Yet Another Yawn, that is
Common sense is MIA
At the end of the day, it is what works best in the eyes of the user.
Just as users don't know or care which OS is on their cell phones, they generally don't care which OS is on their larger devices. I always thought it was the 90 percent outfit that fostered the notion that there were big differences, to scare people away from trying anything else.
Then Apple came out with the "I'm a Mac" stuff, which I thought was terrible at the time and still do. Seems to be working fine for Apple, but seems pointless other than to inflame discussions about the inherent superiority of one OS over the other. A discussion which doesn't matter to most.
Common sense people will keep flocking, or at least gradually accepting, the stuff that works best for them. Lost in the hype and the flames, that is the secret weapon of the Mac.
Secret Weapon on the Web
"You and your fellow columnists do a marvelous job of providing straightfoward, commonsense material that's enjoyable to read. I really wish more sites out there on the 'net would take that cue."
http://lowendmac.com/misc/10mr/mb0318.html
Blaine sums up what most people think about the Web as well. Too much hype, not enough real world useful. That is how Twitter beats NBC for Olympics coverage*. Big media may be too big too ever "get it". Real world netizens are not nearly so interested in the flash (freudian slip) as in simple access to the information we seek.
People care a lot about how they get their Web information, they just don't always have the choice of getting it the way they want it.
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Twitter beats NBC
http://www.wired.com/playbook/2010/02/golden-games-for-social-media
THE ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF TWITTER? Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame, now engaged in a new venture, SquareUP.com. Surely there was a plan to start making money in there somewhere. Hmm, get people thinking along the lines of how simple communications can be on the Web. Move it one step forward.
The Connection to Apple Server Technology
Twitter is about as pure a client-server architecture as a Web app can be. The server of choice for the Twitter founders, going forward into SquareUP, would logically be what they have found works best.
Twitter staggered under the weight of it's own success a handful of times. Servers went down, temporarily. Yet,Twitter always climbed back out from under the load, usually rather quickly. Considering some sudden massive peaks in popularity, it was an amazing feat to observe.
With 12,500 tweets logged, beginning October 2007, I can speak with a little authority on the subject of Twitter downtime. A few of those tweets were precisely for the purpose of logging dates and times of Twitter downtime!
SquareUP, Help Wanted February 23, 2010
Site Operations Engineer
Responsibilities & Duties
- Configuring Linux and OS X systems.
Hmm. The top pure play in client-server technology for the Web is using two types of servers.
Good hardware is important for laptops, doubly important for servers. Pretty obvious where squareup is investing. And if already invested in hardware, may as well leave the "pretty face" installed. OS X Server is not particularly big. Cycle consuming GUI need not be loaded if not desired. But it is still nice to know it is there, if and when needed. Not everybody knows unix. And a whole lot of people are learning a whole lot about OS X these days.
Who Could Have Guessed Twitter Would Move into MicroPayments?
Tooting my own horn pretty hard here, but I spotted some forward implications for Twitter the first time I saw it. In fact, my second application of Twitter, was for basic accounting. I built a Twitter based check book stubber.
- tweet #742 dated 2007-11-09 07:31:16 twitteraccounting table created and tested
- tweet #748 dated 2007-11-09 09:47:50 twitteracct called with ||xr, type, amt, payee, budget, refnum|| works, search swelectric for example
- x ck 65.60 swelectric utilities 5730 2007-11-09 08:53:35
Twitter, simplest possible interfaces. That is the contribution to Web communications. SquareUP is simply a next logical step foward, increasing the usefulness of the Web for everyday people.
Cheers and a big thanks to Twitter founders and the new SquareUP team for doing what they can to make the Web a simpler way to communicate.
More.. http://www.squareup.com