Posts Tagged with ‘identi.ca’

No Data Portablity? Ok, We’ll Use FriendFeed

Svetlana Gladkova

Is not it funny how creators of various web 2.0 tools give us the tools that they intend for one thing and eventually users find unexpected uses that the developers did not even think about? This happened with Twitter - everyone talked about microblogging and we started to use Twitter mostly as a communications tool and now the creators explain that the platform can't cope with the load because they never built it as a messenger tool.
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The Week’s Whale Sized Workaround

Leslie Poston

I had the idea for this post earlier this week when I realized that Twitter's API being broken was causing issues, but we still weren't leaving. Cyndy covered that failure of Twitter users to vote with our feet in her article on Tweeterboard closing, and I touched on it briefly this week when I talked about Twitter telling its own users to access their replies through Summize. In spite of all of this, we aren't leaving - we're creating workarounds.
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