Posts Tagged ‘twitter

The hip new shiny thing for a new company is to position themselves as a service. Stepping back from the hype machine for a minute, can you really identify a service provider when you see one? Or are the companies that sell themselves as services are actually tools. And what differentiates a tool provider from [...]

There is clear dissatisfaction with the current state of marketing among the social media mavens. Fred Wilson and Union Square Ventures are looking for companies to invest in to take advantage of this. BuzzLogic releases their conversational ad service. The Inquisitr moves from AdSense to Technorati Media, indicating a potential shift at b5 Media. Lookery [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]


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