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Security is a huge issue. Any way you look at it, someone determined will always be able to get data. I feel that building trust and having an understanding of the technologies are very important. - Franklin Naval

@Robert- di you provide the originating link for this piece of sensationalist nonsense? Oi! Very poorly researched piece. And yes - I feel a blog post coming on. - Dennis Howlett from twhirl

The US DoD is looking to move data operations to a few data centers. That and limit the number of connections between defense networks and the WWW. Those two might go hand in hand. - Kevin L

I agree with Dennis Howlett, links to supporting material RS? - Fred Grott

lets demolish for fun and profit, Reason #1..ahem when you send data to US gov for payroll its outside the firewall and 100% of all fortune 500 and etc do this.. Reason #1 is hogwash. - Fred Grott

I agree with @jonbeckett73 . Every time I speak somebody at any big enterprise they come up with *security* question. - Thejesh GN

Fred: So, if everyone else does it, it must be fine? :-) - Brent Newhall

I wrote a lengthy reply to these 10 points on the original GigaOM article. I don't agree with a majority of these items. - Michael Sheehan from twhirl

There is nothing standing in the way of these items being addressed. Amazon Web services has a record of listening to what needs to be done and doing it. All this post serves to do is highlight the things that need to be solved. - Roberto Bonini

Rawrrrrr! - Thomas Hawk

you are both a bunch of pussies - Noah David Simon

LOL.. btw... "Friendfeed" ;) - Gina Häußge

Yep, that pretty much sums it up. I can think of some other recent "conversations" (pissing matches) that you could apply that to. - Mike Doeff

except twitter seems ill, so is it a fair catfight? ;-) - Richard Binhammer from Alert Thingy

Indeed it is. - MG Siegler

I noticed that while trying to check Twitter's blog. I thought even that was down at Twitter. LOL - Rubin Sfadj

Wordpress is one word :P - Yaser Sulaiman

And I was just to write a much-overdue post in Blogger. Now I have an excuse not to. Thanks, Blogger! - Dave Roth

wordpress, expression engine I vouch for them, blogger nah - Dobromir Hadzhiev from twhirl

something Google has is down?! - BCK from twhirl

Blogger used to be much worse 2 years ago. It's gotten much better in the last few years but still I think WordPress is probably much better. I've been threatening to jump for years but then after they improved their system I held off. The spam comments are really starting to get to me though and I'm not sure Blogger is really planning on doing anything about the spam. - Thomas Hawk

blogger as free and flexible platform is much more close to ideal than wordpress in both incarnations (worpress.com is too rigid, and wordpress on your own /3rdparty hosting is more about time/money investment) - A.T.

It must be Twitter envy. - Brian Sloane

I was just going to ask about it. I tried commenting on a post on the Blogger platform, opening our blog. No luck. - Alex Williams

Thanks Yaser. Kinda knew that. ;-) - Robert Sanzalone

WordPress is great and all but keep in mind self-hosted blogs go down all the time. I haven't heard many complaints about Wordpress.com though. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I couldn't agree with Robert more. WordPress is your friend. - Sandie Law

I was waiting for the "this is why you should to switch to wp" comments. - Mike Fruchter

You know what I'm going to say here, Louis, so I won't even say it. I'll just think it. ;) - Cyndy

Shey: Of course, you're wrong on this :) self-hosted blogs do NOT go down all the time, unless the person who manages it is someone who doesn't know anything about coding/hosting - directeur

Shey, my personal self-host only goes down when I break it myself. Then again, I pay more than $4.95 a month to have a decent host with extraorinary up time. I've learned that lesson. - Cyndy

I am on blogger too. I must say though that my uptime is better than most of my self hosting friends. The big difference is that blogger fixes itself. - Seth Gottlieb from twhirl

The Import from Blogger feature in WP is very nice - well working! If you guys want a self hosted blog which can be protected against slashdotting effects, go and give Drupal a try. - ※Fu※

Textpattern FTW :) - directeur

@directeur @Cyndy Unless you're tracking your blog's uptime, how do you know it never goes down? My self-hosted WordPress blog has 98.55% average uptime in the past month. Almost all of the downtime has been 15 min or less. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Blogger is back up. Woo. - Louis Gray

@Shey: I pay a good hosting company for this, and I made evrything for caching, and other notifications stuff (I'm a developper actually and an ex computer science teacher at univ. too)... so say I'm a lil' bit lucky :) - directeur

