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Re: 10 Reasons Why I Ditched Wordpress › Yongfook | Web Producer and Usability Consultant based in Tokyo

Marcus — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:33:06 -0000

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.

Marcus
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Re: 10 Reasons Why I Ditched Wordpress › Yongfook | Web Producer and Usability Consultant based in Tokyo

Marcus — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:45:22 -0000

Indeed the scaling issues certainly don't apply for one off sites.

I think part of the reason that Wordpress plugins are so inefficient is like you say that they use so much code and are not part of an MVC framework - which would certainly more easily facilitate the re-use of certain bits of data without having to re-query the database. The other problem that Wordpress has is that it's simply old. Therefore it has the legacy of having to support (or not break) all of the old plugins when they upgrade. This really hinders their ability to do a proper 'modern' re-write of the whole system.

Re: IE7 is in the wild

Marcus — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:33:11 -0000

not very bullish on MS these days. Over the past 4-5 years since XP was released they've not really achieved very much. The fact that IE7 took over 4 years is a joke. IE7's CSS and JavaScript support is still miles behind Firefox. And now I have to modify my code further to support yet another buggy browser which sits half-way in between Firefox and IE6! arghhhhhh!!!!

Re: Can the UK incubate superstars like Yahoo!?

Marcus — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:39:40 -0000

it's coming, it's coming..... patience roger!

Re: http://www.techwinter.com/2007/06/19/apple-merges-with-google%e2%80%a6-you-have-to-be-kidding-right/

Marcus — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:32:41 -0000

I have to say - would find it extremely unlikely that Google will buy Apple or indeed that there will be any kind of merger.

Apple have a very large market in front of them and are making good grounds in the pc, personal mp3 player and more recently mobile phone hardware market - the last thing they need is a merger with a fairly unrelated business.

Google are doing just fine and will continue to dominate in the internet services market. The last thing they need to do is completely diversify there business buy purchasing a fully-fledged hardware business.

Basically, it's not gonna happen. Yahoo is an interesting one to watch in the near future, but if Yahoo is bought by or merged with anyone, it won't be Google or Apple!

Re: We are talking TechCrunch it seems today

Marcus — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:02:22 -0000

dude.
April fools!

Re: SocialWebTV, Feedly, FriendFeed, Webjam and more…

Marcus — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:59:31 -0000

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.

./m

Re: 2006/08/13/browster-20-makes-myspace-suck-less/

Marcus — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 05:25:29 -0000

how long before myspace kills this?

Re: 2006/09/25/commonroom-a-facebook-rival-from-zuckerbergs-arch-enemy/

Marcus — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:07:50 -0000

the dude has *serious* issues. enough to write a 335 book about the whole affair!

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/read/read.html

I got as far as page 7.... ZZzzzzzzzzzz....

Re: 2006/10/05/myspace-founder-claims-sale-scandal/

Marcus — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:36:52 -0000

my heart bleeds. sob sob.... no seriously, i cried myself to sleep for these guys last night, i really did!

Re: 2006/12/21/social-shopping/

Marcus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:37:47 -0000

vote: Crowdstorm

Re: 2007/01/28/mashable-relaunches/

Marcus — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:02:42 -0000

Really nice. Very 2.0 ;)

Re: 2007/02/04/webwag/

Marcus — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:30:11 -0000

haha, this is quite clever. It is not screen-scraping as I first thought. The code simply frames the selected portion of the page in an [iframe]. its a novel idea but it's not exactly suited to content that might change size.

Marcus

Re: 2007/03/18/the-geeks-guide-to-good-and-evil/

Marcus — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:24:22 -0000

hey pete,
you missed out

mashable: good
techcrunch: evil

;)

Re: 2007/05/19/lovemyflash/

Marcus — Sun, 20 May 2007 12:49:54 -0000

wow! This is quite amazing considering what it's built upon. Must have been quite fiddly to develop. Can anyone say 'leaky abstraction layer'! ;)

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbs...

Re: 2007/06/12/facebook-sold-shares/

Marcus — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:01:00 -0000

sounds unlikely. ~$100m would sure buy a lot of servers! ;)

Re: 2007/07/07/what-should-technorati-do/

Marcus — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:27:56 -0000

Can't say I've noticed any 'decline' myself. I still use Technorati and think it's a killer service. Of course there's a lot more they could do and indeed they probably are working on lots of cool new stuff behind the scenes. Lets wait and see!

Re: 2007/07/11/myspace-versus-facebook/

Marcus — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:35:07 -0000

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.

Re: 2007/07/16/iphone-youtube-robert-tur/

Marcus — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:16:06 -0000

Look at the absolutely massive effect this has had on the Apple stock price. lol

Re: 2007/07/24/bbc-iplayer-petition/

Marcus — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:49:46 -0000

Shocking! Though I suspect it's more a technology issue to do with DRM rather than anything else. I guess they are developing for IE6/Win first simply because this is still unfortunately ~70% of the market.

From a PR p.o.v it would have been wise for them to delay slightly and release all of the versions at the same time - but then they were probably under pressure to get an initial version out ASAP because of all the delays to date.

Re: 2007/07/28/facebook-stress-test/

Marcus — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:00:43 -0000

The Facebook API caches all of the HTML for the plugins - thus meaning that it doesn't do any server-side processing when rendering the applications on your page - instead applications are updated by a PUSH from the server on which they reside up to Facebook. This makes it less powerful (to one extent) than what might be possible with widgets on other networks, but it does get around the issues with external widgets slowing down the page. Indeed if your 200 widgets were all pulled from their corresponding servers every time the page is loaded then it would have taken considerably longer than 40 seconds! I'd say they've made a very well thought out decision on this regarding keeping control within their own network and having a very scablable infastructure.

Marcus

Re: 2007/09/22/google-3/

Marcus — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:27:05 -0000

I'd imagine the direct effects of the above will be very small. But indeed if the sub-prime crisis effect the economy as a whole then of course it's likely that google's ad revenues will be effected - as will everyone else.

Re: 2008/02/04/nexopia-funded/

Marcus — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:02:48 -0000

Credit to Timo for having the maturity to step down as CEO and allowing someone with greater experience to take the reigns. Now they need to spend some time revamping and improving the quality of the site.

Marcus

Re: 2008/03/03/netvibes-ginger-public-launch/

Marcus — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:04:32 -0000

doesn't look like it's live yet. still goes to the coriander release for me. also nothing about it on their blog.

Re: 2008/03/15/craigslist-cleared-lawsuit/

Marcus — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:37:29 -0000

thank god for lawyers - i mean how could a civilised society exist without the ability to sue for something that affects NOONE!!