Web2.0

Twitter API vs. Yahoo Web Services - Performance and Reliability in the Cloud

I've noticed the Twitter API is very slow and unreliable. Requests often take 10+ seconds to return. Sometimes they timeout with no response at all. I put together some monitoring tools to see exactly how slow and unreliable the API really is (when it is even available!). This is obviously not a very scientific test; just a ballpark idea of performance. read more

Keynote Systems Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo

Keynote Systems is a provider of on-demand test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience. As an independent third-party, Keynote provides IT and marketing executives with an unbiased view into their Internet services from around the world and enables companies to understand and improve their customer's online and mobile experience. Keynote's test and measurement businesses include: Web performance, mobile quality, streaming & VoIP, and customer experience/UX. Keyn...

RealNetworks Sees Quarterly Loss But Revenue Grows

The company expects $4 million in revenue in the next three months from its acquisition of TryMedia, a pioneer in casual games syndication.

Microsoft Adds to Cloud-Based SOA Platform

Microsoft added this week workflow capabilities to BizTalk Services, the company's platform-in-the-cloud project for SOA and business process management. read more

Scrapboy Brings Facebook to Users' Desktops

Scrapboy Digital Media Corporation announced the availability of Scrapboy, its Facebook desktop application, to users in North America. Scrapboy allows users to stay connected with their friends' Facebook activities on their desktops and store those activities securely on the users' computers, not a remote server.

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Vikings v. Aliens

So Charlotte wants me to spread the web2 love re ex-classmate Dirk Blackman's new production Outlander and why not? (that's our in-house Viking Haldane on the big-boy climbing frame over there on the left for our family readers) As Eva Metalios puts it: Subject: Fw: Dirk needs our help Hey all - After working in the Sisyphean task of being a writer in LA for over two decades, and the three year odyssey that OUTLANDER took to actually be made, the movie our friend Dirk Blackman (Columbia class of...

Django on Twisted Web2

[Chameleo Project Blog] Of course at first, I wondered if running Django on Twisted Web2 could endure the traffic of real fields, but after initializing the application, the resulting reaction speed was quite satisfactory after removing the cache. Now may be the time to think about running Django on Twisted Web2 as an alternative to Apache.

Re: EU becoming a dictatorship??

How can a bunch of self appointed authorities, who granted themselves lifetime immunity for their actions, accountable to no one become a dictatorship? http://www.ricksiegel.com/web2/

Web 2.0 Journal Special: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Project Management

Nowadays we can observe changes going on in management and especially project management in organizations. More and more, organizations are abandoning top-down management style. Among them are the New York Times, Tribune Co., Ernst & Young and many others. Even the world biggest corporations, such as Toyota and IBM, are trying to implement bottom-up management style elements in some of their departments.