Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
For FriendFeed has become my replacement for Google Reader, which I only visit occasionally now to see if there are blogs I need to add to my feed. But, if you are going to replace a reader with FriendFeed, how do you manage the flow of content. While tools will likely improve over time, I [...]
Yes, it’s YATPBP (Yet Another Twitter Performance Blog Post). About 10 days ago, I turned GrabPERF loose on Twitter. Now before you accuse this of crippling the service and bringing it to its knees, realize that GrabPERF simply requests a document over HTTP about two times a minute. No additional requests are made for images [...]
When FireFox 1.0 was released, the sites hosting this eagerly awaited software effectively were overwhelmed by the number of users attempting to download it. A colleague of mine referred to it as a Success Failure. What is that? It simply means that you have been so successful at getting the word out and getting people [...]
Those who saw me at the edge of the A-list (B-list? are those terms valid anymore? I am so out of touch) circle during the first wave of the blog explosion saw me flag and then fall. But where did I go? What did I do? I left town, essentially. Mentally. I had to go [...]