Monthly Archives: January 2008

The Pain of Being Down and Out

By Mark Evans | Published: January 31, 2008
A necessary evil for many online businesses is having service outages so they can perform scheduled maintenance. For most companies, this is pretty dull stuff that few, if anyone, notices. There are times, however, when routine maintenance is far from routine. Twitter discovered this the hard way earlier this week when scheduled maintenance to upgrade its [...]
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InstaPaper: A Stroke of Bookmarking Brilliance

By Mark Evans | Published: January 31, 2008
It’s not that often these days that an online service jumps out and demands to be embraced but Instapaper is a pleasant exception to the rule. Instapaper is a simple tool that lets you “bookmark” articles, blog posts, etc. that you find interesting but want to read later. After dragging a booklet widget to your [...]
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Taking Twitter Seriously

By Mark Evans | Published: January 30, 2008
Twitter can be easily dismissed as IM-Lite or a tool for people with short attention spans but, interestingly enough, it is also starting to gain traction as a serious communications tool for people to communicate about serious stuff…like politics. ReadWriteWrite’s Josh Catone has a great post looking at Twitter’s pros and cons, and how it is [...]
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Would You Pay for Online Applications?

By Mark Evans | Published: January 30, 2008
A few days ago, CenterNetworks asked whether anyone would pay $1/month to subscribe to an RSS feed or, perhaps, $4.95 for a package of 10 feeds. Not surprisingly, the response was unenthusiastic. With so much content being pumped out every day, how many blogs are worth $1 – especially when many people are reluctant to pay [...]
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DEMO, Alright Already

By Mark Evans | Published: January 29, 2008
DEMO has barely started but the incessant coverage of every single development has already become aggravating – and there’s still another day to go. It’s like the blogosphere feels compels to cover this conference the same way that reporters are covering the Super Bowl, which coincidently happens just 260 miles away this Sunday in Phoenix. Don’t get [...]
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Automattic’s Aggressive Ambitions

By Mark Evans | Published: January 29, 2008
Hot on the heels of snagging $29.5-million in venture capital, Automattic made another announcement – this time unveiling a Twitter-like service called Prologue in which Wordpress users can exchange short, Twitter-like messages. Matt Mullenweg claims Automattic isn’t going after Twitter but that’s just his Texas charm at work because it’s increasingly difficult not to get the [...]
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