Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
8 May 2008In the GigaOm blog today, Allen Leinwand puts up a monstrous wake-up call to all the hip and cool Web 2.0 companies out there: Your apps run across the Internet [here].
I have spent 9 years investigating, diagnosing, and validating the Web performance issues of companies. I can tear the Web performance data of a site [...]
In: Technology
26 Sep 2006I was futzing around with my WRT54G(L) last night and did something wrong. I thought I had bricked the damn thing. Much cursing and swearing ensued as I put a BEFSX41 on the front-end of the network (I have three of these; don’t ask why) and wandered upstairs with the lump of black and blue [...]
In: Blogging| Life| Notebook Lust| Technology| Work| smp
22 Aug 2006The last 4 weeks have been extremely traumatic for me. It has culminated in an extended period of renewal, reflection and rejuvenation, where I have looked back over the last 15 years of my life and asked, “What next?”.
An interesting note on the word rejuvenation: it means to reclaim your childlike state (ok, I’m playing [...]
In: Web Performance
21 Jul 2006Dear Flickr:
I have been wondering for sometime why downloads from your site seemed a little sluggish at times.
At first I blamed your unprecedented growth and success. For a little Vancouver startup (I am a BC boy myself), your entrance onto the stage of social networking applications has been phenomenal. The move from zero to infinity [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
29 Oct 2005I have been getting Partial File errors out of cURL on the Agent that is running on my home network. These started at around 16:15 EDT October, 28, 2005. This is why the availability for this measurement is running at around 50%.
Now, did the folks at Feedster make a networking/server change around that time?
Technorati: feedster
IceRocket: [...]
In: RANTING
2 Apr 2005This is the latest and greatest in social networking/blogging/picture trading/auction/online marketplace/p2p/moblogging/brand awareness Web apps… [here]
…FREAKIN’ NOT!
Thanks for finding this Joi!
In: smp
21 Mar 2005It is interesting working in a post-bubble company, watching the companies on the edge of the newly expanding bubbles of search, Web services, blogging and social networking start to try and find ways to link and grow together.
Ask, after buying Bloglines, gets acquired by IAC. Yahoo acquires Flickr. MSN has Spaces; Microsoft buys a file-sharing [...]
In: smp
16 Feb 2005Jeremey Wright hints at some of the features we might/will see in MSIE 7.0. [here]
Again, composition and design standards are important; but do not forget the networking standards as well. It will take a lot for me to switch back to MSIE, but it would be good to if the Internet doesn’t have to design [...]
That is not a typo. The great man spoke the words today. [here and MSFT Press Release and here and here and here and here
and here and here]
Will it be better…?
The quote:
Building on those advancements, Gates announced Internet Explorer 7.0, designed to add new levels of security to Windows XP SP2 while maintaining the level [...]
In: Technology| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
14 Dec 2004Service Level Agreements (SLAs) appear to finally be maturing in the realm of Web performance. Both of the Web performance companies that I have worked for have understood their importance, but convincing the market of the importance of these metrics has been a challenge up until recently.
In the bandwidth and networking industries, SLAs have been [...]