Still, why do those sites get so complacent? Seems to be the same with Twitter - maybe I am the only one using it via web, but they don't even have a tinyurl button or a search function for one's followers. What are they doing with their time?
I get the impression from a lot of the coverage lately that they've been working on an actual plan to make money. I'm speculating, but this could involve developers working on features or even an alternate platform conducive to that effort that wouldn't show up in the currently public-facing free system.
I saw something similar with Heroku. In fact, in the RubyConf talk, Adam Wiggins pretty much stated that they were asked by their investors to switch gears to the making money part of things. Thus, the Heroku service stayed more or less the same (and good, I might add) for a period of time up until this recent announcement that other stuff had been happening behind the scenes.
They've made pretty great improvements to the availablity and reliability. It still goes down, but not nearly as often as it did. That despite virtually doubling their traffic in the last 6 months. So my guess is they have just about everyone focusing on optimizing and scaling.
I agree though, lots more they could do including a solid oauth implementation for the api...perpetually coming soon...
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Still, why do those sites get so complacent? Seems to be the same with Twitter - maybe I am the only one using it via web, but they don't even have a tinyurl button or a search function for one's followers. What are they doing with their time?
I get the impression from a lot of the coverage lately that they've been working on an actual plan to make money. I'm speculating, but this could involve developers working on features or even an alternate platform conducive to that effort that wouldn't show up in the currently public-facing free system.
I saw something similar with Heroku. In fact, in the RubyConf talk, Adam Wiggins pretty much stated that they were asked by their investors to switch gears to the making money part of things. Thus, the Heroku service stayed more or less the same (and good, I might add) for a period of time up until this recent announcement that other stuff had been happening behind the scenes.
I've been obsessing over this question ever since they closed out 20m in funding.
They've made pretty great improvements to the availablity and reliability. It still goes down, but not nearly as often as it did. That despite virtually doubling their traffic in the last 6 months. So my guess is they have just about everyone focusing on optimizing and scaling.
I agree though, lots more they could do including a solid oauth implementation for the api...perpetually coming soon...