CNET
Ryan
Lucas
CTEC101
Julio Appling
Hello everyone,
For this weeks blog post I found an article written by a
freelance reporter for cnet. Dara Kerr wrote her article on twitter's drive to
increase the speed, and overall flexibility of their page. Twitter has claimed
that they have significantly increased load time, and overall functionality of
their site. According to Dan Webb this was accomplished by "
taking back control of our front-end performance by moving the rendering to the
server," Webb went on to state that "This has allowed us to drop our
initial page load times to 1/5th of what they were previously and reduce
differences in performance across browsers."
I found this article to be rather fascinating, as it
shows how even social media giants are trying to keep pace with an ever
changing technolgically driven World. It is almost as if all technology based
corporations are striving to be the first of their kind to reach heights that
no one before has achieved, and I for one believe that most, if not all of the
advancements in Society come about by way of possible financial gain. This is
all just a thought, or maybe I'm just
subscribing to a technology based conspiracy, or perhaps I'm reading into the
article too much.
The way that I
related this article to my experiences with social media outlets and other technology
based companies was by loading my facebook page, or my e-mail, and always
getting notices that there is something new, and faster which I must either
subscribe to, or download in order for my experience to be immensely enjoyable.
Nothing, absolutely nothing makes me angrier than logging into my e-mail, and
having to contend with numerous pop-ups that won't let me immediately view my
inbox.
With twitter's faster, less restrictive site comes pain
for the individual whom just wanted to log into their account. Once this individual
has logged into their account they may, or may not need to download a newer
version of JavaScript in order to stay up to date with the social media giant.
This is the only way that subscribers will
enjoy all of the sites advancements. I wish sometimes that affluent
individuals in Society would speak up to large corporations and say that we
don't always need the latest and greatest technological advancement, but that
we do need a break from the bombardment of
technological based advancements.
Regards,
Ryan Lucas
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