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- [News] "Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart"Today
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We’ll be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th. Since we’d like for you to have access to all your Pownce messages, we’ve added an export function. Visit pownce.com/settings/export/ to generate your export file. You can then import your posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or WordPress.
I don’t understand what’s going on with the Silicon Valley these days. It used to be that you bought a social site for the community, and tolerated the start-up’s founders for a while before driving them to quit; now they only buy the brains behind the product, and can’t wait to get rid of the users — that makes no sense to me.
I can only hope that Six Apart’s offer was so low that Pownce’s investors had to say “okay, we won’t get any offer better than that, but for the price we’d rather nuke the user base and just let you absorb the engineers.” (Note that I haven’t seen anyone bragging about the price yet.)
But it doesn’t make that much sense, either, as I don’t see what need Six Apart would have for Pownce’s engineers. No offense meant, but it doesn’t strike me that they designed revolutionary technology, or that they had to find ways to deal with tremendous scaling issues, or that Six Apart was in dire need of engineering talent.
- [OpEd] O’Reilly: "Why I Love Twitter"November 29
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Several good points about Twitter’s success that all web service developers should pay attention to. Especially this one, which is applicable to any web 2.0 site:
Twitter even lets competitors (like FriendFeed or Facebook) slurp its content into their services. But instead of strengthening them, it seems to strengthen Twitter. It’s the new version of embrace and extend: inject and take over. […]
There’s a real lesson to Facebook here about giving other services (like Twitter) access to their social graph. They have the best one going, but because they try to keep users coming back to their interface, and even the applications built on their service have to live in Facebook, they end up as a ghetto rather than a true internet service. It’s the data, not the interface! Let other people use your data, build on it, and it will still belong to you. Hold it too tight, and they will compete with it.
With just a little catch — Twitter has no business model whereas Facebook is kinda sorta not very far from being profitable if they wanted to, if I remember correctly.
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- [News] L’amendement anti-ripose graduée sauteNovember 28
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Le Conseil européen des ministres Télécoms a décidé de supprimer l’amendement 138 du Paquet Télécoms. Cet amendement avait par ailleurs été adopté par les députés du Parlement européen le 24 septembre dernier.
Ah bon, c’est possible, ça ?
Déposé par les euro-députés Guy Bono, Daniel Cohn-Bendit et Zazana Roithova, l’amendement 138, qualifié d’anti-riposte graduée, garantissait qu’aucune "restriction aux droits et libertés des utilisateurs finaux ne doit être prise sans décision préalable de l’autorité judiciaire". Il allait à l’encontre du système de la riposte graduée contre le téléchargement illégal voulu par Christine Albanel dans le projet de loi Création & Internet.
- Mac Mini Apple PieNovember 27
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Featuring a laser-cut logo because why not?
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- [News] First µTorrent Mac BetaNovember 26
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The interface is pretty good (Transmission is more streamlined, but µTorrent feels surprisingly native to Leopard — quite the refresher after I tried using Azureus/Vuze for a few months), the feature set is adequate, and it takes 120% of my Mini’s CPU with no transfers at all — I’m not the only one, so it’ll get fixed.
If you’ve got an Intel Mac with Leopard (it will be available for PowerPCs after some bugs are fixed) and you need to download Linux ISOs, feel free to try for yourselves. It’s supposed to be faster than Transmission, I guess.