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Some thoughts on Twitter vs Ecosystem

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Derek

So Twitter is once again in some hot water with their developer community. After a well-intentioned, but poorly executed suggestion to their developer community that they stop working on developing clients and instead work on “vertical” ideas, the feedback they’ve … Continue reading →

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On: Programmable Twitter Clients

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Derek

Loic Lemuer (CEO of Seesmic) recently announced at Microsoft’s Developer Conference that he’ll be releasing a new version of Seesmic that supports plugins. This is huge for developers, as well as users. Up until now the Twitter developer ecosystem has … Continue reading →

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The Reason RSS Cloud Can Work Now

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Derek

Rogers Cadenhead recently wrote a post “The Reason RSS Cloud Failed to Catch On“. In this he argues that RSS Cloud is not sustainable when it begins to scale to thousands of users needing to receive pings every time a … Continue reading →

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Review of the ‘Twhirl’ Twitter Client

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Derek

Twhirl is a relatively new Twitter client that packs just about everything you need for twittering into one Adobe Air based application.  While Twhirl of course handles all the basic things you need out of a Twitter client, I feel … Continue reading →

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