this morning techcruch decided to roundup folks waxing philosophical about the scalability problems with twitter, and decentralizing twitter by creating some new web site or service. and that’s entirely the problem with their thinking.
why their approaches will not work
people are thinking of this as a web problem. twitter is not a web problem. the trouble [...]

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by mike
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ah, Microsoft’s online division. so proud. so costly. their readership can largely be attributed to forcing the MSN homepage into the default browser of corporate IT managed workstations. now, all they need to take on Google is a good search engine. wait, what?
i was watching the moderately-local news this morning, and the big lead-in to [...]

Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by mike
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if it had happened to me only once today, i would have let it slide. but this is twice. shame on you!
if you are a meeting organizer, and you actually want people to attend your dial-in meeting, you need to meet one of the following criteria:

configure your conference call dial-in # so that it does [...]

Posted on June 26th, 2007 by mike
Filed under: business | 3 Comments »