Monthly Archives: September 2009

Is Twitter a conduit for Tweets or the whole platform?

I’ve been writing and talking about the possible changes at Twitter which will pull RT’s out of tweets and into the Twitter API, read the post below this one. The guys at Twitter are being really great and asking me … Continue reading

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re:Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus?

Looking at my Google Alerts this morning I saw this one; Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus? ReadWriteWeb – CA,USA XMPP The technology with which IM clients interoperate. Being used by Yammer, Present.ly, … XMPP is low level and not … Continue reading

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Project ReTweet – Is Twitter breaking re-tweeting for some of us?

I was just reading this, which is all about formalising re-tweets via Twitters API; re: http://mashable.com/2009/08/13/details-project-retweet/ It struck me that this could break services like Cleartext ESM where we are proxying Twitter for generic XMPP desktop and mobile clients. We don’t … Continue reading

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New iTunes ‘Home Sharing’ feature

I’m assuming Apple have done all the research around the risk, both security and copyright for this new feature in iTunes; — • Home Sharing helps you manage your family’s iTunes collection between computers in your home. iTunes can automatically transfer … Continue reading

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Email sizes 2003-2009

I recall some research MessageLabs did around 2003 that said email sizes averaged less than 20k, in fact maybe the number was 16k. Anyway about  a year ago I took a look back over 2008′s data and we were seeing … Continue reading

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re The importance of email uptime

A great insight from Michael Osterman on email uptime. http://www.messagingwire.com/spv-26.aspx

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Interesting email conversation

Bob: I’m in the office, best way to get me is IM Alice: you are not on sametime Bob: No, why would I be on a proprietary IM network which locks me into chatting to people on that network only … Continue reading

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