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Re: My instant review of Twitter's new business plan. (Scripting News)

Eric Woodward — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:52:37 -0000

All of that may actually be true. But Twitter as an organization, and its more significant investors when they publicly assert Twitter's motivation or true intent, simply have no credibility anymore. Twitter has indeed baited and switched the more credible and competent members of its developer ecosystem. To deny that is disingenuous.

Re: A poor man's OAuth? (Scripting News)

Eric Woodward — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:55:11 -0000

For Twitter, OAuth has actually very little to do with protecting users or developers (in my opinion), but controlling access to the API. When the conversion to OAuth is complete they will be in a position to instantly block any application they don't like, which they have already started doing. With your FF-based solution (used by others such as Ping.fm), this ability is lost. It protects users, sure, but it does not address being able to control and dictate terms to people using your platform.

Re: How Twitter can save itself from Doom. (Scripting News)

Eric Woodward — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:32:30 -0000

Yeah, that was directed at playerx. I have no idea what you have in mind. Anyway, liked the post. I did not mean to diverge into a technical rathole.

Re: How Twitter can save itself from Doom. (Scripting News)

Eric Woodward — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:20:20 -0000

Understood. Not like I don't understand these options. I just don't think anything like com.twitter@px ever gets adopted by anyone. Just me.

Re: How Twitter can save itself from Doom. (Scripting News)

Eric Woodward — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:02:26 -0000

Understood. But not a very workable solution given the conventions that are actually being used by users today, at least in my very humble opinion, for what it is worth. @username is very powerful, and under federation it simply breaks down.

Re: How Twitter can save itself from Doom. (Scripting News)

Eric Woodward — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:50:14 -0000

Federation is always interesting to debate. But how is the @username namespace problem solved? This is also one question that the status.net team never seems able to answer, at all.

Re: Nambu Bookmarklet and User Translations

Eric Woodward — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:09:13 -0000

There is a preference to turn it off in General > Viewing.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:08:11 -0000

We are not really looking at status.net, currently. We have lots and lots of other items ahead of them. They simply do not have any users.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:07:32 -0000

I will look for it. But the fact that I live this stuff and did not know that kind of speaks to the issue there. I think we can assume their downloads for it are effectively zero.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:06:07 -0000

Pretty much, yes.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:05:42 -0000

Yeah it is still in a real beta. The word BETA on the homepage could not be any larger. There are definitely some final issues to work out with conflicts and OS versions, but it works awesome for the vast majority.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:04:42 -0000

Sure, but remember Porsche has high margins. Margins in Twitter development to date are zero.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:00:38 -0000

In terms of market share, Twitter will destroy us no matter what we do. This is just a fact, a fact people gloss over with their "innovate" dogma. Nambu has little chance now of becoming anything more than a lifestyle business if we have to compete with Twitter as well as everyone else. We are capable developers that can focus on many areas free from this nonsense, with a much greater potential for real return.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:58:31 -0000

Yes, Twitter bought Tweetie for OS X as well, and they are releasing the update soon, on schedule I presume, and making it a free application.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:32:41 -0000

Yeah I recognize that there are a lot of users that would pay for this, I just dont think there are enough to justify doing it, currently.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:31:56 -0000

Threaded conversations are actually back in Nambu 2.x, and have been a few releases now. On the next "in reply..." you see in a tweet, click on it.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:21:24 -0000

Again, I point to the Facebook example. There are no 3rd party applications for the iPhone for Facebook because one wont get enough adoption regardless to justify the investment against the official free version. I understand what you are saying is what everyone is taught to believe -- be creative, innovate -- but it is a simple decision of investment vs. return. We would have higher return focusing on other areas. The iPhone is a unique case.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:19:50 -0000

On the desktop we agree, which is why we are excited to continue. Nothing really changes on OS X, but we have to change our plans a little bit, and we now there is no point to investing anything on a mobile platform. There are no Facebook applications on the iPhone beyond Facebook's for a reason.

Re: The New Twitter Starts Now

Eric Woodward — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:18:12 -0000

Yeah, the idea of one do-it-all application does not really work for the iPhone. Successful iPhone applications are mostly dedicated single task applications, like the official Facebook application. The first version of Nambu for iPhone actually had too much in it.

Unfortunately, we won't be able to offer a 10.4 version. We are using OS X APIs in Nambu that are only available on 10.5.

Re: Nambu Roams Free once Again

Eric Woodward — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:33:35 -0000

Please update to 2.0.3b which resolves this issue.

Re: Nambu Roams Free once Again

Eric Woodward — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:42:35 -0000

Please keep sending the reports, and update to 2.0.1b, which was just posted. The instructions for a clean install are up here now: http://www.nambu.com/help/s...

Re: Nambu Roams Free once Again

Eric Woodward — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:12:30 -0000

There a few users that been in the private beta for months that have needed to remove all Nambu files and start over. Please try this for me. If you a few instructions on how to do this let me know.

Re: Nambu Roams Free once Again

Eric Woodward — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:11:19 -0000

Thanks for the feedback here. We can certainly do better with coordinating the feedback. We generally do try and respond to each item, or at least update its status to say we are working on it. Maintaining GetSatisfacation is terribly time consuming, but I have posted over 1200 replies and comments there. I am responding, generally, and most certainly working on the feedback.

We are aware of some users that are unable to authenticate valid Twitter credentials. This is related to recent changes we made to convert to Twitter's new OAuth system. We will have is resolved soon.

Re: Twitter = Voluntary Spam Network?

Eric Woodward — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:38:42 -0000

There are a number of small issues with supporting Identi.ca that add up to quite a lot of confusion when presenting their feature set and its names and Twitter's. It is not something we are really working on at the moment, and adding support for status.net within Nambu seems unlikely in the short term.

Re: Twitter = Voluntary Spam Network?

Eric Woodward — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:02:55 -0000

My apologies again. I have no interest in singling you out, but you fit the point perfectly as someone I want to follow but cant because of ads. It has nothing to do with blocking/not blocking you since I do want the other tweets, which seems some people are not quite understanding.

I agree clients need to address this need, but that really wont address the overhaul flaw that exists in the implementation of Twitter as it pertains to this specific issue. Hardly anyone will use a hashtag because it basically announces what they are doing. It wont fix twitter.com (where all users remain for a while and develop their conception of the service) or the concept of Twitter "channels" others are working on which really only serve to deliver ads.

It is what it is. I felt it was an important issue to raise, but perhaps others that the ability to effect some change (blogs) want to reserve the option to do this themselves. I am not sure why no one is really talking about this. In the end, it might be also that users of Twitter dont really care that much about the service as they might some others we all use.

Again, my apologies to you personally.