I recognize that this author's proactive use of sex-neutral (or more like sex-diverse?) pronouns comes from a good place. But intermixing he's with she's, him's and her's the way he is is sometimes just confusing.
When listening to Sergey talk about Google Buzz ten minutes into this video he brings up the value of using buzz to ask questions to his contacts with the recommendation system directing the question to who best can answer it.
Pagerank doesnt have anything to do with twitter and facebook.
Its a great idea, and its probably one of the major factors that made google a success, but today it is not a very important factor in google being a bigger company than fb and twitter.
Perhaps I poorly worded by saying "ten minutes in", I meant starting from 10 minute and 10 second mark Sergey brings up how he's been using the service internally.
Edit:But going back to your point, I not sure Pagerank is relevant to twitter/facebook, and I don't think Sergey was saying that it was. But I do think their could be search problem emerging in social networks when people start having several hundred friends and you want to find relevant conversations to your interests going on within your network.
I think sometimes it is. But, I don't think this makes sense as an iPhone app given its current capabilities. A mobile-optimized website makes a lot more sense, especially since hosting companies usually have web-based control panels anyway.
I think it is more of a marketing stunt. There are lots of iPhone apps that are just as well (or better) implemented as normal mobile-optimized web apps. But, it is hard to get a lot of free publiclity by showing off yet another webapp. Packaging your web app as an iPhone app gives you some potential instant publicity, and an effective way to charge for it.
It wasn't a marketing stunt. I made it because I wanted it, and Slicehost offered a nice API. It also gave me a great excuse to learn how to write iPhone apps :)
The SliceManager is great as a mobile web app, but I like that I don't have to enter my username and password to use my account, and I get a native iPhone experience (which isn't really possible in the browser, even with things like IUI).
"Stunt" was a poor choice of words. I simply meant that there is a lot of marketing value in creating an "iPhone App" vs a normal web app, even if the functionality is the same. If you created a web app version, nobody would be interested in it (since SliceHost has their own), even if the web app had the same functionality.
Do you know why the iPhone web browser doesn't (can't?) save your username/password when you use the SliceManager mobile web app? Is a problem with the SliceManager or with the iPhone browser or both? Password saving is a pretty basic feature.
Yeah, there's certainly a lot of buzz around iPhone apps these days...probably more than is warranted in many cases.
As for saving password, I think Mobile Safari doesn't add passwords to the keychain (I may be wrong). Also, I've noticed that switching networks (wifi to 3G, or 3G in one area to a different 3G tower) tends to mess up any sessions I have in web apps. But I haven't really looked into it enough to figure it out.
Well, it's not made by slicehost at all, just a customer who wanted it. They are very appreciative for it and even use it themselves (I'll imagine not for any internal infrastructure stuff.). On their podcast they thanked the guy profoundly.
I could think of several instances where I'd like to change DNS records on the fly. Maybe the CDN is down, and I want to point that subdomain back to the origin server? Or one of the servers in my round robin pool is dead, and I want it out of the rotation.
