2 CMS or not.
Interesting had this exact conversation, down to the named software choices yday via Brainnovate : "If you really want to do something unique and revolutionary, relying on a CMS will kill you dead. Imagine if the guys who built Twitter started out with a CMS platform and went from there. You think Twitter has problems now :P There are a lot of people “gunning” to be the next Facebook, Myspace, etc. They are not using a CMS either."
Digital Hobbit also posts on the twitter scalability topic du jour : "People just don’t seem to realize that Twitter is a complex messaging application and that the front-end is only a relatively small aspect of it... One of the real difficulties in scaling Twitter lies in the fact that all Twitter hits are completely personalized and need to return fresh data, making it difficult to fully leverage caching."
Similarly Scoble's posting about whether YouTube is keeping up with the live mobile video scene : "They are very aware they are getting outrun by streaming services like Ustream, Stickam, Justin.tv. They are more worried about cell phone videos like Qik, Flixwagon, Bambuser, and Kyte.tv. They tell me they see tons of people at concerts using their cell phones to record video and know that’s a big market that they’ll need to serve. Funny enough, several of them mentioned Seesmic and Seesmic’s new video comments."
Digital Hobbit also posts on the twitter scalability topic du jour : "People just don’t seem to realize that Twitter is a complex messaging application and that the front-end is only a relatively small aspect of it... One of the real difficulties in scaling Twitter lies in the fact that all Twitter hits are completely personalized and need to return fresh data, making it difficult to fully leverage caching."
Similarly Scoble's posting about whether YouTube is keeping up with the live mobile video scene : "They are very aware they are getting outrun by streaming services like Ustream, Stickam, Justin.tv. They are more worried about cell phone videos like Qik, Flixwagon, Bambuser, and Kyte.tv. They tell me they see tons of people at concerts using their cell phones to record video and know that’s a big market that they’ll need to serve. Funny enough, several of them mentioned Seesmic and Seesmic’s new video comments."
posted by redbarren at 4:14 PM
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the corollary of course to the whole CMS argument is this:
if you're not trying to innovate, why the hell would you drop $mega-K bux on a custom CMS when you can hit 90% ++ of your required function points using an existing CMS/blog engine? You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake...
most innovation in this country seems to involve outsourcing your thinking to a bunch of "creatives" who toss off a nasty-slow loading, accessibility-wha? Flash UI on top of... a bespoke CMS. Cha-ching.
The ones that seem to truly geddit spend their time trying to educate "web 0.0" level VCs in Oz, or bail out for the valley... toot toot, all aboard the clue train...
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