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Fwd: Worldwide day of Solidarity with the People of Iran. July 30th - The Iranian Solidarity Project: The Iranian Solidarity Project is calling for a worldwide day of mourning and solidarity on July 30th, the 40th day of Neda Agha Soltan's passing. Please do what and your community can to honor this woman and to show solidarity with those in Iran...

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Techrotica

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Orion's is better :-) - Slappy Line

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Mmmm nice but I see a slight design problem... - Rasmus Lauridsen

I love the power glove...it's so bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Cassidy

SCHWING - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I had one. It didnt work at NES but it rocked at pretend. - Geoff Schultz

funny how the power glove is not that much different from the wii remote yet the glove never really caught on - Holden Caulfield

controllers which attach to the hand/arm sound like a cool idea, and can often look cool, but in my experience they generally just feel wrong and aren't as comfortable to use as one you can hold in your hands.. - Slappy Line

Robert Scoble

Hmm, Twitter is performing maintenance tonight. Bad timing given #iranelection and #140conf -- come to http://friendfeed.com

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you gotta be kidding. - Justin Long

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Why hasn't Twitter fixed its problems yet? It's amazing how much downtime Twitter continues to have. @ev on Saturday told me they've hired some remarkable people from Google. I hope that these new employees are able to fix these problems. For a web service to be down with 90 minutes of planned downtime seems very poor. - Robert Scoble

Good call Robert. Hopefully you got my note. - Dean Kakridas

And this isn't the first time. They've had tons of these "planned outages." - Robert Scoble

that will kick off huge conspiracy theories, people are already wondering if youtube is pulling videos when they are simply getting overwhelmed. and they will pull the plug on all the people in iran using twitter to get information out. i cannot believe they would do that. - Justin Long

They need to put the Google people in management positions. IMO the problem is in management, not the developers themselves. - Jesse Stay

And who is Twitter's CTO? - Jesse Stay

These guys have been involved in high traffic websites before, they have the experience in scaling etc - Kashif Khan

although there have been loads of retweets with #iranelection - perhaps they have overloaded the system - Justin Long

Kashif they're not doing a very good job at it - Jesse Stay

Hire the Facebook guys - they got through the vanity URL thing without even slowness - Jesse Stay

@Jesse exactly, and double yes on the facebook event - Kashif Khan

and you never see Facebook or FriendFeed "going down for maintenance" - Jesse Stay

It was probably coordinated with Jeff Pulver's 140 conference, which take place tomorrow morning in NYC ;) - Nir Ben Yona

Nir: I wonder if they will ship some new features tomorrow? Hopefully they fix their technical problems for once. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I truly hope so, there are so many things to improve and for some reason I have this feeling that Twitter is about to change, only question is WHEN? - Nir Ben Yona

And hopefully, the Find People and Search problem will be fixed. And @atx will be searchable again! - Dean Kakridas from email

Nir: @ev says they are going to ship more new features in next few months than they've shipped in past two years. Hope they do well, love them or hate them Twitter has become an important piece of infrastructure that needs to be good. - Robert Scoble

Not just maintenance, but maintenance at 9:15am in Iran. If they're going to do it, they should do it now and disrupt us instead. - Jeremy Felt

Robert: Yup, I have to agree. But hey, don't you have Building 43 so you could interview @ev and pull some secret stuff out of him ;) - Nir Ben Yona

I doubt they would want to reveal their stuff earlier than they need to - Kashif Khan

Another time for Friendfeed to step up to the plate and replace Twitter while it is down. - Roberto Bonini

He and I will do an interview, yes. He said I'm welcome at Twitter's headquarters (another reason I kept my mouth shut about the SUL). - Robert Scoble

Roberto: unfortunately that will never happen. We've been through Twitter failures many times before and they never slow Twitter down. - Robert Scoble

but when would be a good time to take it down? 20 million users (most of whom dont follow the same stuff as us btw) is hard to handle... - Jeremy Toeman

jeremy: other systems handle far more users without going down at all. Seems that they still are taking the lazy way out of engineering choices. Anyway, we've learned (and they've learned) that being down all the time doesn't matter. We keep coming back. Which means their lazy engineering choices are probably correct ones. - Robert Scoble

And as long as they have the easy explanation - "it's our hosting company" - they don't have to feel responsible. - Jeremy Felt

Well they get away with it. Plus ppl dont know of alternatives and are just used to tweeting - Kashif Khan

Aren't they updating to announce something? - Michiel Sikkes

Michiel that has not been true in the past. - Robert Scoble

Hey, to Twitter's credit, I have not experienced even one TwitterFail since the Iranian election. I suggest that everyone write Twitter requesting they hold off a day or two on their maintenance. Of course, we cannot know what the news will be then. - Bettina Tizzy

Bettina: you're lucky, I have had two fail whales today. - Robert Scoble

We Twitter users have demonstrated that while we will bitch loudly, no matter what they do, we flock like lemmings right back to the service. As long as that trend continues, Scoble's correct in observing their lazy engineering choices are the right ones for them to make - Ken Camp

Wow, they might be listening a little this time - "al3x: Yes, we are communicating the importance of keeping the service running to our hosting provider. We'll see what we can do." - Jeremy Felt