Archives for August, 2009
Nitpicking: development, agile and otherwise
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Earlier today I twittered as follows: It means I wasted a couple of hours with the API this morning, but I just heard that a @songkick feature I really want is in QA…sweeet! Thanks to my ego-tastic monitoring processes, shortly thereafter I became aware of an indirect response to that tweet, along the lines of [...]
Reconsidering Facebook
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Being a quick brain dump, since the Internet does not exist where we’re staying in Claryville, NY. Before we left Brooklyn I was thinking about Foursquare; I think what Jon Steinberg and crew have done with Social Great is really interesting, but it’s not the direction that really excites me about the potential of the [...]
A Couple of Needles for a Tiny Thread
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
So if you’re on Twitter, you are almost certainly aware by now that Joshua Schachter (of del.icio.us fame) just launched a personal project called A Tiny Thread. It’s a nice idea: piggyback off of the Twitter identity system [and take note of that, identity/SSO geeks] and create conversation spaces. This neatly and rather elegantly addresses [...]
The Twitter That Was
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Let’s start with a couple of interesting links: first, Nate Westheimer’s post from a few weeks ago in which he notes that his own Twitter use (and that of a number of other once heavy Twitterers) has been declining over the past few months. The full post and chart are here [and you should take [...]
