Like polishing up an old wooden rocking chair, over the past several evenings I’ve been migrating an old Rails application. I was able to get the 3.1beta Rails app (sweet updates) working locally without much trouble. But it’s the first Heroku app I’ve migrated from the 1.8.7 stack to 1.9.2 Badious Bamboo, and it’s not quite ready for prime time.
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KnowAbout.it quietly earns client trust
What Middlemen Dream Of
Relevance has become Irrelevant
This morning I couldn’t resist the urge to air out my issue with relevance as an overloaded word.
Echo Chamber
Forget inbox zero, say hello to follow zero
Reorganizing my default follows onto a list. forget #inboxzero hello #followzero. Forces me to place context on twitter browsing
@VictusFate
Mark Essel
I finally did it.
I followed one too many people and got to the point where browsing twitter became unmanageable. I prefer to familiarize myself with a few sources and tune into their messages regularly, but what I’d done over time was accumulate more subscriptions than I could handle.
Anyone have a TARDIS I can borrow
Planning a daytrip
A talented web slinging friend of mine (not Spiderman) is developing a slick social interest filtering platform. I met with founder Kevin Marshall a couple of weeks back to get the inside scoop on KnowAbout.it, a young project he and Will Cole have been working tirelessly on refining into a must have social utility. After an hour of walking and freezing, we finally found a spot in a bookstore in lower Manhattan.
Twitter’s a business first, a social platform second
The background
UberTwitter was cut off from Twitter’s information pipeline yesterday and it impacted many users. There were three key violations of Twitter’s terms of service by UberMedia, all of which have now been corrected. But the disconnect was a clear message to partner companies and end users alike, Twitter will enforce the rules it setup to protect the quality of it’s user experience on or off site. According to Loic Le Meur, who’s intimately familiar with the social web landscape, UberMedia is responsible for the interface to 20% of all tweets sent daily so it’s a competitor to social news distribution, albeit a dependent one.
Startup Strategies that Survive, Prosper, and Win
Cross Platform App Strategies Elevate Beyond Cannibalistic Platforms
A significant portion of new media and tech companies are founded on platform access to both people and their data. Early on in the startup’s existence developers are encouraged to build on top of an API by minimizing barriers to entry and granting a broad range of access. Over time the walls go up and access is reigned in. Ecosystem contributors scout out high value services within a particular platform’s broader market, and as is often the case in immature markets, the platform devours its most promising offspring. I compared two simple categories of business trajectories in March last year. (more…)