"I wrote that not building an application for Twitter XMPP was an extremely wise decision. I only mentioned that Apple brings up the issue again.
As for taking a moment to validate whether an app will be worthwhile or allowed on a platform before investing time and money... It's fool hardy to recommend diving in without analysis." - Sol Young
"I almost did a Twitter XMPP app. Similar to search.twitter.com, but an intelligently parsed topic based XMPP rebroadcasted flow.
The instability made me question the reliability I could offer others. Choosing not to build that service has been an extremely wise decision. If they prove reliable later, we'll see.
With Apple's licenses and recent moves therein, I'm faced with a similar issue (I'll keep the app a secret for now).
It's nice to be the 800 pound gorilla, but you should be good to the people with bananas." - Sol Young
"Damn, I missed that part of the conversation! Would have liked to heard the gossip... I like to hear interesting news, but am likewise disgusted by someone slamming something without evidence." - Sol Young
"That's a good point. Webkit compatibility isn't so hot. I've had to use
Firefox instead of Opera or Safari (Webkit nightly builds) in order to use
Google Docs, Evernote, and even my own blog's Wordpress admin.
With fixes for compatibility of Chrome, developers will automatically make
Safari and Webkit nightlys compatible." - Sol Young
"Completely agree. We're a rev away from those features being
implemented. A Chrome 2.0 would likely include the zoom features.
Since it's so open I don't think they'll stop plugins like that, but
you've got a point... The company who makes the most revenue off of
search just made a browser..." - Sol Young
"I would argue that you're right about people using what is installed,
but I disagree about Firefox... FF is great, but not great enough to
justify ditching IE. At this point IE vs FF vs Opera vs Safari is just
preference.
This is kind of like Lycos vs Yahoo vs Infoseek... And then came
Google with a search engine that screamed.
When you can run GMail 2 to 10 times faster (not to mention every
other web app), Chrome shows signs of chipping away at browser share
much like Google Search chipped away at search share.
Still, the question is how quickly it will happen. And since Chrome is
open source, the other browsers shouldn't be far behind in
implementing the same performance improvements." - Sol Young
"Thanks Chad for finding it (and thanks @hidama for connecting us!). There's
a lot of great things that could be done here, and hopefully before the
service becomes too painful to use. Right now there are a couple bad apples,
but it could get ugly in a hurry.
The block feature is fine, but it only applies to the person blocking. It
doesn't do any good for alerting others, which makes it useless ultimately
in doing good for others. What really needs to be out there is an alert or
personal ranking system.
Twitter + personal security certificate = awesome mashup.
Again, glad to have met you virtually and thanks again @hidama.
Cheers!
Sol" - Sol Young
"I never follow them. Perhaps a spam registry service that various
Twitter clients integrate. akismet wouldn't work at that point, but a
webmail service could be interesting." - Sol Young
"Identi.ca has a long ways to go before the population will like them more than Twitter. - SMS: Both unorganized (comes from a different sender each time) and ugly (it looks like a Outlook or Exchange email coming in with "Subj", etc.) It's not elegant at all. - Finding people: Ability to find the people you wish to follow is extremely difficult. The only way to do so is to dig through other people's contacts. - Ease of adding people. JavaScript actions for adding people rather than hard links make it 1 or 2 more clicks to add someone than Twitter. May not seem like much, but neither did Google's 0.03 ms search time (at least to Microsoft). - Integration with other services? There's no obvious links or information on how to tie services together. Perhaps this is coming, but nowhere on the site does it actually describe this. For now I think Identi.ca is not elegant and feels like nothing more than a clone. If there are layers underneith, that's terrific for developers... But there are..." - Sol Young
"If it's a way to keep spammers in check, it's not going to work (http://solyoung.com/2008/08/12......). It's a piece of cake to continue spamming. It would be incredibly short sighted if the folks at Twitter did it for this reason.
With their queueing system, the load is on the status delivery. I could understand limiting the number of people who can follow someone else. That makes sense to me... 10,000 SMSs to send is a very large number, especially if Scoble gets chatty and those 10,000 have to be sent a few times per minute." - Sol Young
"Thanks Hidama - I'm done abating (over 10,000 mouse clicks later). The
trickle now is manageable in the sense I can read and respond without
getting out of the stream... No more risk of drowning.
I'm going to miss it." - Sol Young
"I'm sincerely surprised that nobody else latched on to that after reading Dave's post. This isn't something to plan in a week or month, this is something to do now.
Dave, you need a stronger call to action. Give a specific date or get folks rallying today. Keeping the pressure high is a good thing." - Sol Young
"Carry a cigarette lighter pump in your car. It only weighs a couple pounds, keeps you mentally aware (whenever you open your trunk), and is immediately available when you have a moment to use it." - Sol Young
"I take the train depending on weather and timing - might drive. We can get a
thread going on the Facebook group about carpooling though.
I've moved the Geek Dinner to the first Wednesday so people can make use of
$1.00 parking at the Ritz East garage and so we don't overlap the agile
developer group." - Sol Young
"Steven, sure, we'd love to have you. You'll have to participate, but we'd love to have you.
The next Geek Dinner is Wednesday, September 3rd at 7pm." - Sol Young
