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Twitter API Limiting will Lead to Revenue Model

The twitterati and some Twitter App Makers have been up in arms regarding twitters recent API changes that will mean a 20,000 limit will be placed on whitelisted apps.
I think the 20,000 number is irrelevant, because of the growth twitter is going through any number will have been perceived as too low.
Money, Money, Money
They [...]

21Jan2009 | Nick Halstead | 11 comments | Continued

Make It Scale

Last week I was invited along to speak at the Make IT Scale conference. It covered a wide range of scaling issues mainly very technical. I come from a Games Industry background and I wanted to get across how performance is critical and that everything should be done to get speed before you think about [...]

3Dec2008 | admin | 3 comments | Continued

Yahoo Tackles Semantic Web

TechCrunch released information today that Yahoo is about to join in the semantic web goodness game. I thought I would quickly write up something from a developers point of view what would come out the other end for users.
I have not got the full list of micro-formats being supported but lets go with the [...]

13Mar2008 | Nick Halstead | 4 comments | Continued

OpenSocial will force Facebook to open up

After catching the MySpace/OpenSocial news my immediate question was how quickly is Facebook now going to open up? Do they have a choice? not a chance. The list as it stands - MySpace, Bebo, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle, already named as the anti-facebook coalition will mean that they have [...]

1Nov2007 | Nick Halstead | 5 comments | Continued

Future of Feeds

One of the hardest parts of building fav.or.it has been compatibility issues with all the different feed formats. RSS in particular has been used and abused on a grand scale and it really opened my eyes when we started building our aggregator. We use Zend Framework so although we looked around at a lot of [...]

15Oct2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Scoble Search

Scoble wrote late last week that Mahlo, Techmeme and Facebook is going to kick googles butt which is funnily just what I was saying back in April when I wrote the Death of Google Search

Here are few quotes of what I wrote back then,
The increase in popularity of social sites has spread into the search [...]

27Aug2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued
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