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Twitter Updates for 2008-07-29

Alex — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:59:59 +0000

Cornell study links toddler TV watching to autism - http://www.slate.com/id/2151538/ - absolute must-read. [View]

Alex — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:59:59 +0000

First off, it’s great to see Twitter being up on an iPhone launch day, especially one where all hell has apparently broken loose… [View]
… Gizmodo has already coined a new term for it: The iPocalypse. Cute. So all those 1st gen iPhone owners upgrading the firmware are… [View]
… crashing the servers and are thereby preventing the iPhone 3G activations… while "bricking" their own existing iPhones in hanging… [View]
… upgrade loops. & new 3G owners have to escape the store with their own "iBricks", hoping that they’ll be able to activate later 2day… [View]
Frankly, anyone paying attention should have known to 1) not step in the way of the stampeding iPhone 3G crowd with their firmware upgrade.. [View]
… (the annual Pamplona "Running of the Bulls" is going on right now as well, hehe. How appropriate)… and 2) not to risk their phone… [View]

Alex — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:59:59 +0000

MSFT just got the bag handed to them with the Goo-hoo outsourcing deal, now their left holding it… no clear strategy foward, nada… [View]
…get the details of the conference call over at TechCrunch or SAI - http://is.gd/wfO Y! may well have just hardened itself in this crisis. [View]
Now the unknown variable is whether Jerry can tighten up the ship enough to do something useful/innovative with the newfound $. Here is an.. [View]

Alex — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:59:59 +0000

Twittercasting from Ben Mack/Dr. Cialdini interview call… Ben is grilling him pretty good already, that was a brief "interview honeymoon". [View]
1st thing they started with (during the easy part) was that Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s right hand man, appt’ly has been recommending.. [View]
… Dr. Cialdini’s work. Dr. C describes how there has been scientific, incontrovertible proof regarding the persuasiveness of requests. [View]

Alex — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:59:59 +0000

For anyone interested in cloud computing & why Twitter needs to grow up - fast, this is a must-read on Google architecture http://is.gd/oJ4 [View]
BTW, the results are in as to how much of a gimmick Microsoft’s "new" Live Search Cashback program really is: Out of 4 featured items, 2 … [View]
…were cheaper on Google without the phony LSCB "discounts" (which MSFT is nice enough to hold in escrow for you for 1-2 months no less)… [View]

Alex — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

A slightly hobbled TechCrunch live-cast from MSFT conference underscores how little Bill Gates has learned about the internet in 13 years… [View]
… he goes on and on about how "search is a good thing… information at your finger tips"… Gee, ya think? Todays Live Search Cashback… [View]
… announcement is simply pathetic from a tech competitiveness perspective: It’s like waving a big white flag at Google: We give up… [View]

Alex — Wed, 07 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

there is so much unqualified commentary out on Yahoo-MSFT 2day, it’s hard to think straight: most don’t get search, SEO, PPC, monetization [View]
cont’d: almost no one understands the per-search monetization gap & falsely mixes it up with scale. If they were right, Y! wouldn’t b able 2 [View]
cont’d: profitably (like 60-80%+) outsource ad serves to GOOG, as just tested/proposed. Heck, most of the commentators don’t get ad serves. [View]

Alex — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

just got some major insights into security issues with Wordpress..working on porting over key fixes that came with 2.5 into 2.3.3 [View]
cont’d: so’s to avoid upgrading (maybe I’ll never upgrade and run a renegade 2.3.3 "i" branch).. yeah, I’m evil like that.. [View]
cont’d: in case you didn’t know it, there’s plenty wrong with Wordpress 2.5.x - check out the fall-out here: http://is.gd/bMn [View]

Alex — Thu, 01 May 2008 04:59:59 +0000

Did Arrington just miss the biggest key point out of his own (excellent) interview with Citi Analyst Mahaney re: Micro-hoo? [View]
cont’d: It wasn’t mentioned as a highlight in the post itself (the summary),but some1 alerted me 2 it in a comment over at the Alley Insider [View]
cont’d: "[vs.] Google - that the [..] monetization gap was 60-70%. That’s the 1st time we’d heard [..] Yahoo sign off on this specific gap." [View]

Alex — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:59:59 +0000

@Scobleizer this is great, proves both the 80/20 Principle, as well as Check Move Theory as evangelized by @Ed_Dale [View]
@Scobleizer cont’d: threw the data from that page in2 a spreadsheet, proves 80/20 - 64/4 - 51/1 recursion: [View]
@Scobleizer cont’d: the 6 top people out of 520 have 1/3 of total "tweets x followers" connections, 22 have 55%, 110 have 87%. Always works. [View]

Alex — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:59:59 +0000

check out the brouhaha over at the Wordpress.org forum: "2.5 Backend annoying" (and I agree) - http://tinyurl.com/6ldcl7 #
post on "Why I am not upgrading to Wordpress 2.5" will be forthcoming very soon… 2.5 is dumbed down from a power-user perspective… #
just listened to a Schefren call with Shawn Casey &Tellman Knudson promoting their new Listbuilding Series due out 2morrow, good stuff there #
Wordpress is still stubbornly refusing to fix the HTML tag screw-up issue. The fix, comment out ALL of wpautop in wp-includes/formatting.php #
cont’d: except the last line "return $pee;" .. oh yeah & use FCKE Editor plugin for your WYSIWIG editor..I don’t get why they won’t fix it. #
cont’d: more threads have been started on the WP support forum about this than anything else, & nothing but lame excuses ever comes back :( #

Alex — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:59:59 +0000

@lynnterry thx for the cache tip..better than nothing..when is Twitter going 2 get it 2gether? It’s called testing & backing out releases.. #
@WarrenWhitlock quite the response on the GetSatisfaction forum, with many frowns :( Biz Stone et al. have some growing up 2 do… #
cont’d: it’s called 2ndary runtime environment testing, & option to roll back a proposed release if it fails… u know, kid stuff… #
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