Everyone is entitled to my opinion
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2008
People are blogging and commenting on Twitter’s blog about Twitter’s current degraded service status. I will admit to being torn about this. Being a developer myself, I know the kinds of strange and inscrutable things computer systems will do for no apparent reason. I myself have a website that I haven’t done much with lately, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22nd, 2008
There has been a lot of discussion today both on Twitter and in the blogosphere about @arielwaldman‘s lack of success in getting Twitter to enforce its terms of service regarding harassment and abuse. This is the most visible TOS incident due to her name recognition, but there have been less publicized incidents involving @Dayngr and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2008
I like “unconferences” like PodCamps and BarCamps. These are conferences that are user-generated, the meeting equivalent of open-source software. They’re usually no or low charge and there’s no profit-making agenda behind them. Their purpose is to bring people together to help each other out. Sessions are done by attendees, as opposed to “big name” invited [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2008
BarCampBoston3 I had the pleasure of speaking at BarCampBoston3 this past Saturday in Cambridge, MA on the topic “Distributed Twitter”. This was a well-attended event and the geek energy was high! BarCamps attract and cater to hard-core coders and implementers. Not many marketing, PR or media types were in evidence, but there were quite a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2008
Waiting to be seated for what turned out to be just elegant sushi at Haruki East in Providence last Friday night, Hilary Mason and I were chatting about my current interest of trying to create an open and distributed Twitter-like microblogging design. “I’m concerned that might destroy the Twitter community”, she said. I was somewhat [...]
Posted in development, Uncategorized on May 6th, 2008
If you don’t read all of this admittedly long post, please do skip to the end and check out the BarCampBoston info. I’ll be holding a session there on the topic of Distributed Microblogging. Ok, so let’s talk about the hard bits of doing Distributed Microblogging. It’s easy to envision a multitude of servers exchanging [...]
Posted in development, Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008
I want to quickly set down a high-altitude view of how I see a Distributed Twitter working. This should give you the basic concept, which I’ll then elaborate in more detail in subsequent posts. First of all, let’s call it something more generic. I like Distributed MicroBlogging or DMB. The “Distributed” part is really the [...]
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