Apple banged on the big drum, but not much came out.
10.09.09Filed Under: tech with 0 Comments
The classic pitfall of screaming to loud and delivering to little is something one would believe that Apple knew by heart. Well, apparently not with the ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll’-event on Wednesday.
While the rumor mill had gone crazy over the last months (like it always does), the expectations where at a all time high and even though Apple introduced a video camera to the iPod Nano, new iPhone os 3.1, new hardware platform for the touch and minor software-changes, I think we all felt a little disappointed and maybe even cheated.
The event itself was very centralized around the Apple Ipod Touch product-line and specifically using the Touch as a gaming platform and demoed Madden NFL 10, Nova, Assassin’s Creed, Riddim Ribbon. Where Riddim Ribbon looked particularly exciting.
Steve Jobs seems to be back in full force and did a much appreciated appearance on the stages which received standing ovations. Hopefully he’ll be a breath of fresh air for Apple as they really need to “wow” a bit more than the ‘It’s Only Rock and Roll’-event to stay on the cutting edge.
How many users does Twitter have, really?
08.09.09Filed Under: tech with 0 Comments
Through a pet-project of mine (foratweet.com) i accidentally stumble upon some interesting Twitter stats.
As it’s possible to extract your userid from the twitter-api, giving you a somewhat unique way to check how many users there are on Twitter. Given that they use a sequential userid-system, which many indications point toward.
So, how many does users twitter have?
Using the data from the API i found out the following statistics.
- I created my account back in spring 2007 which gave me userid 704XXX. (http://twitter.com/tommienu)
- I created another account this spring (2009) for a project of mine which gave me userid 26720XXX (http://twitter.com/slashat)
- I finally created an account this Summer (July) which gave me userid 63523XXX (http://twitter.com/foratweet/)
And if this data is sequential, we’re looking at roughly 70 000 000 users worldwide and its approx 100 times bigger 2009 than 2007 with a 10000% user-increase.
This also means that Twitter would have needed to scale their systems with over 10 000%, something we inevitably know that they failed with, which actually gives those numbers some substance.
Casey Case Converter Firefox add-on approved!
19.07.09Filed Under: tech with 4 Comments
My new add-on Casey Case Converter was recently accepted into the public listing on Mozilla Firefox:
Congratulations! Your nominated add-on, Casey Case Converter, has been reviewed by a Mozilla Add-ons editor who approved your add-on to be public.
Casey is a moderators dream come true, it automatically format caps correctly. Which is a big hassle to do manually, especially on big posts. While it’s pretty limited in its current form (only Proper-case, UPPER-case and lower-case), i plan to extend it further. Especially now when the Mozilla peeps think it’s good enough for public release.
Check it out at:
http://addons.mozilla.org/addon/9920
Selenium IDE – patched for Firefox 3.5
26.06.09Filed Under: tech with 4 Comments
Since my recent upgrade to the Firefox 3.5 betas i found that some of my Add-ons wasn’t working properly. Significantly Selenium IDE which i frequently use for automated website tests. So a bit of hacking and a with good portion of magic i managed to patch the current 1.0.1 release into a compatible Firefox 3.5 version.
I probably goes without saying that this is a highly experimental release with no guarantees what so ever. But I’ve been running all my tests on it and it works fine. So i you can’t wait for the official release, use this one:
http://public.tommie.nu/tmp/selenium-ide-1.0.1.1-ff3-5.xpi
Västtrafik på Twitter och Tugg.nu
07.04.09Filed Under: commercials, general shitchat, swedish posts with 0 Comments
Vi lever i Web 2.0 men tyvärr hänger alla inte företag med i svängarna. Så ibland får man agera barmhärtig samarit och styra upp ett och annat åt företagen. Västtrafik t.ex, dom var snabba med att bjuda på en RSS över akuta trafikförändringar, men dom har inte hoppat på Twitter/Tugg.nu-vagnen än. Så tja, man får väl göra det åt dom.
Alla trafikförändiringar synkas till http://tugg.nu/vasttrafik och vidare till http://twitter.com/vasttrafik, så är du medlem på någon av dessa kan du följa dem.
Om du hänger kvar i RSS-världen och av någon anledning inte vill köra på Västrafiks egna RSS kan du följa tugg.nus, http://tugg.nu/vasttrafik/rss
Urpremiär för Sveriges nya teknik-podcast, Slashat.se!
25.03.09Filed Under: swedish posts, tech with 0 Comments
Urpremiären på Sveriges nya teknik-podcast bjuder på en ytterst välartikulerad introduktion av våra värdar, Jezper och Tommie. Men även en djupdykning i Apples In App Store, iPhone OS 3.0, DjHero och mycket annat. Så bänka dig dig framför datorn och slå på högtalarna, för Slashat.se Avsnitt 001 är här!
Så vad väntar du på, hoppa direkt till http://slashat.se och lyssna!
http://slashat.se/2009/03/25/slashat-avsnitt-001-premiar/
Could Laconi.ca and open microblogging be the end of Twitter?
23.09.08Filed Under: tech with 0 Comments
Ever heard of Laconi.ca? If not, it’s time to look it up. Its a decentralized microblogging system, basically Twitter with one million different communities where the different community-members can follow each other. There is no need to actually sign up to site X if you which to follow person Y on site X. Which makes this system very interesting.
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United states of England
22.09.08Filed Under: general shitchat with 1 Comment
Found this whilst browsing around the tubes, pretty funny if ya ask me 
In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy.
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Introducerar Tugg.nu, en Svensk Twitter!
28.08.08Filed Under: swedish posts with 0 Comments
Håller på att experimentera lite med en svensk klon av http://twitter.com. Behövs verkligen det kanske du frågar dig? Tja, jag tycker nog det. Twitter.com är onekligen störst, men uteslutande på engelska (samt alltför ofta “over capacity”). Vilket gör det lite omständligt för oss Svenskar att hitta varandra där. Naturligtvis kan ni posta på Svenska på Twitter, men det trotsa syftet med siten lite. Speciellt om du har många amerikanska/engelskspråkiga personer som följer dig.
Framtida planer innefattar stöd för Facebook Status Updates (åt båda hållen, skriver ni något på Facebook publiseras det på Tugg.nu och vise versa), WordPress pluggar och plugins till andra blogsiter.
Sugen på att prova? Kolla in http://tugg.nu
Twitter Updates for 2008-08-27
27.08.08Filed Under: twitter with 0 Comments
- Slow day at work today, been going trough piles of technical documentation for a software we consider buying. Fun? Nope, not really. #