Programming and politics

So you might have heard this week that there's this new social networking thing (*yawn*) called Google+ . That's right, it's fr...

This is the kind of posting that needs a disclaimer. I'm going to talk a little about recent changes at Facebook and Twitter, but strict...

There are 72 days left in the Aughties, y'know the current decade: 2000 - 2009. I was looking back at the decade, and what are its most ...

Today I was attending a talk on Scala Actor by Phillipp Haller and Frank Sommers. Tyler asked me to live blog it. I thought that was a good...

Twitter recently created social graph APIs . You can get the friends or followers of a given user. This information was available in other w...

I have updated the Twitter ActionScript API . I added support for search. You are probably aware that search is provided by Summize, who was...

Yeah, I'm a John Legend fan, but that's not the reference here. The reference is to Lift , the web application for Scala. Today IBM ...

Funny post by @al3x about Twitter architecture. Oh wait it wasn't supposed to be funny, oops. The fact is that he should totally expect...

No Twitter running off the Rails discussion tonight. One reason I write about Twitter is because I really value the service.  It was particu...

Another week, another Twitter outage ... and a new round of technology questions and rumors. TechCrunch now thinks that Twitter is abandonin...

Today TechCrunch "reported" that Blaine Cook has left Twitter . I had the pleasure of interviewing Blaine and his fellow Twitter d...

I noticed that the Twitter ActionScript API was a bit out of date to say the least. I had to update it for a small project I was playing ar...

In case you missed the news , Flock finally went 1.0 late last month. I've been playing around with Flock for over a year. They're i...

Now I know why Twitter is so slow. It was built using Ruby on Rails . That explains so much.

Dave Winer wonders about creating an open source Twitter . I've done some musings previously on the mechanics of Twitter . In short it w...

If there's one way to describe Twitter so far it's slow. I guess that's a good sign for them. I'm going to assume they must ...

I've been very interested in Dave Winer 's recent musings on Twitter. I had originally thought that Twitter seemed like something on...