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Re: Why no Twitter clients with an API? (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:03:34 -0000

Twittelator Pro (my preferred twitter app on the iPhone) has an API, but I understand where you're coming from. I do wish all of this bullshit would interoperate more than it does.

http://www.stone.com/Twitte...

Re: Tease! Tease! Tease! (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:17:46 -0000

That is most excellent.

Re: August Lilleaas

dai_vernon — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:24:15 -0000

I think this is great - this has deserved all the press it has gotten and it is going to spur creation of a bunch of great 3rd party services.

Re: My one sentence review of the Facebook iPhone app (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:36:09 -0000

Do you think mobile interfaces will influence desktop interfaces in the end? Or will we just end up cramming desktop apps onto mobile screens? This general topic is going to be my friday blog post and I'd love your input.

Re: How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:41:13 -0000

I would argue that running a URL shortening service is a pretty non-trivial function so long as twitter is limited to 140 chars

Re: tr.im goes open source, community supported (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:26:01 -0000

I won $5 betting this would happen

Re: Programming wisdom (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:07:44 -0000

This is exactly what I believe.

Re: The right and wrong way to do tech (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:27:22 -0000

I don't think that Dave is barking up the wrong tree here - I'd also disagree with the sentiment that iPhone apps are for the technologically illiterate, though I don't want to get into that. The problem is that the development process for one of the most popular mobile platforms has a belt tied around its neck. Nobody should be able to dictate the development process like that, let alone so poorly.

Re: The right and wrong way to do tech (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:16:25 -0000

Lots of people get uppity about mobile applications for some reason. My guess is that they think they don't understand the market and don't want people to make boatloads of money without them expecting it. When I was tooling around with some weather.com xml weather data I had to agree to a document stating that, among other things

YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE TO CREATE WEATHER AND WEATHER-RELATED PRODUCTS TO BE DISPLAYED ON HANDHELD OR OTHER WIRELESS DEVICES.

I think things like that are indicative of people not wanting to let the tech world control itself. Rather than letting the communities come up with killer apps they want to take steps to ensure it happens in-house, and stays proprietary.

Re: Bad Hair Day #8

dai_vernon — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:44:52 -0000

I think I posted this in the wrong place before: I made a blog post about the implications for our data re: Friendfeed perhaps exploding. http://taylorheffernan.squa...

Re: Bad Hair Day #1

dai_vernon — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:28:41 -0000

My two cents regarding the potential languishing and disappearance of FriendFeed: http://taylorheffernan.squa...

Re: Loose.ly coupled 140-char message network (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:18:58 -0000

Given that bad names for things often take hold, I'm going to have to vote for Microbes

Re: Loose.ly coupled 140-char message network (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:46:35 -0000

I am no master of it either, but it is a simple concept and I think it could be of utility. People have commented there and on tech news aggregators that it is apparently very similar in concept to Laconica, the backbone of identi.ca. It's biggest benefit in my mind is the fact that you don't really need a central server that could be the recipient of a DoS. It looks like you would still need a little bit of infrastructure to handle some specialized tasks, but I think it is all still fully distributable. I'll expand on it later after I percolate and research some more.

Re: Loose.ly coupled 140-char message network (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:34:16 -0000

Dai Vernon was a Canadian magician from the early to mid 20th century who's generally regarded as the greatest magician ever to live. One of my childhood heroes - I was one of those crazy kids who made up a name to use the internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Loose.ly coupled 140-char message network (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:27:01 -0000

I feel amazingly legitimate now. Guess I have to stick with this.

Re: Evan Williams vs the Internet (Scripting News)

dai_vernon — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:35:08 -0000

On your NerdTV interview in 05 with Cringely, you summarized Bill Gates vs the Internet as "Bill Gates, you're fucked". That made sense to me based on what kind of stuff Bill Gates was trying to do, but it seemed to me that that phrase gained its truth from the fact that Gates was trying to Microsoftize what amounted to more than a communications medium. Even though the Internet has become the premier communications medium, I think that Bill's desire to own it stemmed more from wanting to dominate the business side of everything technology. Say what you will re the business applications of Twitter, but the Evan Williams thing doesn't seem like his labor is so supremely short-sighted as Gate's ambition to control the internet. All of that said, would you still describe this scenario as "Evan Williams, you're fucked"?