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Re: blog.cpinto.net: Eu vou votar... na esplanada.

cpinto — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:17:04 -0000

Olá, a citação de Churchill não se aplica porque não sou da opinião que se devia voltar a uma forma de governo já experimentada, para mais no contexto em que o Churchill afirmou isso.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: Eu vou votar... na esplanada.

cpinto — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:56:21 -0000

Boas, como afirmei, a ter de existir alguma identificação que seja como o Cartão de Cidadão mas acho não viria mal algum ao mundo se não houvesse um Bilhete de Identidade.

Re: On AppStores and m-billing

cpinto — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:39:27 -0000

Given that the vast majority of applications on AppStores are being developed by small companies I'd argue that it then becomes even more important to put up such an m-payments solution.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

rcarmo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:21:28 -0000

Let me clean out the messy bits first - and if you want to, I can add
you to the Google project :)

R.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

cpinto — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:43:37 -0000

please do share, you've got my email. I'm actually looking forward to have a peek

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

rcarmo — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:39:10 -0000

Oh. If you like the SVN version, I can give you access to the top-secret bleeding-edge one :)

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

cpinto — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:16:09 -0000

Yes that looks like a great solution. I've been wanting to fiddle with
yaki for a long long time, I may just as well have a go at putting it
on gae later this week with all that nifty features you have in your
blog.

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Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

rcarmo — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:41:53 -0000

Never mind him. Anyway, regarding markup, you'll notice that 99% of my stuff is Textile. Including the linkblog posts, which are posted... on an iPod or iPhone, via del.icio.us.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

cpinto — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:03:18 -0000

Also, HTTP won, didn't you get the memo? ;-)

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

cpinto — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:00:16 -0000

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Re: blog.cpinto.net: A call to Portuguese startups: I want your schwag!

nmariz — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:43:50 -0000

LOL. The pony is awesome!

Re: blog.cpinto.net: A call to Portuguese startups: I want your schwag!

cpinto — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:24:37 -0000

yes indeed, but maybe the pony version? :-)

Re: Welcome to Handivi!

cpinto — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:29:15 -0000

To be honest, I'm not really keen on the way georef is being applied today which is little less than simply tracking people's moves. A useful use for it, though, is to apply context so that if for example you take a series of photos they can be grouped by location so that on your photo album you'd have a "Lisbon" group.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Handivi

cpinto — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:12:11 -0000

hi, thanks for the feedback Alcides. To lmjabreu, when you have a private profile your messages won't end up in the public timeline. Can you please check if you have a private profile?

Re: blog.cpinto.net: No free lunches

cpinto — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:16:05 -0000

Yeah, I've read that too. It's a good thing they support prepaid plans.

I'm also a Vodafone happy customer, have been for many years now, my
only wish is for they to come up with some data-plan for people who are
more interested in data than in voice/sms/mms (specially the latter). If
3G USB dongles aren't overloading their networks, leeching YouTube and
3MB emails, my 3G mobile won't do that either no matter how many 3KB
pages I download.

On this matter, my reasoning if that if they don't, someone will (think
3).

Re: blog.cpinto.net: Barcamp FCT cool down

Bruno Pedro — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:43:44 -0000

It makes all the sense in the world as you write it now. Not the way you were presenting it.

Downtime value is proportional to the value derived from the product/service/platform you're being deprived of.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: Barcamp FCT cool down

cpinto — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:51:27 -0000

Hi Bruno,

you presented a strong case, maybe I should have worded my opinions a bit better. It's not that you should not care about uptime, you should. Availability of your service plays a very big role in the whole experience. But that doesn't necessarily mean that if you have a hiccup now and then you'll start losing people left and right to your competitors. But again, that depends a lot on what service you are providing. Yes, if salesforce.com is down you'll get angry mobs with torches and pitchforks knocking down your doors asking for refunds. That's because people depend on salesforce.com to make money, they're not using it for fun. If google.com becomes unavailable you'll go back to another provider but as soon as it's up you'll start using Google again, because the quality of their search results is, so far, unmatched. If Flickr is down, yes a professional user will complaint, possibly take their money elsewhere (smugmug.com for example) but probably just send the pictures via email and sort things out with Flickr.

At the end of the day, it's exactly as you wrote: uptime relevance is proportional to the cost of downtime. The bigger the downtime cost the more you'll care about it. If to that you add up the unavailability of a substitute then downtime cost increases exponentially. Essentially, with salesforce.com there is no immediate substitute, whereas with Google you go use something else and with Flickr you go back to email. (Did that make any sense? I'm not asking if you agree with me, just if it makes any sense hehe)

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

steveivy — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:57:22 -0000

I'll admit some work does need to be done on where different levels of information in the system live, esp when discussing the application / xmpp server boundary. We've been discussing this for some time on the DiSo mailing list (http://groups/google.com/group/diso-project) and frankly, have not solved it yet to my satisfaction.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

cpinto — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:50:16 -0000

you are, of course, correct but: will you store pubsub notifications offline? if so, how would you do it if you had a usage spike. if not, how would you show a history of what has been happening to the user?

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

cpinto — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:27 -0000

useless yeah, but utterly fun

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

steveivy — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:41:33 -0000

cpinto,

With xmpp, as long as the server your account is on support offline messaging, the data gets stored on your server, not the original service (ala Twitter).

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

cpinto — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:20:02 -0000

I'm just trying to get the ball rolling, most of the questions up there
refer to possible solutions I've heard or read about. My stance is that
I know nothing of Twitter's internals and so prefer not to pass real
judgment, but I have to admit that with the speculation surrounding it,
it makes for a seriously engaging water cooler topic.

With regards to PubSub, I have my reservations that it would survive a
large number of messages published by a very large number of nodes, at
least without proper operations in place. But wouldn't that also solve
it's current outages too?

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

vd — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:00:01 -0000

how would you scale offline message storage?
GNBD (Global Network Block Device) and RHEL GFS (Global File System).

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

Spike411 — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:37:45 -0000

Really, why do you think that “offline message storage“ is any scalability issue or problem? (Why is it not a problem with current Twitter?)

I'd also suggest reading PubSub (Publish Subscribe) and PEP (Personal Eventing via PubSub) XEPs.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

cpinto — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:28:45 -0000

ok, just clearing up that particular question: how would you scale offline message storage? :-)