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"Generally, I am against the "big reset". My reasoning is that there are a core number of RSS feeds and social network contacts that you will likely keep at almost all times. For my RSS feeds, I tend to review my stats to see what I am reading and sharing. In some cases, I have removed popular feeds because of the signal/noise ratio in order to keep my RSS reading somewhat sane. Reviewing and pruning seems to be a good process, but it has to be continuous not once per year. Otherwise, entropy rules and you just have a lot of unread feeds with little signal." - Rob Diana

I have never been so excited to hear about a book's publication date. - Rob Diana

Interesting why only XML for the API ? - Peter Dawson

Dave, has your opinion on this changed now that you have a JSON parser? - Original Flavor

Been waiting for one of the big tech blogs to cover this. A little disappointed that I didn't get a link though. - Rob Diana

Seems like Twitter is using a boiled frog approach to closing their developer ecosystem. - AJ Kohn

The boiled frog is an excellent analogy. I wish I had used that in my post. - Rob Diana

A Google acquisition makes sense, Facebook has no reason to buy Twitter except to shut it down. No new features or users to acquire. - Rob Diana

Alexa shows an improving trend for Compete.com, but Alexa shows global data. - Rob Diana

"Disregarding non-coders, creating applications is still difficult even for veteran coders. There is so much that continues to change, and so much breadth of knowledge required, that a simple application becomes somewhat difficult. Even with the general object-oriented reuse that people try for, building reusable components beyond simple frameworks is tremendously difficult. Disappointingly, with the rise of mobile devices, I do not see this constant change halting at all." - Rob Diana

"Disregarding non-coders, creating applications is still difficult even for veteran coders. There is so much that continues to change, and so much breadth of knowledge required, that a simple application becomes somewhat difficult. Even with the general object-oriented reuse that people try for, building reusable components beyond simple frameworks is tremendously difficult. Disappointingly, with the rise of mobile devices, I do not see this constant change halting at all." - Rob Diana

That would mean I am supposedly watching 5 hours of TV per day. There is no way I could watch that much, I don't have the time. - Rob Diana

Tutorials for Making Your Website Mobile Friendly - Rob Diana

"The problem with this idea is context or the need for metadata. Keeping track of your network in each group is simple, but each network has a different purpose and that purpose could be different based on the person creating the network. For example, I use Facebook mainly for personal contacts, but other people use it for business. I use LinkedIn for business, and Twitter is a mix of business and personal. Each contact in each network has specific context (or metadata) that makes that connection mean something. For people, that context is implicit but for an application the context needs to be built and managed explicitly. I would love to have something like this as well, but with the number of network-enabled services, even the development becomes difficult. Also, how does this fit with the idea of a single digital identity that is shared across all of these services?" - Rob Diana

"The problem with this idea is context or the need for metadata. Keeping track of your network in each group is simple, but each network has a different purpose and that purpose could be different based on the person creating the network. For example, I use Facebook mainly for personal contacts, but other people use it for business. I use LinkedIn for business, and Twitter is a mix of business and personal. Each contact in each network has specific context (or metadata) that makes that connection mean something. For people, that context is implicit but for an application the context needs to be built and managed explicitly. I would love to have something like this as well, but with the number of network-enabled services, even the development becomes difficult. Also, how does this fit with the idea of a single digital identity that is shared across all of these services?" - Rob Diana

Thanks Rob. I appreciate the kind words. - AJ Kohn

AJ, I always like to share good content. So it is not a problem. - Rob Diana

I love little unix hacks like this. Without cygwin, you would completely miss the opportunity on windows. - Rob Diana

"There are a few other good tools as well. YackTrack is my personal favorite (and I am the developer), SocialMention.com and ScoutLabs. ScoutLabs is not free but I believe it is still fairly inexpensive." - Rob Diana

"There are a few other good tools as well. YackTrack is my personal favorite (and I am the developer), SocialMention.com and ScoutLabs. ScoutLabs is not free but I believe it is still fairly inexpensive." - Rob Diana

"There are a few other good tools as well. YackTrack is my personal favorite (and I am the developer), SocialMention.com and ScoutLabs. ScoutLabs is not free but I believe it is still fairly inexpensive." - Rob Diana

"There are a few other good tools as well. YackTrack is my personal favorite (and I am the developer), SocialMention.com and ScoutLabs. ScoutLabs is not free but I believe it is still fairly inexpensive." - Rob Diana

This is timely. I've been thinking about what makes someone an expert lately. http://www.quora.com/What-ma... Experience does seem like a strange metric ... - AJ Kohn

Sadly, it seems like the most common metric. In technology, it is very difficult to gauge expertise and testing just tends to show whether you can study. - Rob Diana

This post really makes it sound like Skype built something similar to a hierarchical DNS using P2P software. Very cool. - Rob Diana

Please tell me this is a joke. - Rob Diana

One issue with this is that the tree is unbalanced. We all know that Christmas trees need to be balanced. - Rob Diana

i'm working on two: Clojure and Actionscript - .LAG liked that

...I still do a bit of Flash, and Actionscript is the scripting language for that - .LAG liked that

I do what I do because coding is like an addiction. You can never solve enough problems. - Rob Diana

I have heard many people state that there is not a shortage of engineers, but there is a shortage of good engineers. - Rob Diana

The XML schema can and probably does out weigh the data it contains in all cases. Therefore, the real sweet spot of JSON over XML is bandwidth cost savings! Why pay when you don't have to. This is especially true in a services environment. Twitter would probably concur. - Shane

Bandwidth is definitely an issue for people with heavy traffic like Twitter. Most people are not dealing with that level of traffic though. What if bandwidth was not really a concern? - Rob Diana

Only parents will really understand this one. - Rob Diana

Actually, this shows the different strategies. Facebook is still going after consumers and Google is making a big push for enterprises. - Rob Diana

Did the GMail team feel like they had to announce something (anything) after the Facebook email hype? - Rob Diana