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9 months ago
in SocialWebTV, Feedly, FriendFeed, Webjam and more… on Roger Kondrat - Online Communicator
Thanks for the mention buddy!
Like you say, we'd love it if you were to move over to Webjam or at least develop some kind of presence with us but can certainly understand why you are happy with Wordpress and indeed we're not looking to compete on blogging functionalities since that's certainly not our forte.
One advantage that we do have for publishers is the social networking aspect. We've seen that once a blogger does establish a little network on Webjam, the level of interaction (i.e. number of comments/cross-links) on their blog is actually much higher than for a standalone blog which isn't able to take advantage of the social graph that exists around it.
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Like you say, we'd love it if you were to move over to Webjam or at least develop some kind of presence with us but can certainly understand why you are happy with Wordpress and indeed we're not looking to compete on blogging functionalities since that's certainly not our forte.
One advantage that we do have for publishers is the social networking aspect. We've seen that once a blogger does establish a little network on Webjam, the level of interaction (i.e. number of comments/cross-links) on their blog is actually much higher than for a standalone blog which isn't able to take advantage of the social graph that exists around it.
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1 year ago
in 10 Reasons Why I Ditched Wordpress › Yongfook | Web Producer and Usability Consultant based in Tokyo on Yongfook.com
20 queries per page is nothing. Sure it might be more than you'd think should be required but it would hardly classify it as a resource hog. Caching also has it's downside - obviously I have no idea how you've implemented it but caching on any large scale kinda system generally scales badly (I've found out the hard way!).
I think it really depends on how serious you are about blogging and what your level of technical expertise is. I'd generally recommend a hosted platform as they're getting better and better these days and they are even customisable/plugin-able to a certain extent - but then again I'm biased (disclosure: I'm lead technical architect on Webjam which is an (MVC based ;)) hosted cms/blogging/social networking platform). If you're more technically minded, then wordpress or even a custom system like you've written can probably suit you individual needs slightly better, but this certainly isn't the case for most people.
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I think it really depends on how serious you are about blogging and what your level of technical expertise is. I'd generally recommend a hosted platform as they're getting better and better these days and they are even customisable/plugin-able to a certain extent - but then again I'm biased (disclosure: I'm lead technical architect on Webjam which is an (MVC based ;)) hosted cms/blogging/social networking platform). If you're more technically minded, then wordpress or even a custom system like you've written can probably suit you individual needs slightly better, but this certainly isn't the case for most people.
Marcus
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yongfook
Marcus,
Thanks for your comment. I don't want to get into some silly pissing war here, but I do feel you are making an unfair comparison. My individual blog, compared to a hosted platform that has to serve hundreds (thousands?) of different blogs each with their own audiences and traffic levels will of course have to have a massively different scalability strategy.
Anyway, I agree - caching is not the be all and end all, but it's a decent enough solution for an individual's blog like mine.
Also, when trying to make a page load more efficiently one of the areas you can look at - and it's disingenuous to deny this - is making queries snappier. This involves a lot of trial and error - for example, can I make one expensive query in the place of 5 separate queries, and is that expensive query going to hit the database more or less than doing it all separately.
My point about a page with many, many queries on it was more about the carefree attitude to plugins that Wordpress kind of encourages you to foster. Your blog could begin as a model of efficiency but as soon as you start adding all these plugins written by unknown people you open yourself up to serving a page that has many more db hits than you intended, and sometimes these can be very expensive requests (a popular addition is one of those "related posts" plugins - these in particular are really fat queries) which just add up and up to the undisciplined or uneducated blog owner and make your pages very inefficient.
Thanks for your comment. I don't want to get into some silly pissing war here, but I do feel you are making an unfair comparison. My individual blog, compared to a hosted platform that has to serve hundreds (thousands?) of different blogs each with their own audiences and traffic levels will of course have to have a massively different scalability strategy.
Anyway, I agree - caching is not the be all and end all, but it's a decent enough solution for an individual's blog like mine.
Also, when trying to make a page load more efficiently one of the areas you can look at - and it's disingenuous to deny this - is making queries snappier. This involves a lot of trial and error - for example, can I make one expensive query in the place of 5 separate queries, and is that expensive query going to hit the database more or less than doing it all separately.
My point about a page with many, many queries on it was more about the carefree attitude to plugins that Wordpress kind of encourages you to foster. Your blog could begin as a model of efficiency but as soon as you start adding all these plugins written by unknown people you open yourself up to serving a page that has many more db hits than you intended, and sometimes these can be very expensive requests (a popular addition is one of those "related posts" plugins - these in particular are really fat queries) which just add up and up to the undisciplined or uneducated blog owner and make your pages very inefficient.
1 year ago
in 2007/07/11/myspace-versus-facebook/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
haha, what kind of crack are they smoking!??
ok, myspace traffic has increased by 25% over the last year - which is certainly not bad. Facebook traffic has increased by well over 200%. The lines will cross. It's just a matter of when.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_detai...
Myspace's first mover advantage is now gone and they will soon start suffering because of the low quality of the product and consequently MASSIVE legacy issues will make it much more difficult for them to keep pace when they try to upgrade the platform - the majority of the code is written in ColdFusion (a depricated language!) interpreted into .NET - that makes even Bloomberg's legacy issues look like childs-play! Facebook on the other hand was done correctly from the beginning.
ok, myspace traffic has increased by 25% over the last year - which is certainly not bad. Facebook traffic has increased by well over 200%. The lines will cross. It's just a matter of when.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_detai...
Myspace's first mover advantage is now gone and they will soon start suffering because of the low quality of the product and consequently MASSIVE legacy issues will make it much more difficult for them to keep pace when they try to upgrade the platform - the majority of the code is written in ColdFusion (a depricated language!) interpreted into .NET - that makes even Bloomberg's legacy issues look like childs-play! Facebook on the other hand was done correctly from the beginning.
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Thanks for dropping by, and absolutely the 'social networking aspect' is a valuable advantage. I have found just using Disqus has impacted how many comments I get so I would imagine being part of a larger community like Webjam could have an even more impressive impact.
Love what you guys are doing, keep up the good work!