So here’s the idea for supercharging your free AppEngine quotas: 1) switch you app to the paid model by enabling billing, 2) enter the minimum daily budget ($1), and 3) distribute the budget over resources you are 100% sure will not consume their free quota (e.g. if you have a stateless app which doesn’t use the database, put the whole $1 in the stored data quota). Since you put your budget on resources which won’t consume the entire free quota and since AppEngine doesn’t charge you anything if the app doesn’t step over the free quota – you are essentially getting a better free quota."
- Ivan Zuzak
"EDIT (Sept 5 2009): Yesterday, a week after my original post, Google released AppEngine SDK 1.2.5 which includes a major feature a lot of developers have been waiting for – XMPP support. What’s interesting and relevant for this post is that XMPP has it’s own quotas for the number of API calls, data sent, recipients messaged and invitations sent, and – none of these quotas are marked as...
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- Ivan Zuzak
This is the key quote from this well-thought-out post: "Secondly, although [FriendFeed] ended up being primarily used as a Twitter app/conversation hub, its owners didn’t really focus on this aspect of the service which would likely have been avenue for significant growth. For what I mean, look at the graph of unique users for sites that acted as adjuncts to Twitter versus FriendFeed’s which chose not to [go this route]."
- Alex Schleber
True, but when Twitter keels over so does twitpic. Which happens often.
- Ed F
I'm thinking that the Family Reunion would be PERFECT for a little paintball tourney! I suck at it, but it's SO much fun! (and the whelps go away after a while...)
- Scott Magdalein
Which browser do you normally use? :-)
- Todd Hoff
It's about frickin' time, Guy! You're the guy who handed Steve Balmer a Macbook Air as a symbol of good design and yet you've been using Twitter all this time? Either start using friendfeed or switch to using Dells. You can't have it both ways. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You missed out on the earlier days of FriendFeed, but then it's never too late to start using it.
- imabonehead
I don't think Guy understands he can write comments to his posts, instead of new posts to conversate
- Stephen Pickering
Welcome, we arent experts here but we manage to muddle through some how
- Robert Higgins
Alex: Can I get a Dell through you?
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy you just can't resist that Windows 7 can you :-)
- Stephen Pickering
congrats Guy! I think you'll like it :)
- Glenn Hilton
This is """literally""" the first time I commented on your feed. As always, welcome to new users such as yourself. Self + for my improper use of air qoutes.
- Eric - seven eleven
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I'm listening to Howard Dean and Bill Frist discuss Healthcare on Charlie Rose after hearing John Bolton on Jon Stewart destroy my mood about Iran, nuclear and WW3
- Myrna
Welcome here, maybe it takes people like you to bring the finesse of FriendFeed to the world! (can't let @scobleizer do all the work on his own, can you?)
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
now figure a way to have my friendfeed autopost alltop content, maestro!
- adam garrett
The Delicious Safari Plug-in cost $10. Wondering if Delicious & Safari on the mac is $10 better than the Free Firefox + Delicious combo.
- mrshl
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