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Re: Posty not the dogs bullocks and neither is Twhirl

funkyboy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:53:29 -0000

I see your point.
Sometimes it is not easy to find the added value of tools like Posty.
I personally had needs similar to yours, that is tools which do something more than the things I can do in a regular browser.
I am not trying to justify my work on Posty, but I feel I can say we are not yet ready for that, for two reasons: api provide a good gateway to a service, but servers are not yet ready to be hit by tons of requests as it would be needed by the requests you made.
The second reason is related to the frameworks you adopt to develop your app. The one I use - Adobe Air - is great, but it has been released less than a year ago. It is still young and needs to grow, to address all the needs of RIA developers.

For example you talk about thread visualization, and I'd love a tool with such a feature, being it a web mashup or a desktop application.
In twitter there are no threads, at least not in the sense of forums. There are just updates prefixed by a username. In that case threading is useless, because you will end up with a list of partially unrelated statuses.
In this case let me reply with one question: if threads are important, why twitter or FF don't display them on the website?

My response is easy: they did conceive their services as threaded conversations, but just as flat lists.

Anyway, thanks for the criticism. I appreciate it.

Re: identi.ca survives the Desktop Client Invasion

funkyboy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:07:52 -0000

Posty 1.5 final version has been released.
Can you please update the links of this post?
Thanks.

Cheers,

-c.

Re: Testing Posty | My Philly Network

funkyboy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:44:08 -0000

As for everything on one screen I am thinking of that, though I think Friendfeed is a pretty good solution to the problem

Re: Testing Posty | My Philly Network

funkyboy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:40:09 -0000

I have set a smaller minimum size, 440pixels. Otherwise your are not able to watch youtube videos... Thinking of scaling more...

Re: Posty: All-in-one AIR App for Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Tumblr and Friendfeed

funkyboy — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:28:06 -0000

New minimum size will be 380 pixels... New release soon... Stay tuned.

Re: Web 2.0 Obsessions

funkyboy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:35:26 -0000

I was thinking to create a startup on social media. If I will I'll hire you as evangelist :)

Re: Spreading Funkyness» Blog Archive » Stumble with Safari (the easy way)

funkyboy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:50:55 -0000

Found a nicer alternative: http://stumbi.blogspot.com/2008/02/stumbi-090.html

Re: 2008/04/17/alertthingy-twhirl-comparison/

funkyboy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:20:32 -0000

the custom graphics, especially couple with transparency, usually causes memory hogs.

Re: 2008/06/06/adobe-air-applications/

funkyboy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:43:54 -0000

Hi,

just wanted to let you know that a new version of Posty is out.

Re: Not productive enough? Turn off the Internet

funkyboy — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:25:52 -0000

I agree. I notice an increase of productivity when I am not distracted by the phone, the internet or the office mates :)
And I feel strange when, after 2/3 straight hours of work I think: "I didn't miss email and rss feeds!" :)