SitePoint Podcast #7: Let’s Get Twitter Out of Our System

By Kevin Yank | January 23, 2009 | Podcast

Episode 7 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Brad Williams (@williamsba), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), and Kevin Yank (@sentience) with special guest Sarah Milstein (@SarahM).

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Episode Summary

Here are the topics covered in this episode:

Google Axes a Number of Services

Google Axes Dodgeball, Jaiku, Video and More (TechCrunch)
Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor (Google)

Lycos Shuts Down Mail, Tripod

Lycos Europe To Shutter Lycos Mail, Tripod On February 15 (TechCrunch)

IE8 RC Will Be Out By the End of January

Whitehouse.gov Relaunches with Cutting Edge Design

change.gov Becomes whitehouse.gov (O’Reilly Radar)
CSS Sprites on whitehouse.gov (Dave Shea)

Listener Feedback from Karn (WebKarnage)

Main Show Topic: Twitter

Twitter catches up to Digg (Hitwise)
Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model (ReadWriteWeb)
Sarah’s Report: Twitter and the Micro-Messaging Revolution: Communication, Connections, and Immediacy—140 Characters at a Time (O’Reilly)
Sarah’s Webcast: Advanced Twitter for Business: Conversation, Community, and Profit—140 Characters at a Time (O’Reilly)

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Kevin Yank

Kevin began developing for the Web in 1995 and is a highly respected technical author. He wrote Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP and MySQL, a practical step-by-step guide published by SitePoint, and he's co-author of the SitePoint Tech Times, a bi-weekly newsletter for technically-minded web developers. Kev believes that any good webmaster should have seen at least one episode of MacGyver.

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{ 8 comments }

Mr pseudonym February 7, 2009 at 3:19 am: Not to be a wet blanket, but there are a few basic courtesies that people are expected to observe in public. Like not blowing into the microphone. Please. Thank you.
Christrophe February 5, 2009 at 6:48 pm: Thanks a lot for this work !
Anonymous February 4, 2009 at 4:29 am: Great show. It seems all I hear about lately is twitter. As simple as it is, I still feel like there is something I don’t know about it. Thanks for clearing some of that for me.
One note on the production: Please turn off your Skype sound effects during the show!
Digitoko January 29, 2009 at 8:57 pm: Google has long been an advocate for network neutrality in the US, and their latest salvo in the effort to make sure ISPs must treat all traffic equally is the backing of a new lab that provides tools for users to test for bandwidth throttling.
KVM Switches
Kevin Yank January 27, 2009 at 1:18 pm: Thanks for the feedback, K! I’ve changed the iTunes subscribe link so that if the podcast isn’t available in your home store, it will offer to redirect you to the iTunes US Store, where the podcast is available.
K January 26, 2009 at 1:53 am: Hey guys, awesome podcast but sadly i can’t download it via iTunes. The error i get is “Your request could not be completed, the item you’ve requested is not currently in the Malaysian store”. Sad thing is i can download the Boagworld podcast via iTunes. I don’t know much about how i spread your podcast to your audience but is this something that is done by Apple on purpose or Sitepoint itself? Please do something about it
mhalbrook January 24, 2009 at 4:33 am: Odds are the change.gov site became a MS based site due to Governmental requirements. I would imagine it’s a contract thing with Microsoft.
Kevin Yank January 23, 2009 at 1:47 pm: A couple of post-recording items from this episode:
Sarah conducted a previous “Twitter for Business” webcast in November 2008, which is available to watch on YouTube.
Also, Sarah dropped me an email to mention something she forgot during the show:
An important point I neglected to mention is that Twitter has succeeded in part because of its APIs. Although there has been some controversy about whether they are open enough, there’s no question in the big picture that the data the company shares has allowed the service to expand in ways it never could have otherwise.