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It’s Not You, It’s Me
Sometimes business planning takes you to strange places. In my current quest for a co-founder I’ve been talking to many people and explaining what it is that makes microblogging great and what is not...
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More is Less is More
Here is a not so original and revolutionary idea – have services use the information they gather about you, your habits, and your interests to target content you will be likely interested in. This has...
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The Mundane Breaking News Cycle
Phil Barrett has an interesting post about the usefulness of Twitter and other microblogging sites: Having said that, some people have said that Twitter has become a hot newswire – industry insight and...
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Twitter is More than Just Twitter
Being critical of Twitter is really a compliment. It comes with the territory of being the market leader in a new space. My recent negative rants about the Twitter are really about how it is being used...
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The Slowest Tastiest Tweets
One of the things that makes Twitter stand out is their embrace of a technical limitation as a fundamental feature of their service. Using the 140 character limit imposed by mobile SMS messaging,...
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Playing with Numbers: What a Microblogging Service Financial Model Might Look...
Building a business out of a microblogging service is not a trivial task. There has been a lot of chatter regarding Twitter’s eventual monetization, but so far the only people who made money off...
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Scaling a Microblogging Service – Part I
When it comes to Twitter, everyone’s a critic. The irony is, the majority of the technical criticism written about Twitter reveals more about the lack of understanding of the author than anything about...
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Scaling a Microblogging Service – Part II
When discussing microblogging scalability, the conversation includes scaling each individual service, but also scaling the network and relationship between services. Part I discussed the challenges of...
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Scaling a Microblogging Service – Part III
There used to be a big difference between API access and regular human-oriented HTML access: the speed in which requests are made. When a request is made via a browser, there is inherit delay from...
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Microblogging Earthquakes
Twitter recently added a very cool and somewhat unproductive way of what I call strolling the social graph (a technical term some folks really don’t like, but offer no good replacement). It is called...
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