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June 21, 2009
10:03
Interview of @eschnou at Google I/O

As you know, I went to San Francisco for a week in May, on invitation by Google to demo Storytlr at I/O. Here is a short interview they did during the conference. This way, you can now put a face on Storytlr (the other face, the one of Alard, is missing as he wasn't able to join me at I/O).

Comment by Pierre-Olivier Carles on 22 Jun 09 at 9:43 CEST
Interesting points of view... specially the part when you explain that scalability is not that easy to plan :-)
Comment by blog on 25 Jun 09 at 20:36 CEST
Hi PO, thanks for stopping by :-) Indeed, scalability is tough but our biggest mistake is not to have planned for internationalization from the start. Just adding a small library and following a few convention would have made all the difference. Today, if we want to translate, we have a huge refactoring task ahead of us. Not fun :-(
Comment by pierreoliviercarles on 26 Jun 09 at 4:50 CEST
My pleasure... You know I love Storytlr :-)

Do you really need to translate now ? Why not keeping on going improving the service and bringing it to a even higher value for the user... and then consider internationalization later ?!? It would have been better to think about it at the very beginning... but now, as it's too late, will it make a big difference ?

PS : And by the way, may be you could fix this tiny bug-feature-breakingballs thing ? :-)
http://skitch.com/pcarles/biubu/storytlr-blog-interview-of-eschnou-at-google-i-o
Comment by eschnou on 26 Jun 09 at 5:01 CEST
Ho no we don't and we are not working on it. However, if I had panned things right in the begining, today I could just ask my mother to translate the assets and it would be done.

PHP for example has excellent internationalization frameworks, but you must use them from the start.

I think that many US based projects simply don't do this. This is one reason why going international is a pain for them. Refactoring would be too costly.

PS: Thx for the bug, had actually never seen or heard complains on this. Will fix asap.
June 25, 2009
22:28
Hectic two days: service unavailable and missing twitter updates

Dear all,

 

As some of you have noticed and expressed on twitter, our service has encountered some issues over the last two days. Here is a quick update on the status and the actions we are taking to solve this.

 

Service unavailable: This was caused to a DNS issue at our provider, which has now been fixed. Slightly more details on this issue here.

 

Missing/slow twitter updates: This is a more serious issue for us. Gnip, our provider for all the realtime updates, had to stop distributing the twitter firehose on June 19th, as explained here. This means that we don't receive realtime updates anymore and that we had to revert to polling. However, due to throttling constraints imposed by Twitter, the updates are slow (can be up to 6 hours for your tweets to appear). We are actively working with Twitter to find a solution and get early access to their new stream API.

 

Besides that, everything is running smooth. We have slowed down on new developments in the last weeks, mainly due to an increase in sunshine and BBQs :-) Yet, don't worry, we are still around and strongly commited to keep on evolving the platform. It is just too much fun too stop :-)

 

As always, thanks a lot for your support, and don't hesitate to send us your feedback !

 

Cheers,

 

-Laurent

Comment by caldaean on 2 Jul 09 at 17:54 CEST
My site over at caldaean.crookedmoon.org havn't gotten any tweets since 26/6. Issue still not resolved, or am I doing something wrong?
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Comment by leena on 27 Jul 11 at 16:58 CEST
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June 26, 2009
21:38
Like storytlr ? Then vote for us at the Techcrunch Europas award.

Hi everyone,

 

We've just learned that Storytlr was nominated in the 'best boostrapped startup' category for the Techcrunch Europas award. The selection of the five finalists is based on public votes. So... if you like what we do, and want to support us... just vote !

 

http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/the-europas-best-bootstrapped-startup-less-than-3-years-old/

 

Thanks a lot for your support !

 

Laurent & Alard

22:22