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Comment on Twitter Endgame? by Chris Hall

Chris Hall — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:49:04 +0000

Of course it not just Twitter, services like tinyurl also carry the same risk. Having said that in my experiance del.icio.us seems pretty reliable they must have invested in sufficient infrastructure.

I came across SMOB
http://www.johnbreslin.com/blog/2008/05/09/prototype-for-distributed-decentralised-microblogging-using-semantics/
an interesting looking little project, I haven’t tried installing or running in anger but it may be one way to take a little more control over your micro-blogging.

Comment on The Web Versioning genie needs to be re-bottled by Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:52:31 +0000

Comment on Twitter Endgame? by Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:25:05 +0000

I don’t think anyone’s said there isn’t something fundamentally wrong. It seems like they got into a bad place where the resources required to keep twitter running were equal to those needed to re-engineer.

Would people have been happy if twitter had gone down for a fortnight whilst they re-wrote? Do you think there’d be an audience by the time they came back? It’s a set of tough calls and they’re muddling through.

I definitely don’t think decentralisation is a good idea for this service, although I don’t discount it for a separate service. Also, it’s worth making clear that, as you imply, just because other people think the same thing, doesn’t make it true (argumentum ad populum innit).

Comment on Twitter Endgame? by Andy Davies

Andy Davies — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:38:32 +0000

I’m not sure decentralisation is the answer…

It appears Twitter wasn’t built to scale and there appear to be plenty of suggestions for how to fix that - whether they will work is another question of course.

Of course the real problem behind an alternative to Twitter is if I go will my friends go too?

Comment on Twitter Endgame? by Tim

Tim — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:02:56 +0000

Hi Phil,

I’d advise ignoring all content coming out of TechCrunch, on all topics.

I normally do ignore Techcrunch; the blog post there just came up when I searched for “Twitter decentralization” proving, if nothing else, that it’s not just me talking in such terms.

Spam followers might be bad, but why does it even bother you?

I block “spam” followers. Why do they bother me? I’m not sure, really. The whole “follow thousands of people in the hope that a small percentage follow back” thing pollutes the pond for the rest of us, in that I don’t suppose it can help the performance and uptime of the site.

Twitter being down a lot is a bad problem, but it can scale. They just haven’t done it.

But if the only way to scale is to do an IBM and “throw more iron at the problem”, isn’t there something fundamentally flawed in the system?

Comment on Twitter Endgame? by Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:18:22 +0000

I’d advise ignoring all content coming out of TechCrunch, on all topics.

Spam followers might be bad, but why does it even bother you?

Twitter being down a lot is a bad problem, but it can scale. They just haven’t done it.

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Tim

Tim — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:09:08 +0000

I’ve set up a forum to carry on the conversation:
http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/forum/forum.php?id=1

Come on over and chat about what you want to see in your ideal finance software on the Mac, or discuss specific packages.

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Tim

Tim — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:53:01 +0000

Jaap,

Can I ask you a favor, you mind filing your issue at
http://bugzilla.mthbuilt.com

Please explain the steps how to recreate your problem,
We will have it fixed in a jiffy

Many thanks

Tim

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Jaap

Jaap — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:16:43 +0000

A beta version My Money 2 of MTH is now available and I must say that, although buggy, it looks promising. Maybe more people can test it and publish their experiences.

Comment on Looking for Mac OS X personal finance software by Stephen van Scoyoc

Stephen van Scoyoc — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:25:53 +0000

Well, I came here looking for some budgeting software recommendations, but while I’m here I’ll comment on Nano Accounts, which I have been using for a number of years. Very simple, almost pencil and paperm, and it has been excellent. We run two businesses from it and have customised the accounts to match our IR tax forms. Customer support has been first rate and the only chink in the reliability I found was what appears to be a conflict with another program mentioned here–liquid ledger–which somehow seems to have destroyed my Nano Accounts data when both programs were up at the same time. The LL accounts also corrupted. Strangest thing I’ve ever seen and it’s never happened on my Mac in six years. Anyway, I highly recommend Nano Accounts if you are not interested in bells and whistles, just a reasonable way to keep accounts.