Damon Clinkscales' Stumblings

The authors of the amazing book Getting Real are at it again...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:20:37 -0500

The authors of the amazing book Getting Real are at it again with Rework.

My copy has been pre-ordered!

From the author of Busting Vegas and Bringing Down the House...

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:31:00 -0500

From the author of Busting Vegas and Bringing Down the House comes the story of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook.

Amidst mixed reviews on Amazon, I am still going to give it a shot.

Restoring accidentally suspended accounts

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:32:21 -0500

twitterstatus:

Earlier today, we accidentally suspended a number of accounts.

We regret the human error that led to these mistaken suspensions and we are working to restore the affected accounts—we expect this to be completed in the next several hours.

One additional note: some the accounts suspended were using the third-party site Tweetlater. However, Tweetlater is not to blame for these suspensions nor is it in violation of our Terms.

Follower/Following delays [Twitter]

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:17:26 -0500

twitterstatus:

We’re working to reduce the amount of time it takes for new follower/followings to take effect. Right now, after you follow or unfollow someone it may take some time for that action to be properly recorded and propagated throughout the system. As a result, you may run into discrepancies such as:

follower and following counts are off

new followings not showing up in your timeline

seeing that you can follow someone you’ve already followed

We’re planning several upgrades to address these issues and will post more as we make progress.

Update (3:03p): Other inconsistencies in addition to the above also exist:

device notification changes for followers (choosing whose updates you get on your phone)

favoriting and unfavoriting of individual tweets

gary: My spot with @jimmyfallon last night I really enjoyed the...

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:04:54 -0500

gary:

My spot with @jimmyfallon last night

I really enjoyed the spot and would love to see what you guys think!

Nice Rack.

Tue, 12 May 2009 13:38:59 -0500

Nice Rack.

@subelsky’s “Things Are Not Always Sunny in the...

Thu, 07 May 2009 17:02:00 -0500

@subelsky’s “Things Are Not Always Sunny in the Cloud” at RailsConf 2009. Good talk.

The Twitter Book by Sarah Milstein and Tim O’Reilly (a...

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:49:00 -0500

The Twitter Book by Sarah Milstein and Tim O’Reilly (a Sneak Preview)

DoesFollow is mentioned in here.

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The...

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:09:00 -0500

Here's to the crazy ones.

The misfits.

The rebels.

The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules.

And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,

disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

They invent. They imagine. They heal.

They explore. They create. They inspire.

They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?

We make tools for these kinds of people.

While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Think Different Ads

This bunny showed up on our doorstep just before Easter. Video...

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:23:00 -0500

This bunny showed up on our doorstep just before Easter.

Video was uploaded to Vimeo with ______________, a cool new app by ________________.

Your move, BMW…

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:45:30 -0500

Your move, BMW…

The Facebook Software Stack

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:40:00 -0500

The Facebook Software Stack:

Filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), Memcache, Thrift, Scribe. Aditya Agarwal is Director of Engineering at Facebook.

Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose sit down and talk about naming...

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:24:00 -0500

Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose sit down and talk about naming companies and angel investing.

Nothing earth-shattering here, but I enjoyed the conversation, nonetheless.

100interviews catches @garyvee after his Q&A Keynote at SXSW...

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:22:00 -0500

100interviews catches @garyvee after his Q&A Keynote at SXSW 2009 in the hallway and talks about ~~social~~ media for a few minutes.

hiten: via i39.tinypic.com

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:42:31 -0500

hiten:

via i39.tinypic.com

“I just twoated all over the place.” I...

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:41:34 -0500

“I just twoated all over the place.”

I couldn’t not link this video.

"We’re updating the Replies feature and referring to it instead as Mentions. In your Twitter..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:29:00 -0500

“We’re updating the Replies feature and referring to it instead as Mentions. In your Twitter sidebar you’ll now see your own @username tab. When you click that tab, you’ll see a list of all tweets referencing your account with the @username convention anywhere in the tweet.”

- @biz on the Twitter Blog

It’s a nice feature and I will enjoy having it. However, this feature was dropped on the developer community like a giant sack of potatoes. No warning. Just a big spud bomb. There are actually quite a few implications of this in the API side if you’ve been relying on Replies to behave one way and now it will start including many more tweets. If you change the Twitter UI (which they did)…fine, no big deal…you show more tweets now. But with the wide range of web and desktop apps that use the Twitter API out there in production, I really can’t believe that there was no warning or time given to actually test this feature out. IMHO, there should have been better communication/coordination with the developer community.

I bought this Energizer Energi To Go iPod/iPhone battery...

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:17:00 -0500

I bought this Energizer Energi To Go iPod/iPhone battery charger offered on Woot the other day. There are definitely times when I run out of phone juice and it’s just really inopportune, so I thought getting a couple of these would be a good idea.

Here’s the thing though. If you look at the Energizer site, nowhere on there does it say that it will work with iPhone. Related: there are no instructions as to which setting to use for the iPhone when attempting to charge it.

Anyhow, I am here to tell you that I charged my iPhone 3G just fine with it set to the 80GB iPod setting. I think this is just a positioning the connector thing rather than a how much juice do we spit out thing.

Dublin Dr. Pepper Sightings (Austin,TX)

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:49:44 -0500

dublindp:

Central Market (6-pack)

Cabo Bob’s (Fountain)

Mangia Pizza (Can,Bottle)

Tacodeli (Bottle)

Rudy’s BBQ (Bottle)

Might Fine Burgers & Shakes (Bottle)

Austin’s own Hayes Davis presents to Austin on Rails on...

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:20:00 -0500

Austin’s own Hayes Davis presents to Austin on Rails on Building TweetReach Using Sinatra, Tokyo Cabinet/Tyrant, and Grackle