Scripting NewsDave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution.Podcast with the Gnip guys- July 2, 2008 I caught up with Eric Marcoullier and Jud Valeski of Gnip in Eric's car, this afternoon. http:mp3.newsjunk.cominterviewWithGnip.mp3 Earlier today, on Scripting News, I asked Twitter to use Gnip to communicate with developers so the network can come back on. I wanted to find out if anything had come of it. Nothing had... Meanwhile, the guys believe there's no technical reason that Twitter can't turn back on all the services that were hooked into the XMPP gateway -- the protocol is designed for.http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/01/podcastWithTheGnipGuys.html I wish Twitter would partner with Gnip- July 1, 2008 Yesterday I wrote a teaser piece masquerading as a vision piece. The vision is not mine, it's Eric Marcoullier's, a very affable and brilliant entrepreneur from San Francisco, who founded MyBlogLog and sold it to Yahoo for big bucks a few years back. As we know Twitter is having scaling problems, and in fact, some of the problems are related to people pounding their API when they should just be getting the data through Gnip, Marcoullier's new startup. But Gnip didn't officially exist until 9AM..http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/01/iWishTwitterWouldPartnerWi.html A way for Twitter back in the pink- July 1, 2008 I'm not sure how much of the stress in Twitter is caused by the services that poll its API on behalf of thousands of users, but it's got to be a lot of work to service all those requests that are constantly coming in. Here's why it has so much work to do. When I post something to Twitter, within a couple of minutes it shows up on FriendFeed. I don't know for sure, but I bet that it's calling the Twitter API every few minutes to ask if Dave has posted something over there. Most of the time the...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/30/aWayForTwitterBackInThePin.html |