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• Failing to Scale  Years ago, Google did something brave, bold, and innovative. They opened up GMail to a miniscule number of people and gave them a couple handfuls of invites to share with others. At the time, I assumed that strategy was as much about marketing as about scaling the service up. These days - when the
• Friday, April 13, 2007 2:07:46 PM Twitter Tools sends a tweet every time I update a post. I really dig that since I’ve been updating (rather than writing new) lately. I find it especially useful for posts that have fallen off the RSS feed.
• What’s He Building in There? Doing some testing today and I felt bad for not posting anything in nearly a week. I’ve been building. Steady. Til midnight or 2am for the past week. And it’s coming together real nicely, so I’m trying to keep up the momentum up through this coming week. Until I get back to a more frequent posting schedule… Here’s the
• I’m hesitant to build too much on top of… I’m hesitant to build too much on top of Twitter. Not just because of their historic instability, but because they’re a single silo - and each day brings a yet another silo. With Ququoo.com, I’m relying on Twitter for registration. With the Twittergram work I’m doing, it’s that and a little bit more. Unlike
• Dave just did something I’ve been thinki… Dave just did something I’ve been thinking on and off about for a while now: Twitter meets podcasting. Behold - the promise of podcasting as voicemail….of _actually_ having a conversation via the ’space phone’. I think I’ll dust off the FastCast idea after dinner tonight. So the FastCast workflow tweaked for Twittering: Record via Audio Hijack Pro