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It's the day when we say we're not dependent on Great Britain. Of course that part of the holiday long ago lost its meaning. But maybe the whole thing, maybe the concept of America has lost its meaning. Matthew Yglesias, a surprisingly young blogger

This post on the Twitter status blog, gives hope to developers wanting to hook into the full Twitter flow, the same flow that now only Summize has access to. Here's what they said: "We're hopeful that once we've improved the stability of the service

I note that a number of programmers I respect are trying to launch instances of the software behind identi.ca. If they're successful, and if there is a decent way to connect them into a federation (meaning we can communicate even if we're using diff

I was catching up with On The Media earlier this week, and who comes on but my friend and former Berkman colleague Rebecca MacKinnon. I love those kinds of surprises, it lets me catch up, in a multimedia sort of way (it's better than reading an essay

A Twitter clone that's all-the-way open? Did Christmas come early this year? http://identi.ca/doc/faq Marshall has a writeup. I am dave over there. Follow me! First thing --> looking for an API. It supports the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, which I ha

Bijan got a preview of the iPhone 2.0 software, which adds location to the camera. It's a piece of the social camera puzzle. When you come back from vacation where there are lots of other people taking pictures, go to Flickr 4.0 and enter the locatio

My Internet writing is so distributed these days, there are five main places I write, and a host of others where I write peripherally. Here are the five: 1. Scripting News (and its RSS feed). 2. The comments here (managed by Disqus). 3. Twitter (used

I caught up with Eric Marcoullier and Jud Valeski of Gnip in Eric's car, this afternoon. http://mp3.newsjunk.com/interviewWithGnip.mp3 Earlier today, on Scripting News, I asked Twitter to use Gnip to communicate with developers so the network can c

Yesterday I wrote a teaser piece masquerading as a vision piece. The vision is not mine, it's Eric Marcoullier's, a very affable and brilliant entrepreneur from San Francisco, who founded MyBlogLog and sold it to Yahoo for big bucks a few years back.

I'm not sure how much of the stress in Twitter is caused by the services that poll its API on behalf of thousands of users, but it's got to be a lot of work to service all those requests that are constantly coming in. Here's why it has so much work t