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  • Twitter's problems are the result of architecture, XMPP may be the answer

    The problem with scaling Twitter is not the choice of framework, but the choice of architecture. In other words, abandoning Ruby On Rails probably isn't going to solve all of their problems. At the same time, I'm not sure that decentralization is necessary and comes with its own set of challenges...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-05-2008

  • Firefox 3 Beta 3

    I've been using the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 3 for a few days on my home machine. It's not quite ready for prime-time - I've found that in particular a lot of AJAX stuff, like on Twitter, doesn't work. Not sure if the implementation is just not finished, but that's a little...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-19-2008

  • Facebook opens up with a JavaScript API

    Facebook just announced a new JavaScript Client Library that allows you to make Facebook API calls from any web site . In other words, you can start building Facebook applications are live outside of Facebook. I agree with Charlie that this move " makes membership in Facebook that much more valuable...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-27-2008

  • Passion and its role in evaluating new product ideas

    Evan Williams has an absolutely wonderful post up about evaluating a new product idea . I think Marc is spot on - the "personally compelling" criteria is the one that stands out. Last on the list, but probably the first question I ask myself is: How important to me is it that this product exists...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-26-2007

  • Congrats to Faisal on his new role on the ADO.NET team

    My good buddy Faisal has moved from MSBuild to ADO.NET . Specifically, he's the Program Manager for LINQ to SQL and the Object Service for Entity Framework. He says you'll hear a lot more from him on these things, but of course if past history is any indication his blogging will be short lived...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-05-2007

  • What exactly is an iPhone application?

    Scoble mentions 3 new iPhone apps today from Newsgator, Bloglines, and Google. It's interesting that companies keep saying they are doing "iPhone development", when really these are nothing more than sites skinned to look more natural on the iPhone. The iPhone is the only mobile phone that...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-24-2007

  • There's no such thing as Web 2.0

    I've said before that I hate the term Web 2.0 but that it's more than a buzzword . Perhaps what I meant to say is what Marc Andreessen said: there's no such thing as Web 2.0 ( via Fred Wilson ) - thing being the key word there. The first Web 2.0 conference was held in the fall of 2004, and coincided...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-11-2007

  • Microsoft Silverlight

    A lot of people are very excited about Silverlight , the technology that was formerly known as WPF/E. Jesse says it will give Flash a real run for its money because of a better video story (emphasis in original). Unlike Flash, Silverlight (the new name) will support DRM, it supports the industry standard...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-25-2007

  • Be positive in your dialogs

    Raymond says that dialog boxes are not the place for logic puzzles . I ran across a configuration dialog box that had the item "Turn off Feature X". This is a negative-sense checkbox, which turns your dialog box into a logic puzzle. Checkboxes should be phrased positively. "Use Feature X". (The only...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-01-2007

  • Google launches Google Apps Premier Edition

    As rumored yesterday , Google made a major announcement : a subscription package of premium, hosted business applications. (Man, Arrington's sources are scary good). The service combines GMail, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Google Docs & Spreadsheets for $50 per user annually. I still insist that...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-22-2007
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