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as if Ruby needed to get more confusing and complex...this comes along - acedanger
From 2003... he mentions its been vaporware for a long time. - Sam Pullara
Is that deck from 2003? Did Rails not evolve since then? - AJ Kohn
It says it was presented at Ruby Conference 2003... Rails and Ruby are not really connected as far as development goes. - Sam Pullara
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Loic Le Meur posted an entry on Loic Le Meur Blog
May 25 at 1:11 pm - Link
The best PR: create an uber useful product that targets people who (a) have large audiences and (b) can't keep quiet about using it. Eg, FF targeting Robert Scoble. :-) - Ranjit Mathoda
The PR Game needs to change, but can't figure out how. Bullshit is about where they are right now as they try to figure their way out of the pasture. - Warner Crocker
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Love the "Centipedes?" poster on the wall. - Marty McGuire
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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch
May 20 at 12:57 pm - Link
Yes, the glitches and outages are getting worse, not better. And it's driving activity over to Friendfeed. Which is not a bad thing, except for Twitter. They have several weeks at most to fix this before leading users start abandoning it. - Dion Hinchcliffe
If you want to network with others on Friendfeed, leave your handle on this post http://tinyurl.com/4gpsuh - Jeremiah Owyang
Couldn't agree more. It's super-frustrating! I wouldn't have tried FriendFeed if not for Twitter outages. I was using Friendfeed as an aggregator but may have to start using it for Twitter style needs as well. - Mario Sundar
I agree with Dion, except that I don't think Twitter has several weeks. They may have a few at the very most. I love Twitter and I'm almost ready to jump ship. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl
we just need more third party to FF to make it really usable in more cases. - kosmar via twhirl
There are tremendous threats to mindshare and usage when data / conversations can quickly be picked up in other platforms without skipping a beat. Flow is the new portability. - Chris Rechtsteiner
How long are we patient with Twitter? Why stick with it? Why not use something which WORKS! - Andrea B
@Dion Hinchcliffe: "They have several weeks at most to fix this..." How long have people been saying that? I think it's going to take more than occasional downtime (even daily) to cause a mass migration to another service. The size of Twitter's userbase gives it a huge advantage over the other services, even those that are technologically superior. I think there's a chance for a decentralized Twitter-like concept to take over, though. - Matthew Gifford
All these down times would have helped Jaiku if they had open sign-ups and a U.S. shortcode. I am surprised they haven't taken advantage. Ah.. another friendster swallowed by Google. - Erik Weese
Man this is crazy!! It's been down twice today and there isn't even any big breaking news...maybe they should just sell themselves to Google for the sake of keeping the service relevant. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl
@Erik Weese: Jaiku is dead. And even if it weren't, I don't think it would gain much from Twitter going down. I don't see many people calling for a move to Pownce or FriendFeed, either. - Matthew Gifford
@Devlin There was an announcement of some scheduled maintenance last night. Maybe they were updating the Something's Wrong graphics and this is just the follow up testing. - Kevin D. White
@Kevin D. White: Nope. Stuff is broken: http://groups.google.com/group... - Matthew Gifford
I'm here because Twitter seems to break every time it's stressed. - wrecks
@Erik. US short code: http://www.jaiku.com/blog/2008... Invites for those who want them: http://jaikuinvites.com/need-a... Any other requests? - Adewale Oshineye
AM giving a presentation on Twitter at SES Toronto and I really hope Twitter solves its issues by then or there won't be much to talk about. - Lee Odden
They're in the process of porting Jaiku to Google App Engine. Whether it ever turns into anything when that process is complete remains to be seen. - Chris Johnson
I just think this post is funny... esp the last line. - Dan Delphin via twhirl
The network effect has well and truly kicked in. People talking about "a few weeks left" for Twitter are dreaming. Nobody is leaving Twitter any time soon, though I agree that the stability of the service in general has been woeful for a long time now. - Jamie
hopefully users will stay around long enough to see the site work again :\ - Chris Jones via twhirl
