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I like it too, but what I don't like about how Tweetie handles DMs is I can't tell the most recent DMs I've received vs. one's I've sent. I find myselfconstantly drilling down only to realize the last DM sent between me and someone else was from me, not from them. FWIW.

Anyway, nice to meet you at the #140tc afterparty.

Here's a few more photos of #mashlanta: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeschinkel/sets/...

More to come when I have time to process them. :-)

I was going to write almost exactly this same post. But you beat me to it. Thankfully. Now I don't have to. ;-)

It would be more clear and correct if you said "Your Domain
Name is Key" rather than "Your URL is Key." A website
contains a myriad of URLs but only one (1) domain name.

That said, good URL Design for *all* URLs on a site is also
very important and that is why I make what might otherwise
be viewed as a pedantic clarification. See
http://blog.welldesignedurls.com for more.

Thinking a betting-style prediction market would work better than Digg-style for finding wisdom of crowds. Bets for bragging rights alone.

LOVE the 3rd criticism of the Neanderthals that you quoted. LOL! :-)

Sounds like a MASSIVE trademark infringement. WordPress lawyers, have a field day with me cheering you on.

Interesting. I really like vBulletin for its features but have recently been looking for something else because I want something that is open-source. Maybe there we release vBulletin as open-source and we can see an explosion of innovation there?

Jeff:

Great post, as usual.

And though I hate to admit it I've been predicting this in private conversations with my father since 2001.

But, I'm tired of negativity. What your post tells me is that many if not all of the "irrationally exuberant" competition (i.e. those that hindsight shows to have been over funded and/or that can't run their business for squat) are going to get kicked to the curb and only those that really run their businesses well will succeed. And that tells me Appcelerator will do very well.

Actually, like buying when the market has bottomed out, now seems like a great time to start a startup to me. FWIW.

Hi Douglas:

An even easier way is to use TweetBeep.com which itself uses the former Summize at http://search.twitter.com. I use TweetBeep to monitor a lot of different keywords including all the various misspellings of my last name! :-)

Also for those interested I prepared slide for an Intro to Twitter that I delivered at Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs' recent Twitter meetup.

-Mike

First, I've found @al3x to be SUPER to deal with; the best API support I've ever experienced. Just post here: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-developm...

Second, I think Twitter may be requiring you to chunk by 100 in order to optimize for HTTP caching. Also, think what a load it would put on Twitter if several apps attempted to download @Scobleizer's friend list?

Anyway, I'm working on a Twitter app that I'd like to integrate with Divvs once we get close to our own alpha. If you are interested I'll let you know more soon.

@knox: "You are actually advocating an old style of angel investing."

Sorry, I don't follow you at all. OTOH, I'd be extremely interested in a post on your blog that that explained in detail what you meant, with examples. And I'm not goading you; I sincerely think it would be helpful. The more entrepreneurs can understand how the local angel investors analyze deals and invest in companies the better off we'd all be.

BTW, I really don't have a horse in this race other than really wanting to see the tides rise for all the boats in the Atlanta area. Frankly I'd love to see all my fellow Atlanta web entrepreneurs hit home runs as success breeds success.

The best way we can make that happen is for all of us to understand each other and work together to make Atlanta the envy of Ft Wayne Chicago and Boston as well as even Silicon Valley without us wishing we were them.

Agree?

@Knox: I'd like to start blogging about those $25k to $100k deals that you are talking about. Can we set that up so that I can provide some exposure to the fact that is happening?

@Jeff: OMG. I honestly had goosebumps reading this. I can't tell you how valuable I think it will be that you have taken the effort to analyze this and explain it. WOW.

That said, here's hoping those of us who are obviously staying behind can make you proud so that when you do return triumphant you'll find a vibrant community that will be able to multiple everything you give back by orders of magnitude.

Anyway, subscribed.

P.S. I guess you need to update your blog's footer... '-(

Douglas:

I almost never go to Starbucks because I've never been a coffee drinker and why pay for wifi when it's free elsewhere?

But frankly I think the problem is the public markets. Investors are always demanding growth and not caring about the extra little special you want in the companies whose stock they hold. If their stock doesn't growth in value greater than the S&P they are sacking management and bringing out the lawyers.

Problem is once you get to a certain scale you just can't continue to grow at the same rate. With 95% market share where are you going to find 10% growth? So management starts cutting corners, shaving costs, getting cheesier with its approaches. And that's especially true if the founder and/or management team with the winning ethos is no longer at the helm (just look at Apple during the John Sculley days.)

So realistically it hasn't been Starbucks killing itself, it has been the nature of the beast of public markets where investors are fully divorced from any involvement in the company's operations and just demand more, more, more.

It's enough to make an idealistic capitalist want to stay private.

Jesse: People started using @username organically and then Twitter recognized it and just "paved the cowpaths." @username works where username doesn't because of global vs. local scope as @azurelunatic brings up, and also because it's an otherwise unusual pattern that is easy and reliable to parse for username references. I personally love the way they are used. Besides, some people hated music CD when they were released too. '-)

Oh no! There's the coat and tie again! '-p

(Nice design though! :)

Doh! For some reason I didn't see the "Full Disclosure" part, I read it in my RSS reader and somehow missed that. Sorry for the prior post.

Great post, as usual.

But I do want to ask, how did you come about learning of Compendium's feature you highlighted? Is a client of yours using it? Or was this post sponsored by Compendium? It really did come across like a commercial.

Be aware I'm not accusing you, and even if it was a pay-for-post I'd still think highly of you, but I am just supremely curious...

Good god that would have been funny, if it hadn't been so painful to watch! LOL!

Douglas: I agree for factual errors. If you leave them you potentially do future readers a serious disservice. OTOH, if you take a soapbox position and get called to the carpet on it, I think it is disingenuous to rewrite history. JMTCW anyway.

Quick! Get this man a sense of humor!

Just goes to show that Hillary really was a closet Republican after all... ;-)

Yeah, I love his message. For example, I read Free Culture several years back, and I very much felt his pain. However, with all bought-and-paid-for suits we have in congress I have no hope that things will change in the foreseeable future. ;-(

Frankly I don't see how anyone has the time to read many blogs. When I allow myself to go for a period where I get nothing done and then I feel really bad about myself for doing so. Then if I manage to allow myself to get sucked into a "conversation" (read "debate") that's when it really becomes a timesuck. I don't know how people who are gainfully employed manage to find the time for it.

But one of the reasons why I continue to I read yours is that, for the topics that interest me, yours is much higher on the "signal" than on "noise" ratio than most blogs. Kudos.