Jan 17, 2008 | blog, daily links
Jeff Pulver gives some great tips on speaking at events and how to make the most of it.
A really good post by blogging friend Herb Sawyer.
I think Steve Jobs and Apple are finding out just how hard it is to keep popular products patched and secure. It’s easy to make claims when your the underdog, but much harder when your platform is under scrutiny.
In addition to praising Gates contributions to the industry & society, he comments on Amazon’s Kindle. He’s right that it’ll fail, but wrong on the reason. People do read – and like to! The issue is that digital readers don’t meet the expectation of the p
Jan 16, 2008 | happiness
Helping others by sharing what I’ve learned.
Jan 15, 2008 | blog
I really hate to pick on my favorite online service, but… I have to. Twitter started having issues today with all the traffic from “Mac (obsession) World” today. Supposedly over all the mcInterest in what mcRevelations of mystical mcGadgetry Steve mcJobs would reveal for the mcFollowers of the mcCult.
What get’s me curious is how Twitter handled the traffic from CES last week without nary a blip, and out of the blue, McWrld trips it up big time.
Perhaps I’m out of touch and there is more interest from McWrld and that drives higher volumes of traffic. I dunno.
At any rate, Twitter has proven it’s worth to hundreds of thousands of users, but they still have reliability issues when traffic ramps up. I’m on Twitter for the long haul, it’s a core component in my social networking toolkit, so I’m apt to be disappointed when traffic from a marginally relevant tech show drives it’s usability into the ground.
Ok, end of rant.
And yes, I feel mcBetter. 😀
Jan 15, 2008 | blog, daily links
Check out PR Squared’s version 2.0 of the SMNR.
Somewhat Frank lists the 2008 conference schedule – which are you attending?
Blogger Chris Cree give some tips when upgrading WordPress.
Blogger Chris Cree give some tips when upgrading WordPress.