• DHTwitter: A Vision of a Distributed Twitter

    First of all, I have to say that this post is about an idea, not code. Now that this is said, here is the idea. As I said in a previous post, Twitter is facing a problem that could lead to its extinction. More and more people use third-party clients to access Twitter, thus decentralizing [...]

  • Why Twitter Inc Will Fail

    The latest rumor on the Twittersphere is about a possible buyout of Twitter by Apple for $700 million in cash. That is a lot of hype. Especially when we consider that even the owners of Twitter value the company to “only” $250 million. But can this holds? Following my article on Web 2.0, here is [...]

  • Third Overall at Yahoo! HACK U

    Two weeks ago, strange posters with the title “Hey Haxor” and showing a fist in ASCII art started to appear all around the University of Waterloo engineering buildings. There was absolutely no other useful informations on them except a url: http://hacku.impact.org. When I got back home, I went on the website to figure out what [...]