Simon Willison’s Weblog

Go Get Yer Shiny New Yahoo Profile... And Make Some Connections! I’m surprised to see Yahoo! going with mutual friendships as the core of their new social platform—I’ve personally found social sites which support a one-way “follow” relationship far more useful.

# 16th October 2008, 7:05 pm / connections, follow, friends, social, techcrunch, yahoo

Enough Already with the Connections! Comet doesn’t mean making long-lived HTTP connections (which most browsers do anyway thanks to HTTP keep-alive), it means making long-held HTTP requests. I’m guilty of spreading this misinformation in the past.

# 30th June 2008, 9:27 am / comet, connections, correction, http, keepalive, requests