Quora‘s like Yahoo! Answers, only it’s not. It’s the next big thing. It’s addictive, and if you follow me on twitter you’ll soon find I’m and addict myself.
I was number 516,91, which means nothing.
The crew at foursquare was kind enough to put up a graphic showing global growth over the last two years.
Via Vincos and TechCrunch.
We just got back from The Netherlands where Hyves is all the rage. Still, even without The Netherlands, it’s Facebook’s world, y’all.
Regarding the dream of a mobile application, I already had a couple of good conversations with one of you who had an idea they wanted to set in motion. Was (is) quite silly, but it would work, and I would buy it… so would many of you. It would be quite fun to build.
One more conversation to get to this week, but if you still have ideas, let me know. I’ll be meeting with the software engineer himself next week and I need to have your idea prior to leaving town Thursday.
I harp with people all the time to “just make a decision”. Taking calculated risks is fun, but they have to be calculated. In my brief 30 years my calculated risks surrounded attending a university where I knew no one, solo backpacking through Europe, and moving to the Pacific Northwest with only a room found on Craigslist and no job.
Some risks proved fruitful, some not. Though despite the outcome I wouldn’t change a thing because even through “failure” a ‘Plan B’ and sometimes ‘Plan C’ and ‘Plan D’ were in place prior to action.
With all that said I’m about to kick my own rear into gear, calculating a next step if I aim to meet one of my 2011 personal goals. One of my goals this year, no matter if it flies or flops, is to launch a mobile app compatible with iOS and Android.
One could easily argue that going it alone is quite silly. Therefore, if you’ve got the idea, then I’ve got the resources. We can even draw up an agreement to prevent one another from going all “Winklevi” on each other.
My words not ~2.5 years ago. And now, I sit on the verge of 9,000 tweets.
To quote Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz:
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way”
I was the only blogger on the Internet without a blog post dedicated to this issue, so I thought I would chime in. It’s an incredible, joyous event that most have all wrong.
My favorite quote from this revolution came from TechCrunch:
Twitter and Facebook are indeed useful tools, but they are not tools of revolution — at least, no more than Paul Revere’s horse was. People are the tools of revolution, whether their dissent is spread by whisper, by letter, by Facebook, or by some means we haven’t yet imagined. What we, and the Egyptians, should justly be proud of, is not just those qualities which set Egypt’s revolution apart from the last hundred, but those which are fundamental to all of them.
That part where he says “by some means we haven’t yet imagined”… that gives us Internet/gadget junkies tingles.
Any of you TechCrunch readers are as tired as I am for having to read about Quora every other post. I love Quora, but talking about Quora and talking about content on Quora are two completely different things.
Kevin McAllister is not happy about his downtime.
In 2010, Daxko’s uptime was 99.96%. This means that our systems for our users of Daxko Opperations, Daxko Accounting, and Daxko Connect were only offline for 0.04% of the entire year.
By comparison, Amazon Web Services’ uptime was 99.95%. Amazon… AMAZON. 0.01% is 10 additional minutes of downtime.
Make no mistake, hundreds of factors go into high availability. However, downtime is just like any other problem or pothole in business… it’s essentially unavoidable. All companies face the same challenges and can plan according to their size and scope.
Ten minutes is a long time when you’re ordering a book or tracking a package that is set to deliver in time for someone’s birthday.
Ten minutes is a long time. I can’t sit still for two minutes.
Daxko was prepared for growth, traffic, and (perhaps most importantly) the unexpected in 2010. At the end of the day the companies who do just a little bit better are the ones who position themselves to be the best. 10 minutes.
Amazon, y’all. Amazon.
I’m trying to figure out the culprit. My apologies for spamming your feed.
…until the Howell household has the Internet once more.
To be honest, these past few days have been incredibly relaxing.
If you have a Twitter account, and we follow one another, you’ve seen me complain attempt to speak to Chick-fil-A about their lack of a mall unit or FSU (free standing unit) in the Seattle metropolitan area.
No… the Chick-fil-A Express two hours away in Bellingham does not count.
I always thought Chick-fil-A saw my tweets; now, I know they see them.
See the timeline (complete with Ernest participation!) below.
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Article, via HBR & CNN: Why Hackers Love 8-Character Passwords
With processors getting speedier and password-hacking software freely available on the web, the 8-letter password may soon be obsolete. Georgia Tech researchers used graphics cards to crack 8-character passwords in two hours; divining 12-character passwords, by contrast, would have taken more than 17,000 years. The researchers say any password shorter than a dozen characters could soon be vulnerable.
Nice to see more of you have joined. Yes, I’m on it. Yes, it’s still a little odd to me, but so was Twitter and now I’m addicted to Twitter.
Join. Link it to your Twitter. Be careful that you don’t over share… it’s annoying, I’ve done it, accidentally won a badge for it.
I must say that my favorite part about these Olympics have been exchanging comments in real time via Twitter. It’s always nice to know that we’re thinking the same thing.
