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It's Not Rocket Science, But It's Our Work

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The general public is fascinated with every bug that pops up on board the Mars Phoenix Lander because no matter how small, they always seem mission critical. It's exciting stuff and we hang on every bit of news. Will NASA scientists find a wo… (visit source article)
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Web Worker Daily  says…

How Twitter Could Crash and Burn

Twitter remains one of our favorite services here at WWD. Just about all of us use it for casual “water-cooler” conversation, as well as for asking questions of the lazyweb and keeping track of our friends (and even family). But recently thi…

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life  says…

Will Twitter be the Next Friendster?

Recently the folks behind Twitter came clean on the architecture behind the service and it is quite clear that the entire service is being held together by chewing gum and baling wire. Only three MySQL database servers for a se…

IT Project Failures  says…

Rescuing Twitter’s trainwreck

Twitter's problems continue and are not likely to be fixed for months. The system's fundamental architecture is flawed, management is grasping at straws to figure out what's wrong, and hiring qualified folks takes time. Regardless of the sign…

mathewingram.com/work  says…

Twitter and the importance of architecture

The Twitter guys have been getting a lot of flak over the past few months (and rightly so, in many cases) for the unreliability of their app. But I think they should get some props for opening up and talking about what’s going on over there. …

socialized  says…

Socialized exclusive: leaked Twitter Q&A

Michael Arrington recently credited Twitter for being “constructively responsive to criticism,” citing a post on the Twitter blog in which the beleaguered company responds to a TechCrunch post asking about Twitter’s IT strategy. You can see T…

Robert Synnott  says…

Twitter tells all

Here's a disarmingly honest, yet embarassing, post about Twitter's recent brokenness from their official blog.Choice quote:Q: Is it true that you only have a single master MySQL server running replication to two slaves, and the architecture d…

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs  says…

Twitter Struggles With Downtime, While Fending Off Irked A-List Bloggers

Twitter is coming off a rough couple of weeks. The service seemed to be down more often than up, and had to switch off services like SMS and instant messaging in order to throttle demand on its servers. If that wasn't enough, the…

Mashable!  says…

Better Days Ahead For Twitter? We’ll see.

Twitter hasn’t been the shining star to its membership it once was. An increasingly common refrain heard by critics is one which comically portrays pertinent news as when the service is up, rather than down. (If it’s active, hurray. If not, w…

socialized  says…

New clear Twitter tech days from Arrington, Washington Post

In an attempt to show that he is holding Twitter’s technological feet to the fire for their recent IT meltdown, Michael Arrington, in a brief article in yesterday’s Washington Post, poses the tough question: “Is it true that you only have a …

Sententia Profusum  says…

It's Not Rocket Science, But It's Our Work

It's Not Rocket Science, But It's Our Work: The general public is fascinated with every bug that pops up on board the Mars Phoenix Lander because no matter how small, they always seem mission critical. It’s exciting stuff and we…

SMC:posts  says…

Socialized exclusive: leaked Twitter Q&A

Michael Arrington recently credited Twitter for being “constructively responsive to criticism,” citing a post on the Twitter blog in which the beleaguered company responds to a TechCrunch post asking ...

ben barren - rss'ing down under  says…

hypergrowth problems better than stagnation.

I think most of us, if being honest would give nearly everything, to have the problems that twitter does - so many users of a unique product that are causing a stack of technical challenges : with $15m to solve the problems. With always on fr…

Valleywag  says…

Twitter's existential crisis a masterwork of fingerpointing [Nerdfight]

Twitter's founders are waging a behind-the-scenes war with Blaine Cook, the blogging service's former chief architect. The subject: Who's responsible for the service's perpetual outages. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington ran a series of leading …

Data Center Knowledge  says…

Twitter: Betting It All on The Apple TweetStorm

Twitter has thrown down the gauntlet - to itself - in a bid to regain the confidence of its frustrated users. The popular microblogging service has taken a beating for months for its continuing downtime, which has undermined much of its buzz …

WebGuild  says…

Stop Me Before I Twitter About Twitter Again!

