Time For An Update
Wednesday, Jul 23, 2008, 8:00 pm | In GeneralSo its been a while since anything substantial was posted here on my blog. That’s not cool. Shame on me. Well to remedy this situation, I’m posting something. Not just any something, but a preview of what’s to come.
Not only have I been working on a full re-design of thejakemarsh.com - I’ve also been working on a system for live streaming and chat using Ustream.tv. Both of which are reflected in the spy shot below.
So everyone can look forward to that.
Other than that, I’ve been busy with the day job. (http://tilestack.com for the curious) Been redesigning and re-factoring and reinventing the code base there, gearing up for a pretty substantial release. We’re going to have user invites and such, its going to be an all around good time.
Today was an interesting day for the internet. Not only did Facebook launch a few things at their F8 Keynote, but Twitter had a bit of a near death experience. As of 5:30 PM CST I had almost 0 followers and I followed 0 people. That would be a decrease of about 1500% or so I guess. Turns out a screw-up over at Twitter HQ was to blame, affected almost every single user and they’ve (as of about an hour ago) started restoring all the data from a backup made 12 hours prior. Which is fine I guess, but man, can you just imagine if another large site had a data loss this large and widespread? If Digg, Facebook, MySpace or YouTube just started reporting that you had no views, friends or comments on your wall, the internet would revolt. It’d be like the 60’s riots for the digital age. Just a thought. Twitter, lets not let this happen again.
Also, MANY of you have written asking about the winner/details of my iPhone contest. While I’m not quite ready to announce anything yet, I can say there will still be a winner. So everyone can relax on that front. I promise an update is coming on that real soon.
In closing, I guess just keep your eyes peeled on the site. Subscribe to my RSS feed! Like no seriously, right now. Click this link right here and subscribe. It will change your life. Well not really, but it may enhance it slightly.
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Your redesign is looking pretty good, as I said on twitter when you posted it. Looking forward to the launch of it to see the full version. A timeline on the redesign?
It seems every time the FailWhale fades away and twitter improves (I hadn’t seen the FailWhale in awhile before the past few days) it gets hit with something else. It looks like most of that is being fixed but it really is crazy the problems twitter has had over the past year. Plus spam is getting crazy. I was getting 3-5 spam followers a week and now I’m up to about 4-5 a day on most days.
Comment by James Fleeting — July 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm #
New design looks great so far, I like the live streaming thing, I’ve had that up on my blog for a while now, but utilizing Stickam instead.
I know MySpace released an app already, but were you still working on yours? I know you could listen to the music on it, which is the part I was most interested in how you got to work.
Keep up the great work… and update more!
Comment by Corey — July 23rd, 2008 at 11:29 pm #
And what would we do if, one day, Google were empty?
Comment by Charles Forsyth — July 24th, 2008 at 3:43 am #
Wouldn’t that be a decrease of 100% regardless of the number of followers?
Comment by Andrew — July 24th, 2008 at 7:31 am #
hey jake, I was watching your youtube videos of the myspace app you created for iPhone/iPod touch, and I was wondering if you ever finished it. I know that you can get a new myspace app in the appstore, but my iPod touch is already jailbroken and I don’t feel like going through the hassle of restoring it and paying $10 for 2.0 firmware. thanks in advance!
Comment by patrick — July 30th, 2008 at 12:41 am #