…incident and the ensuing fallout , the emails — but notably, no tweets, Facebook comments or any sort of messages delivered in the open - have been trickling in, asking what my thoughts on the matter were, given that:
I've been a developer evangelist for about a decade , and
My reputation for having a ribald sense of humour.
My answer: wait .
With the intersection of a lot of "hot button" issues: privacy, privilege, sexism, racism, …
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…at the end of the 24-hour sampling period: Tablet Number of "First time on this tablet " tweets Apple iPad 1,795 Amazon Kindle 250 Google Nexus 100 Microsoft Surface 36
Indirect Metric #3: Store Wars
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1B Tweets Every 2.5 Days : Twitter. 1 billion transactions/day : Salesforce.
Storing 700 terabytes of data into a single gram of DNA . Downside, reading is very slow . And any data might conflict with the messages aliens have already inserted.
Assuming my infonome is 1 TB, it would cost $ 1,338,333 to store my existence in Amazon Glacier for a long nowish 10,000 years. # notbad
Quotable Quotes: …
…reply given the presence of a given phrase: Word Portion requiring immediate reply All tweets 12.3% " svn" 0.2% "job" 0.5% "support" 17.3% " highrise" 20.8% "campfire" 26.9% "help" 35.4% " basecamp" 49.5%
This isn't earth shattering—this is exactly what you'd expect, and is the basis for the rudimentary classification we initially used.
With our data loaded and cleaned, we'll get started …
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It's very simple - an infinite scrolling list of all Tweets that mention 37signals from newest to oldest. Tweets that have been resolved are shown grayed out, and can be completely filtered out if you want.
You can reply to a tweet, retweet it, share it to Campfire, or mark it as resolved. Once you reply to a tweet, that reply shows up in the history, so we always know who replied. There are keyboard shortcuts to move up and down through the list of unresolved tweets. When new tweets …
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This artice is a guest post from Joel Gascoigne. Joel is is the founder of Buffer , a smarter way to share great articles with friends and followers. He Tweets at @ joelgascoigne and writes regularly on his blog about startups, life, learning and happiness.
I was speaking at an event last week about the lessons I've learned along my startup journey, mostly focused on my recent experience of founding and growing Buffer . The first lesson I talked …
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…to deliver sports information as quickly as possible. Fanium aggregates and filters Tweets in real-time from local sports writers, analysts and official team Twitter accounts. A stream of these Tweets accompanies live scores to give users the most up-to-date information about their favorite teams.
Within hours of launching, we began to question the speediness of our site. While it was not dreadfully slow by any means, we were expecting lower response times due to the clutter-free, low …
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…and Part 2 of this series. Because of the number of emails, comments, Tweets and other messages, there is an apparent need to add more context to PaaS, the NoOps/AppOps/DevOps thought, and how Cloud Foundry is stepping up to make this future happen.
Double Featurette, Part One: Context, Answers, and Thoughts on PaaS + OSS Cloud Foundry
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It takes a licking and keeps on HighScalabilitying:
Instagram: 60 photos per second ; Twitter: 8,868 Tweets per second MTV Awards ; Foursquare: 15 million users ; Facebook: 60 million qps ; Netflix: stream 1 billion hours in Q4 ; Evolution: 16,000 eyes ; Evernote: 750K Paid Users ; AOL: 60,000 Servers ; Netflix API: 20,000 requests per second ; Tumblr: 900 posts per second .
Sean O'Halpin - Processing Tweets at the BBC
Sean O'Halpin couldn't make our December meeting due to illness, but he's fighting fit now and is going to give his talk this month instead. He'll be telling us about some work at the BBC involving twitter:
I'll be talking about how we're using Ruby to process tweets in realtime to discover inbound links to the BBC Zeitgeist and how we're reading the Twitter Firehose …
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