Honestly, what is the real alterative? If there was one, don't you think people would have moved? - Dan Delphin via twhirl
I am still in a fog as to why Twitter doesn't provide some kind of definitive answers for the outages. They are obvious are aware of the fan base and have to know that the majority of us are pissed of. I keep harking back to the interview I saw the "Twitter guys" do with Shel Israel and they kept taking about improving "reliability". WTF!?!?!?!!?!!?! - James via Alert Thingy
" If Twitter had more communication when there are unexpected issues, I think users would be more understanding. " - A. Stern - James via Alert Thingy
they posted on their blog and they have a getsatisfaction.com site - Chris Jones via twhirl
Anyone register the TwitterTomb.com domain yet? Patiently waiting for http://jaiku.appspot.com ... - Johnny R
Michael Thanks for the heads up on the hotel (everyone seems to miss that this was the MOST important part of this message, hope you're feeling better). I'm looking for some context. I want to see what's happening to both traffic and new accounts as these 'hiccups' occur on Twitter. Why throw 'blame' around without any facts? 2.0 is allowing things to accelerate and change amplitude at such unanticipated rates that all 'normal' planning is next to useless. - Rotkäpchen
So apparently, they had a database failure... at least that's what they are saying at Getsatisfaction.com - Dan Delphin via twhirl
when in doubt blame the database! I can't believe they would only have one backup on hand though, seems very unlikely for a company of that scale (even if they are that small) - Chris Jones
Boy I'm glad I was staying at the Westin last week then. Nasty stuff, food poisoning. - Dickie Adams
One has to wonder how many times Twitter's users will put up with this... my guess is "not much longer" if things don't change drastically, and soon. - Lee Goolsbee
I'm curious, why don't people just migrate to FF or Pownce or some other reliable service instead of putting up with it? I don't use Twitter that much but it seems to me it's like a giant bee hive, so if you just move the queen bee (I guess that's Robert Scoble - no offense) the rest of the hive will follow. - Michael Pardee
twitter is still down. @michael Pardee people will follow the community and its catalyst. - Sean Scott
@Michael Pardee - I already have quit twitter (like the ryhme of that) and am using FF exclusively. - Jason Kaneshiro
Yep... twitter is over and out... - Aad 't Hart
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May 19 at 4:08 am - Link
Why doesn't this item in FF get any comments but the twits and google reader shared items do? Is it because otherwise the conversation gets away from the blog or is fragmented to much ;) ? - Mark Jenniskens
Answering Mark, it's because when Robert wrote this, he sent a tweet, and there is a delay between the tweet hitting FriendFeed and the blog post. Therefore, the conversation is already happening on the tweet before the blog post arrives. Happens to me as well. - Louis Gray
Mr. Scoble... Let me turn the dime on you... Google Scholar has a proprietary crawl on nearly 1 Million documents in the peer-reviewed energy exploration vertical search platform I operate by day. They've indexed something like 40,000 of them so far. Yahoo has NO CLUE those exist. They won't and can't. Google's already perfecting "closed" search deals (in enterprise and behind paywalls like mine). - Gerald Buckley
And, to Lousi and Mark, he also did a Reader shared item for it which also has comments. It's almost like he's trying to show how scattered things can get on friendfeed. I had to try to find this entry to comment here. I could have just done a Reader-share-with-comments, but I didn't. It would have been easier, though. - lilbyrdie
Personally I'm very bored of Facebook and I think a lot of people will get bored of it over the coming months and years. We've been through all this before. Five years ago in the UK friendsreunited was huge; it was all anyone talked about. They tried to maintain their monopoly by keeping it incredibly closed. Now it's virtually dead. Great services always beat big walls. - Charlie
Here's my first ever comment on FriendFeed, just for you Scoble. I can't see MS keeping Facebook closed if they do in fact acquire it. I don't agree that it is in their own best interest to do so. - Mack D. Male
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He's using window.name for object storage. This is a really interesting and potentially useful hack. I'm surprised that I've never heard of it before. - Paul Buchheit
