When you play with an 800-pound gorilla, sometimes, you have to accept that the gorilla will inadvertently stomp on you. After a couple months spent researching a possible strategic realignment, we have decided that it would not be reasonable to spend more time and money on Twitterified, at least not in its current incarnation. On April 4th 2010, Fred Wilson, [...]
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.twitterbox { border:1px dotted black; padding:4px; margin:0px 0px 4px 0px; } If you are drowning in Twitter updates or simply missed a few of my Tweets, here is a list of what I consider worth reading this week. By that, I mean that less interesting, personal and topical tweets are not in this list. This list will be published every [...]
Well, the title pretty much says it all: v1.3 is out and it’s an evolutionary release. Bug fixes – lots of ‘em Usability improvements, such as text overflow indicator Support for the awesome Present.ly Twitter-compatible protocol Get it while it’s hot! (If you are confused as to where to get it, all you need is to go to http://twitterified.com, log [...]
I should be able to release this new client tomorrow or day after tomorrow. I am currently battling a couple bugs with beta support for Present.ly: Time zone discrepancy: all posts appear as seven hours behind Avatars are too big! var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/presently.com\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://nexus.zteo.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “y”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL25leHVzLnp0ZW8uY29tL2Jsb2cvMjAwOS8wMy8xNi90d2l0dGVyaWZpZWQtY2xpZW50LXYxMy1hbG1vc3QtcmVhZHkvPHdwdGI%2BVHdpdHRlcmlmaWVkIENsaWVudCB2MS4zIEFsbW9zdCBSZWFkeTx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly9uZXh1cy56dGVvLmNvbTx3cHRiPlRoZSBOZXh1cw%3D%3D”;
I do not get it. I am a big fan of Smashing Magazine and I think that it was very nice of @jdevalk to write a plug-in that gives us full control over “Tweetbacks”. See this blog entry. Where Smashing Magazine and the author lose me, though, is that I have not seen any reaction, either on the magazine’s web [...]
Was your break as geeky as mine? Come on, admit it: you’ve done at least one incredibly unsexy thing in the last couple weeks. I know I have. Well, in fact, I had to take a four weeks-long break and it shows in the number of silly things I’ve played with. In no particular order: I improved this blog’s look [...]
Based on the very helpful feedback I received from the Twitterified client users, here is version 1.2′s log: – Multiple accounts support: – Multiple accounts using the same server – Accounts using multiple servers (Twitter, Identi.ca…) – Underlying architecture to eventually support any third-party server as long as they are compatible – Better error reporting – Better error recovery – [...]
I cannot believe that it took me so long to get my ducks in a row. First, Twitterified was entirely written in Javascript, like most AIR clients. But some testing showed that rewriting in AS3 would dramatically increase responsiveness. Then, I had to work on my web framework while creating twitterified.com. And finally I was only able to offer a [...]
A quick note: I was reading Techcrunch earlier today, when I realized that I could not reconcile their post “Twitter at scale: Will it work?” with my views on how to build a scalable application. Nick Cubrilovic contends that “Every new Twitter user and every new connection results in an exponentially greater computational requirement.” And yet, I fail to see [...]
