Twitter cut Meerkat off from its social graph right as Periscope launched, and after a week of using both apps I've got some opinions. Also: Google Maps turned into Pac-Man and I lost an afternoon to it.
Twitter quietly cut Meerkat off from its follow graph last week, days after buying Periscope, and having actually used the app at SXSW this feels like a pretty petty move.
Periscope landed this week right as Twitter cut Meerkat off at the knees, and after a weekend of watching strangers livestream nothing in particular I've got some specific complaints and one pigeon-related anecdote.
GitHub's been getting hammered by a massive DDoS attack since March 26th, and the weirdest part isn't the outage, it's how the traffic is apparently getting there.
GitHub's had a rough few days under what looks like its biggest DDoS ever, and I only found out because a routine deploy hung for twenty minutes.
Twitter bought Periscope for a reported $100 million and then cut off Meerkat's access to the follow graph right as it was blowing up at SXSW — a petty, familiar move.
Twitter quietly bought Periscope, then cut Meerkat off from the social graph days after SXSW made it the app of the moment. A weekend spent using it anyway.
Meerkat blew up at SXSW, then Twitter cut off the API access it depends on days after buying Periscope. A rundown of the drama, plus why the app itself is kind of a mess.
Meerkat blew up at SXSW, then Twitter cut off its social graph access and quietly bought Periscope. A week later, some thoughts on the whole mess (and my draining battery).
I stayed up for yesterday's solar eclipse livestream and got way more interested in how European grid operators kept the lights on than in the eclipse itself.
Twitter cut Meerkat off from its social graph days after buying rival Periscope, and the SXSW darling app suddenly looked a lot more fragile.
The new 12-inch MacBook shipped this week with exactly one port, and the internet cant decide if thats brave or insane. Some thoughts on dongles, the new keyboard, and the HBO Now announcement everyone's ignoring.
