Tag: social media
Followers, hit-counts, and the Attention Economy
Since I migrated the blog back to my own servers a few days ago, I have realized something: I have fallen back to my old habit of watching the hit count.
This is weird, considering the lack of interest I had in my blog and its stats over the last year or so. But having my [...]
Posted: August 8th, 2008 under Commentary.
Tags: attention, Attention Economy, followers, hits, social media
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identi.ca and Penalty of Success
The latest “rage” flooding through the social-media world is identi.ca, a Twitter-like micro-blogging service that is built on open-source servers and code.
As with anything that becomes an overnight sensation, the problems of success tend to follow. Using GrabPERF, I have been monitoring the HTML download time of my personal message stream. The results have been [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Life.
Tags: GrabPERF, identi.ca, jaiku, Orkut, performance, pownce, social media, twitter, Web Performance
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Outages and the Power of Social Media
Lately, there have been outages for two large sites: Amazon and Facebook. Working for a company that monitors such things made me able to confirm the nature of the outages. But how I became aware of them has had me thinking in new ways for the last few weeks.
I became aware of both of these [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2008 under Web Performance.
Tags: conversation, customers, friendfeed, interaction, performance issues, social media, twitter
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