At the risk of correctly being called a hypocrite for writing about something I'm very sick of hearing other people write about I'm checking in to say I am nauseated by the length, breadth, and depth of Twitter coverage, especially by those t…

David Dalka - Creating Revenue and Retention - Chicago GSB MBA  says…

Twitter Question

A question to add to all of these posts asking Twitter questions: Will the AIM interface ever be fixed? I found posting from IM to be the easiest and fastest method, it’s been broken (or blocked by AIM?) for months dating back to 2007. What i…

Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants  says…

When you don't listen to the tech staff

Dare Obasanjo has connected all the dots behind the Twitter problems, and noted that the management failure there could sink the company into the same pit that Friendster fell into: Recently the folks behind Twitter came clean on the arch…

TomsTechBlog.com  says…

Open Source At All Costs

A couple days ago I posted on a TechCrunch post that "called out" Twitter on their architecture.  Twitter responded here with a pretty standard "things are screwed up but we're trying real hard to fix it" post.  I don't have a probl…

TomsTechBlog.com  says…

Open Source At All Costs

A couple days ago I posted on a TechCrunch post that "called out" Twitter on their architecture.  Twitter responded here with a pretty standard "things are screwed up but we're trying real hard to fix it" post.  I don't have a prob…

Service Untitled  says…

How to Respond to Criticism: Twitter Style

Twitter is the poster child of Web 2.0. It’s pretty hip, it’s innovative, it’s grown exponentially, and despite having no clear business model, is considered to be extremely successful. I don’t use Twitter personally, but I know plenty of pe…

Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2  says…

The Passion of Twitter

About the only subject that engenders more passion than the Presidential Follies these days is Twitter and its ups and downs. Actually, sad to say, there is probably more passion in more circles about Twitter than there is about the...

Artima Developer Buzz  says…

When you don't listen to the tech staff

Dare Obasanjo has connected all the dots behind the Twitter problems, and noted that the management failure there could sink the company into the same pit that Friendster fell into: Recently the folks behind Twitter came clean on the archite…

DI^2 - Data, Insights and Ideas  says…

Does Anyone Still Read TechCrunch?

cubicle17: TechCrunch directs some shockingly snarky questions at Twitter. Twitter responds in a very calm, radically transparent way, and TechCrunch appends this to their post: Update: Twitter continues to be annoyingly and constructivel…

The Hermes Project  says…

New approach from Twitter

Micro-blogging site Twitter, which seems over-run with performance problems at the moment due to load - it must be weeks now since I've been able to use the IM functionality to update my profile - is changing their approach as a business goin…

3by9  says…

Launches - not the most important thing

This is a topic I’ve been meaning to discuss for a long time and it applies since we are experiencing something similar with the new sites. Launches are important to the owner because it marks a milestone of a level of completion. Many compan…

dailytechnews.info  says…

Linkpost | 6.1.2008

• Can Anything Replace My Old Reliable Friend? — NYTimes looks at Comcast’s telephone service. • Free WiFi at Starbucks pours on Tuesday, foam is extra — AT&T taking over Starbucks’s Wi-Fi later this week? • Why Macs still aren’t right for mo…

dailytechnews.info  says…

Linkpost | 6.1.2008

• Can Anything Replace My Old Reliable Friend? — NYTimes looks at Comcast’s telephone service. • Free WiFi at Starbucks pours on Tuesday, foam is extra — AT&T taking over Starbucks’s Wi-Fi later this week? • Why Macs still aren’t right for mo…

AlterSlash  says…

An Imaginative Use For CCTVs

and it’s since transpired that most of it was fake. Taxis generally don’t have CCTV in them.

AlterSlash  says…

Bye Bye Bananas — the Return of Panama Disease

While this might not seem so serious to consumers in the U.S., in fact the banana family (including plantains) is the 4th largest food staple crop in the world (or at least it was several years ago when I was researching the banana industry f…

AlterSlash  says…

Canadian Group Files Facebook Privacy Complaint

Facebook is not a good site for the privacy concious. My friend always maintained that the one thing that orwell didn’t forsee is that people would pay for and maintain their own cameras.

AlterSlash  says…

RedOffice 4.0 Beta Updates OpenOffice UI

Back when I tried the Alpha version of Lotus Symphony, I really liked the UI and the fact that I could import WordPro documents (as we’re standardized on *shudder* Lotus WordPro here at work). What I didn’t like was that Symphony would change…

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