Farmville’s epic rise… and fall?
Building something atop someone else’s platform is a risky move. Whether it be Apple’s closed development system, Twitter’s API or Facebook’s application platform, any changes to the architecture or...
View ArticleTwitter’s ‘accept’ a feature, but also a bug.
What happens when an undocumented feature exposes a larger problem in a site the size of Twitter? A Turkish man who is a fan of the ban Accept attempted to post his like of the band by tweeting the...
View ArticleCould Twitter suffer Friendster’s fate?
In a posting called “Do you have fail whale fatigue?”, my colleague Jamie DeLoma applauded Twitter’s engineers a few days ago for being so upfront about the problems they’re having and what they are...
View ArticleA slightly more transparent Twitter.
Twitter’s management, in an effort to make outages more transparent, is now including a link to their status blog on the infamous “fail whale” page to help people understand what’s going on. I still...
View ArticleRobyn’s interactive music video.
While I’m incredibly passionate about music (sometimes more so than even technology), I choose not to focus on that here, especially since we have some good people on staff who have a deeper and...
View ArticleWest Coast dudes are happier than East Coast bros.
When researchers run out of things to do, apparently they analyze tweets. That’s the only way I can explain this item. Researchers analyzed 300 million tweets to try to learn a bit about us as a human...
View ArticleCell phone autocorrection: A blessing or a curse?
An article on Slate talks about the evolution of auto-correction software, how it’s getting better and how most implementations now learn over time that, for instance, my name is Josh. It also...
View ArticleGoogle’s real-time search experiment.
Search engines are great for finding out data, but they can lag when breaking news happens. After all, they have to index data before they can actually provide results to it. Google has released its...
View ArticleUniversity cuts students off from Facebook for a week.
If the privacy issues haven’t chased you away from Facebook yet, chances are you aren’t going to leave willingly anytime soon. One university is therefore testing what happens when you force students...
View ArticleTwitter’s redesign hopes to make service ‘faster, easier and richer.’
Twitter this week announced a site redesign, rolling out over the coming weeks, which will put more information at your fingertips on twitter.com, as well as allowing direct embedding of certain media...
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