Tweetbook: Publishing Your Tweets Into A Book

James Briddle has published his 4100 tweets (posts on Twitter) in a 270 page book, "My Life in Tweets." The book covers his tweets from February 2007 to 2009. He has also provided the script he used to download all his tweets from Twitter.

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In case you are wondering what was his motivation?

“When Twitter is inevitably replaced by something else, I don’t want to lose all those incidentals, the casual asides, the remarks and responses. That’s all really. This seems like a nice way to do it, and I’ll probably do it again in a couple of years time.”

I think it's a very neat idea, even though I doubt I have the patience to read someone's 4100 tweets in a book. However, I think many people will follow this and soon we'll start seeing tweet stands which will just carry books and magazines containing tweets :)

Cloud Computing and Community One East

Community One East is happening this week and I for sure will be attending. The event is taking place at Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, NY. I am especially looking forward to the announcements tomorrow which sound very interesting :). Unfortunately, I can't go into details about what Sun Microsystems is announcing.

The first day of Community One is a free event featuring. The second day of the event is focused on Deep Dives with two half-day sessions on MySQL and two full-day sessions on Java and Web development. I will be attending the session, "Using Java EE and SOA to Architect and Design Robust Enterprise Applications."

Following the conference, I will be a panelist at a Cloud Computing Panel, "How Cloud Computing Affects Small Business," at Microsoft office in NY.

After the cloud computing panel, I must rush home to attend a conference call. It's going to be a long but exciting day!

It will be great to catch up with old and new friends at the event. I will also be Twitter-ing the event on my Twitter account.

Facebook: Makes moves to be more like FriendFeed and Twitter

Today, Facebook is holding a press conference about features expected to come in two weeks.

Here’s the latest insight I have been able to get.

• via Robert Scoble: Mark Zuckerberg just announced that businesses and brands will have full access to the social graph. (Still looking for details as to what the "full access to the social graph" means.)
• Facebook’s new home page is implementing more and more FriendFeed functionality. It seems the focus on FB’s side is more on aggregation now.
• They are moving to a real-time friend feed rather than a 10-15 minute delay
• Zuckerberg mentioned their move is in Twitter’s direction (via Chris)
  
• Nick O'Neill's take on Facebook changes.
  
• Mashable's take on Facebook's new home page.
• Venture Beat also is live blogging the Facebook event.
  

Facebook’s new home page (via Scoble):


New Facebook filtering on home page:


I am dying to know what the “full access to the social graph” means.

Fail Whale Being Replaced?

Just noticed that Twitter wasn't showing Fail Whale anymore. Instead I got a fail whale, fail bird, fail cloud and fail something:

Summize Acquired by Twitter

Twitter has acquired Summize, a search engine for tweets and conversations. Summize.com is already resolving to search.twitter.com.

I was recently introduced to Summize by Dan White of CafeMom and have since loved the service.

“The deal started with a conversation with Fred Wilson about how conversational search can evolve into navigation, about how important navigation becomes for UGC as you go mainstream — it concluded with the deal that was announced this morning. Betaworks is now a twitter shareholder, and excited to be one.”John Borthwick, partner at Betaworks

Congratulations to Summize, Twitter and Betaworks teams on making a perfect acquisition. Also congrats to John Borthwick who is a partner at BetaWorks.

Twitter's Meager Architecture?

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch demands answers to some tough questions from Twitter. He potentially exposes Twitter's architecture implying that Twitter may be running on a grand total of three MySQL machines.

“Do you really have a grand total of three physical database machines that are POWERING ALL OF TWITTER?”
For those out of the loop, Twitter has lately been experiencing some serious disruptions in service.