http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/i-have-this-graph-up-on-my-screen-all.html
So now twitter wants to be all transparent with their problems… I dont think they really had much choice though. It seems they have been having problems all week long. But only now do they share that they really have no idea whats going on.
Honestly, a 4th quarter Neumont student could recreate a better performing twitter… you guys should make one.
And just to clarify, I might seem a bit odd that I dislike twitter so much yet I blog about it so much. I explained my reasoning to a friend a few nights ago… First, whenever twitter breaks its all over the blogs I read, ugh. Second, Twitter is so broke and such a simple service that I cant help wanting to slap someone and fix it myself.
Twitter, I’m available! Dont yell at me when I replace ALL your code with Asp.net MVC and SqlServer2k5 and I do it in a weekend.
I dont even know where to start! There are sooo many updates and new features. I’m really excited for the new Entity Framework coming out as well as the new Asp.net Routing Engine (aka Clean URLs & URL rewriting)!!
Check out Scott Gu’s blog for all the awesome details:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx
http://www.helloandroid.com/node/533
“Actually, if I recall correctly the judges are due to have their scores on the 100 back to us by Wednesday. Then we have to tabulate the scores, and I think the legal department has to finish their eligibility review (to make sure no submitters are known terrorists, and that sort of thing. ;)So I don’t think we’ll be able to announce anything before Wednesday. But as far as I know we are still on track to announce sometime next week.
- Dan”
Uuuugh. Just hurry up and tell us who won!
CNet News has reported that Twitter has recently signed for $15-$20 Million in VC funding…
“A source familiar with the negotiations tells me that Twitter signed a term sheet for “either $15 million or $20 million” last week. We’re still trying to find out who is in, but the word is that it’s largely an inside round of funding with one outsider setting the price.”
I am amazed at how companies with no business model in sight can get so much attention and so much funding while other companies that offer a real service are finding it difficult to get funded. Obviously some people think that just having a lot of people using your services makes it valuable. My guess is that Twitter will end up like YouTube. Some company will end up buying them and that company will have to take a hit and pay for whatever it costs to keep it online until they figure out some business model.
I hope you twitter fans like webpages 80% covered in Ads as well as Ads in your twitter feeds.
In other news, I have yet to figure out why people use Twitter.
“Cramer claims this product will revolutionize instant messaging the way Apple revolutionized the portable music industry with the iPod. Normally, one might just brush these comments aside as speculation or sheer lunacy. However, a patent, uncovered by AppleInsider today also points to advanced work Apple is doing on the instant messaging front — for the iPhone.”
http://venturebeat.com/2008/04/21/what-do-jim-cramer-kevin-rose-and-the-us-patent-office-know-about-im-on-the-3g-iphone/
An interesting article about Android’s mobile strategy. Check it out.
“Here we are months away from the launch of the first Android hardware, and Google along with the Open Handset Alliance is gearing up for the war against Apple and the vaunted iPhone. However, given the recent revelations regarding Google’s approach to quality control, or lack there of this war may be over before it even gets started.”
Check it out here! - http://androidguys.com/2008/04/21/why-the-iphone-is-poised-to-crush-android/
From the Google Android Blog:
“I’m thrilled to share the news that developers from over 70 countries submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge!
Here are a few facts that I thought were interesting. When we announced the Android Developer Challenge back in January, developers started submitting entries right away but it wasn’t until the April 14 deadline approached that the flood really began. The rate of submissions spiked in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, reaching as high as 170+ submissions per hour.”
Sideclicker is officially turned in! We completed what we could and turned our application in to Google yesterday. I hope we do well! If not, it was dang fun while it lasted. I feel pretty comfortable using the Android SDK and it was a great way to refresh my Java skills. It was also a great reminder of all the things I hate about Java!
So, if we win, dont worry… we’ll remember all the little people who helped us get there.
From SlashDot - http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/08/1932232
“iPhone developers enrolled and active in the iPhone OS 2.0 beta program got a nasty surprise today when Apple inadvertently ‘expired’ the recently released version. While for a beta program this typically would not be an issue, Apple has yet to release a new deployment of the iPhone OS. So developers like myself who use their iPhone for both actual phone and iPod use are bricked. Of note, this particular expired build is just 11 days old.”
My favorite blog put up a great article on Mobile web trends today. They have some great resources available and it gives a good perspective on where things are moving with the mobile web. The startups to watch was the most interesting to me, I’m definitely going to check out those sites…
The What’s Next section was also very interesting. But there’s one issue that I keep thinking about that will probably slow down development on applications that actually use some of those fancy technologies. I’m talking about hardware that the phone has but that the browser cant use! GPS, sensoring, biometics, image recognition, etc… most of these things will require the user to download and install an application to use the actual hardware on the device. I’m really curious to see how things develop. I own a phone with GPS built in and I wish there was a way to build a webapp that could access the user’s location (with permission of course).
Maybe its just me, but I sort of avoid downloading and installing things on my phone. And as a developer I would rather spend my time developing web applications that can be used by many different types of phones without having to make special releases for every make and model that exists.
ReadWriteWeb Mobile Web Trends