Wow, that's clever. Never thought of that possibility before. - Meryn Stol
Brilliant! - mojay
Although, if you do an "open link in new tab/window" that will, effectively, end the session, I believe. In many ways it is not as robust as cookie based options. Hmm... - felix
As the author points out at the end, this technique is insecure and subject to XSS attacks. This is because the value of window.name is available across domains. It's an interesting hack but I don't think you will find a lot of people using it for this reason alone. - Kevin D. White
@Kevin developers have done stupider things :) - Steven Hodson
Kevin, that's also part of what makes it interesting -- it's possible to do cross site sessions :) - Paul Buchheit
@Paul I agree the idea is intruiging. I just can't see most dev groups deciding that in this case the reward is greater than the risk. Afterall most groups that aren't terminally stupid are more concerned about not carrying data across domains. I don't want to belabor the point. It is a cool hack. I just think the utility of it is pretty low. - Kevin D. White
This is interesting for limited applications, but the security flaw is troubling. Perhaps it would be useful for "one-page" or "flash" session data where you have a multipage form and don't want to POST between pages. - Gary Burge
The second comment notes that both Firefox and Safari *crashed* if you tried to stuff > 32 MB into window.name. Sooooo I'm not sure the security implications are limited to XSS ;-) - Karim
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The latest from my brother Brian. Big news coming from him soon, by the way... - Christopher Sacca
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[Brendan Eich comments about the birth of JavaScript]: As I've often said, and as others at Netscape can confirm, I was recruited to Netscape with the promise of "doing Scheme" in the browser... - Chris Wetherell
[About having Java and JavaScript]: ...two languages were required to serve the two mostly-disjoint audiences in the programming ziggurat who most deserved dedicated programming languages: the component authors, who wrote in C++ or (we hoped) Java; and the "scripters", amateur or pro, who would write code directly embedded in HTML. - Chris Wetherell
[On JS adoption]: Is JavaScript popular? It's hard to say. Some Ajax developers profess (and demonstrate) love for it. Yet many curse it, including me. I still think of it as a quickie love-child of C and Self. Dr. Johnson's words come to mind: "the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good." - Chris Wetherell
great. i now have that song stuck in my head again! :) - Nicole Simon
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Louis, did you reach the end of the Internet and decide to go back to read it again from the beginning? - Chris White
Ah, now reading more of FF, I see it was 37signals that was reading the Internet over again. - Chris White
The author of this anti-Internet piece is Cliff Stoll, best known for The Cuckoo's Egg, his 1990 book about tracking a hacker who had infiltrated his systems at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. He's an astronomer by training, but an early Internet user. We used him as a contrarian columnist on MSNBC's The Site, and ZDTV/TechTV. It was his schtick, but like our 1995 hair styles, it hasn't aged well. - Leo Laporte
Great find, Louis. Shows we've come a long way... - Rubin Sfadj
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It's really interesting how this is a new phenomenon. In the past if I was at a bad or boring presentation I would think it was dull, maybe tell my neighbor and maybe talk with some people afterwards about how boring it was (but we wouldn't all remember most of it) Social networking changes all that...I can get instant verification that yes, indeed this is awful from my fellow audience members. It creates a feedback loop that wasn't there before, made worse if the people on stage are not hooked in to that loop. - Nathan Manley
Sounds like a real life demo of Internet commenters. - Guy
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March 7 at 2:45 am - Link
"Twitter is another example of the ridiculous quickly turning to the sublime. Morons who can't choose one bar and stay there on Friday nights want their friends to be able find them. Voila, a service that sends out badly spelled messages about your whereabouts to everyone you know. A few short months later, Egyptian democracy activists are using the same tool to organize and communicate below the radar and/or while in jail." - Paul Buchheit
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