10 Oct
2007
An unordered list of thoughts I had during a conference call with a potential client today
9 Oct
2007
Graphing Social Patterns: Joyent Web Application Presentation
Here are the slides from my panel with Jeff Barr of Amazon Web Services at the Graphing Social Patterns conference. We were surprised we are more than competitive to Amazon Web Services for real world web applications that actually have actual users (i.e. not just a proof-of-concept). In the slides, we profile a top 50 Facebook application costing $3000 per month (an actual customer). I’ve used the calculator on Amazon Web Services’ site and the same traffic and compute costs more than $30,000 on Amazon. Please check. For an emerging application (“long tail”) we show an application running on a large Joyent Accelerator (=$125/month) costing more than $200 on Amazon Web Services. As I said, please check our math. Kudos to Amazon for evangelizing the idea of on-demand infrastructure. But these real-world examples show Amazon Web Services has some significant work to do to offer customers actual cost benefits. Joyent offers those benefits today. Please check our math. Maybe Amazon could bundle free shipping with that…
9 Oct
2007
Our world is constantly shifting, like sand beneath our feet. But this can be a good thing. We must not fear, but adapt and evolve. Opportunity lies where we often least expect it.
Heroes (via Jan)
8 Oct
2007
Of The Tessarolizr And Inflating FeedBurner Stats
Currently doing the rounds in the blogosphere is Tony Siino’s FeedBurner app, the Tessarolizr, that increases the number of readers in your FeedBurner stat counter due to a recent bug found.
If you want to try it out, just add the last part of your FeedBurner feed (which appears after http://feeds.feedburner.com/) and the number of readers you’d like to have. Next, hit “Tessarolizzami!” (great word - English translation: “To do a Tessarolo”) and hey presto.
For the benefit of international readers, Tommaso Tessarolo, namesake of the said app, is the Founder of Ne3TV. The app was developed by Tony Siino after an Italian blogger climbed his way up the top 100 of Italy’s version of Technorati, BlogBabel. At the same time, Tessarolo’s blog was excluded from BlogBabel and Siino said he wanted to show how the stats from FeedBurner could make classification data inaccurate.
Apparently since the bug, BlogBabel has stopped using data from FeedBurner to calculate it’s rankings. For Italian readers used to seeing Beppè Grillo and Pandemia hanging on to the number one spots, here’s what the Italian blog chart looks like when the data from FeedBurner is used.
I caught up with Tony Siino and, at the time of writing, the bug had still not been fixed and the Tessarolizr (which was developed as a joke) has already been used over 700 times.
Looking forward to seeing the phrase: “We need to Tessarolize the stats” entering the tech dictionaries shortly
8 Oct
2007
20071007-IMG_5602.jpg: Clara is nu een dagje oud. (via Photos from Frank Louwers (Openminds))
Frank Louwers's Posterous
"Mr. Operations" and co-founder at a web development and hosting company.
Co-founder at a social media startup.
In favour of a New World Order
Master of Science by training, unix-fanboy by trade.
