As I mentioned in the interview with @enked on his website Chidimar.com, I had serious problems with MySQL database optimization on the Foller.me project. The current public stable version (beta-1) is using the MyISAM engine and it’s not holding much data – profiles, locations, geo points for the followers geography. In the new version (currently dev-1 and hopefully beta-2 in a few...
Have You Tried the Amazon Web Services?
Amazon EC2, EBS, S3.. I’ve been looking for the perfect web hosting for over two years now. Is this it? A few months ago I really liked MediaTemple cause they offered pretty good US hosting starting from $20/mo, which was quite good for the Foller.me project, so at the starting point I chose them. Their service is cool, definitely worth the money, but. A few weeks have passed, along with...
Foller.me Gets Featured on Startups Live TV!
StartupsLive.tv is definitely one of the best shows I’ve seen around these days and guess what! I got there! Startups Live is the non-biased platform for any startup to get live exposure, a captive audience, and valuable feedback from potential business partners, customers, members, and investors. I sent a request to Startups Live asking them to feature the Foller.me Twitter service...
Foller.me: An Insight on Followers Geography
Hello everyone. Very busy week here and more good news! I have been asked about the future of Foller.me by many friends from Twitter and e-mail and IM, so I thought I’d share my thoughts here in public. Foller.me is going quite good although there are a couple of bugs and issues that haven’t been solved yet, but we’re working on it very hard. The future? Well, that’s...
Foller.me has Launched!
I’m glad to announce that Foller.me has launched today!! Hurray! We’ve already got some cool articles, shoutouts and tweets about the start, and more to (hopefully) come this night. Actually, some of them were written yesterday – timezones issue I guess. Anyway, we’ve reached our first goal yesterday night – 1000 unique profile views and most of our first few fans...
Foller.me is Ready to Launch. We're going LIVE!
Good news everyone! We’re totally ready to launch! Everything is going as planned right now and we’re having a very busy weekend, but the launch date was announced and there’s nothing we can do to stop ;) Might I start with a little press release? You can post this wherever you want, blogs, forums, chats, … newspapers, TV, radio ;) but please, schedule that for Monday (1st...
New Twitter Startup! Beta Testers Wanted!
Hello everyone. You might be wondering why I haven’t updated my WordPress plugins for the last two weeks. I was very busy with this new Twitter service I got in mind and I’m proud to announce that a semi-public beta is already up and running. You might want to read the blog before you go test: blog.foller.me. The beta’s located here: beta.foller.me. I’m really looking...