, or change the timestamps according to the timezone you want to use. Here's a handy tool for calculating them: http://www.epochconverter.com/ You'll need to add 3 zeros to the end of a standard Unix timestamp since JavaScript counts milliseconds instead of seconds." - Josh Fraser

"Thanks for your support Andrew.  It's been amazing to watch the tech community come together in this fight." - Josh Fraser

"I appreciate you taking a stand.  It's easy for us to do, but I know it couldn't have been an easy decision for you considering your industry.  You have my respect." - Josh Fraser

"By doing it on Wednesday, we can amplify the message and collectively get more attention than just protesting on our own.  If you decide to join in, be sure to check out the stop-sopa.js widget.  It's easy to install and you can grab the code off github if you want to customize anything: http://torbit.com/blog/2012/01..." - Josh Fraser

"Fred & anyone who's interested, We just released stop-sopa.js -- a free JavaScript widget for blacking out your site on the 18th.  You can either use our hosted version or grab the code off github and modify it however you'd like.  You can check it out at http://torbit.com/blog/2012/01... Josh" - Josh Fraser

"you're welcome" - Josh Fraser

"FYI - you're missing a colon in the link to Letting Go.  Here's a working link: http://informationarbitrage.co..." - Josh Fraser

"I agree that would be a good feature to add.  Glad you got it working." - Josh Fraser

"Sure, an easy way to do this is to add a GET variable to the end of the URL you are fetching (ie. ?mysql_id=42) and then parse out that ID when the request completes from the CURL info array." - Josh Fraser

"I've had multiple reports of issues w/ those 2 browsers (see the comments above). Hopefully I'll find the time to dig into this more soon." - Josh Fraser

"The reason this hasn't gone mainstream yet is that only Chrome & Opera support it.  This causes a problem for webmasters who would like to add support, but can't justify caching copies of all their images to conditionally serve to 2 browsers.  We tackled this problem at Torbit and automated the process so any website can use WebP without any work at all.  We were impressed with the results as the performance gains are quite meaningful for image-heavy sites.  We shared our data in a blog post for anyone who is interested: http://torbit.com/blog/2011/05..." - Josh Fraser

"er, i think you mean insight, not incite  :)" - Josh Fraser