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Twitter Updates for 2008-06-10

  • I am ready to lay down £159, to upgrade to the 16GB iPhone 3G. I aren’t sure about the white though #
  • 500 emails bite the dust – inbox zero try 2 #
  • I wish it was 500, actually 5000. #
  • @ScottBourne See http://tinyurl.com/635dod personally I think its a joke, I will be in London this weekend, we’ll see what happens. #
  • is it me or has all the iPhone 3G news dried up, and its becoming very boring. I guess thats the price of hype. #
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Review in 20s: Mike Oldfield – Music of the Spheres [Music]

This is a new one for the reviews section, Music!

When you think Mike Oldfield, you think Tubular Bells and The Exorcist. Music of the Spheres is completely different yet very much the same, based on the premise that everything in the universe has a unique sound or vibration. Oldfield has orchestrated a journey by music through the universe.

Its a very good album from big impact tracks, to very subtle and calming tracks. Its the sort of album you put on at the end of the day and just kick back and relax to. While it could be argued its just a re-hash of oldfield’s old catalogue circa Tubular Bells 1. I still enjoyed it.

Verdict – 4 Stars

Links MikeOldfield.com | Music Of The Spheres

 

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Twitter Updates for 2008-06-09

  • I think the iPhone 2 is so obvious, Steve wont give a mention. Instead we will get a yellow submarine iphone at edge speed even under water. #
  • for WWDC rolling live updates as long as twitter stays up http://wwdc.twistori.com/ #
  • next feature to switched so twitter can stay online, Posting! #
  • WWDC = Dig Let down so far – Demo’s are borng me to tears and i am 7000 miles away. #
  • Apple is not on form today, not of form at all. I distinct lack of the usuall pizazz #
  • At Last – Apple does not dissapoint #
  • @leolaporte glad to see TWiT live is doing so well, enjoyed the coverage! It has nothing to do with Steve, build it and they will come. #
  • o2 UK seems very scarce on the iPhone 3G details and there is a complete lack of prices on the Apple Store. #
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How not to survive the onslaught of WWDC.

Twitter has come under attack for being a great service that has a poor record of up time Link1 – TechCrunch, Link 2 – TechCrunch. Well news on the street is Twitter survived the several thousand posts it recieved during WWDC, including my own meager posts. But at what cost.

I laughingly joked that the next feature for twitter to disable to ensure it stayed up, was to turn off twittering. In reality it was nearly at that point the following features were cut for the duration of the Keynote:

 

  • @ Replies
  • Everyone Tab
  • Archive Tab
  • Public Timeline
  • Limit number of API requests from 30 Request Per Hour to 10
  • Updates by SMS
  • User Deletion and Restoration 
It seems to me that the vast majority of the functionality of twitter was culled to ensure uptime, the community was just lobotomised with no thought. I applaud twitter for staying online, but it shouldn’t have cost the features that make Twitter, Twitter and not just some meta-blogging platform.
Twitter has got plenty of issues with scaling, if anything WWDC has proved that twitter cannot scale with demand. To use a analogy, a TV station does not cut the commentary of a football match because the system cannot cope with the demand, this is essentially what Twitter did to the community.
It looks like we were spot-on with our estimate of ten times the normal traffic today. Our preparations held and Twitter stayed up! Only one unexpected disruption occured and that was a network problem in our data center which caused a few minutes of service distruption some time after Steve Jobs’ keynote. With that single distruption, our uptime during the event was 97.3%
I love Twitter, and despite the fact I don’t really get it yet. I don’t want to see it disappear because it couldn’t handle its popularity.

 

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WWDC Roundup – iPhone 3G & Mobile Me

WWDC was a bit of a let down, iphone alleys’ coverage by ustream however was fantastic. I was expecting more information and more products, not a grueling 45mins of demo’s of apps we cant use for a month, not quite the usual Apple finesse we have come to appreciate.

One important thing to note was Steve Job’s committed to pricing the new 8gb iPhone at no more that $199US in all 70 countries the iPhone 3g will be sold in by the end of the year. I hope this is the signal of a much bigger push by Apple to price equivalently in all countries. That said they create products people will gladly pay for in some cases even twice such as myself who will be upgrading come July 11th once again.

Surprisingly the announcement of OS X 10.6 dubbed Snow Leopard was pushed from the forefront of the announcement, giving credence to the fact it will not be a stability release just a fit and polish release to keep ahead of the competition. Also .mac will be no longer and be replaced by mobile me, which has to be an improvement of the aging .mac name and technology.

It was a bit of a let down in the fact that Steve had very little stage time, some reported as usually steve looked ill.

Shock Horror – There was no one more thing.

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WWDC 08 Predictions – One More Thing?

Ok So heres my predications:

  • iPhone 2, 
  • iPhone App Store
  • New Firmware for existing iPhones
  • New Version of OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard – Nice and shiny none feature release
  • New Cinema Displays
  • Updated Macbook Pro’s 
  • Twitter will die – Twitter Blog
  • Lets not forget the one more thing that no one guesses, my money is on a Yellow Submarine iPhone and all the Beetles back catalogue on iTunes
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Once your lucky, Twice your stupid.

BBC1 will be web-streamed live through BBC.co.uk as of next year, according to the broadcaster’s director general Mark Thompson.

BBC1 is internet bound

Hoping to capitalise on its impressive iPlayer service the Beeb has decided why not go back to the 90’s and try something they know doesn’t work.

People simply do not want to watch TV in a linear sense anymore, the only content thats worth streaming are sports events, I there isn’t much chance of that happening soon.

The BBC needs to work on iPlayer and getting the BBC online identity sorted out, its abit of a mish mash at the moment. With iPlayer the BBC struck gold and unless they keep pushing they will become a follower not a leader. I think the best idea would be to can live streaming, and just make iPlayer better they would be forgiven for that.