Sunday June 10, 2007
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Alan Coopersmith’s blog
Random thoughts of a disorganized mind...
(and though it should be obvious, while Sun pays me to think about things, they disclaim any responsibility for these thoughts, nor do I claim what I say matches in any way what Sun thinks)
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Sunday June 10, 2007
Kinda like microblogging meets slow-mo IRC...
I was trying to explain twitter to my wife and the best I could come up with is “kinda like microblogging meets slow-mo IRC,” which didn't make any sense to her. After a bit more trying, “like a web forum with short posts” made more sense to her, but my personal dislike of web forums kept me from thinking of them like that. Fortunately more prolific and more widely read bloggers than I have spent a lot of time describing twitter and it's impact, so you can go read them for a better description.
Twitter is starting to gain popularity at Sun too, both as a new communications method to explore, and as a Solaris-hosted Web 2.0 service. They even have recently been a example of using DTrace to improve the performance of their Ruby-on-Rails platform.
So now you can also find me at http://twitter.com/alanc 
. I can't promise anything profound or in-depth in 140 characters, but it should get updated a bit more often than this long-form blog.
Posted at 10:23PM Jun 10, 2007 by Alan Coopersmith in General |
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