I know hundreds of keen Twitter users. We’ve been there since the start, and loved it all the way. However, it seems that now the huge media boom surrounding it, and other social networking systems, it’s struggling to keep up. Constantly being bombarded with excuses, errors and more does not help its user-count.
It’s a classic case of the developers doing the business-man’s job. Having received over $80 million in funding, and still unable to afford scalable servers is quite frankly a scare.
Twitter’s always been built on Ruby, from the …
Perhaps could have worded the title better, but it gets the message across. I just switched over to Feedburner (used to use in-house methods) to see what all the fuss was about. So, joined up and claimed my feed. Not too bad. I admit, I had to do it about three times, as it never seemed to save my details. Great! Now what?
This is the point where most bloggers that don’t have a web developer at their disposal stumble. Great, I’ve got my shiny new Feedburner account, and decided to …
I know many people on the internet, and surprisingly, many of them still aren’t aware of what the term viral means. I will take this opportunity to remind you that this phrase has no relation to physical health, and if you have such a condition, you have my condolences. Anyway, I wrote this article to explain the term to those unfamiliar with internet marketing, or simply don’t waste their time on the internet surfing around the most pointless websites.
So what is it?
Thanks to the Google dictionary for the following definitions:
Viral …
I would first like to start off by insulting BT, but I won’t despite the poor connection and general service, as in the end, they’re alright to most other customers I know. Then I want to introduce Sky Broadband. These guys are great. Built from the (as you can see below) Easynet infrastructure, they provide tonnes of bandwidth, on an incredibly fast connection.
7148kb/s is pretty impressive considering I am 50 miles from the exchange on a 8Mb/s connection. Technically speaking, they’re doing the impossible! I realised you probably wouldn’t enjoy …
Okay. So we all know YouTube has been playing around with the layouts. Lots of people in the twittersphere (and no, I don’t only write about twitter events) have a strong viewpoint on these changes, but this article is about the latest ‘beta’ update. Google has never been known for its amazing design taste, but this takes the biscuit (irritating English expression demonstrating the most extreme instance of the context - you know you love it really):
At the bottom of most videos is a new button, labelled *new* YouTube Player …