I don't know how reliable this site is - http://uptime.pingdom.com/site... - but Blogger hasn't dipped below 99% in the last couple of years for a full month. - Gary

That Pingdom link says downtime of 1h 24m today. - Louis Gray

Google should buy Blogger and make it reliable.. Oh, wait.. - Paul Buchheit

paulbucheit++ that's pretty funny... except it's true ;) - dave mcclure

+1 for Paul's comment, made me laugh.. :) - Derek Collison

Does anybody wonder why Twitter doesn't scale? It was created by the same people that created Blogger, which had a horribly inflexible back-end and was technically just crap. (Blogger is still crap, but whatever.) - sebmos

@cindy @shey -- what web hosting companies do you use? I signed up for dreamhost last year when they had a special of $10 for the whole year, and they seem pretty good. I also run my own server, which, upon cursory inspection from monit e-mails, has a downtime of about 5-10 minutes per month ~ 99.8% up (excluding the day or two several months ago where I messed up the DNS entries)) - Robert Felty

It's amazing. Studies have shown this for years. The tiny extra cost provides major benefits in terms of how much information workers can process at one time. - Dion Hinchcliffe from twhirl

I actually prefer a larger single screen instead of two separate screens, but yes, I agree with the article. - Raoul Pop

I use virtual desktops instead. - Steve Rubel

on my team at work, we all have two monitors. - edythe

I can't stand big monitors. - Steve Rubel

Steve: HOW do you do virtual desktop? - Thomas Ho from fftogo

@Thomas Spaces in OS X or via an add-in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Steve Rubel

I pretty much started the two monitor revolution here at work after using it several years at home. There's really no other way. - Vince DeGeorge

Virtual desktops are just not the same thing as more physical screen real estate. - John Swords from Alert Thingy

I wonder if productivity would go up if I had 6 or 8 or 12 screens at my desk? I think I'd love it, but I'm not sure how much work I'd get done. ;) - Chrimmus Tad from fftogo

Tim uses 2 screens and one computer. I use one mongo screen but bounce between two computers. - Susan Bratton from Alert Thingy

Personally, two screens increased my productivity. Far more than virtual desktops do. - Bwana ☠

I use three monitors. I like multiple screens better than wide screens. - Mack D. Male

My take on this, posted yesterday: http://www.pcmech.com/article... - David Risley

I have a Dell XPS 13 inch notebook paired with a 52 inch LCD monitor (1920x1080) and still would like more real estate. Once you have it, I find I want more. - Keith Bilous from Alert Thingy

I have an old 17" connected to my laptop with the desktop spanned. I sure miss it when I'm on the road. - Tris Hussey from twhirl

On the flip side, if you want to reduce your computer addiction, get a monitor with 800x600 resolution. You'll find yourself using cellphone websites with that screen. :D - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Steve: Virtual Desktops is really not the same thing as being able to see 1+ things *at the same time*. If you have IM client or other 'ambient' apps one the other screen, you can still focus on what you're working on, without missing anything. - Benjamin Kudria

I seem to remember that the study this was taken from was sponsored by an LCD screen manufacturer. - Ian Betteridge

Bored? Yes, and we're trying to figure out what's good about either tool. - Robert Scoble

I'm not sure why FF couldn't completely replace Twitter. Any reason except for the established userbase of Twitter? - Vince DeGeorge

Vince - I think FF is too non linear and chaotic for most people to follow. Heck, I've used it to aggregate my content, but I haven't really gotten to following it. Twitter, on the other had, is much more simple. And linear. So people with small finite brains like mine find it easier. Not saying it doesn't have it's limitations - it does - but it's easier for me. my guess is there are lots of folks who feel similarly. - adam christensen

Yup, I've asked FriendFeed to give us a straight "linear" feed of various types. They are working on it. By the way, did you know if you click on any of the icons on the left that you will get a linear feed of that data type? - Robert Scoble

Twitter's use of SMS is a pretty big advantage imho... - Jeff Brewster

Jeff: FriendFeed told me that SMS is coming soon. - Robert Scoble

adam - That's funny, because I consider Twitter chaotic. Only because most of the time it seems like I'm only seeing bits and pieces of the conversation. I've got my "workflow" down on FF, where it's not chaotic at all. You can also bookmark specific conversations, which is nice. I think there is a place for both, but of the two, FriendFeed could replace Twitter, whereas Twitter could not replace FF. - Vince DeGeorge