Twitter suddenly turned off APIs for 3rd party apps to access its stream. They went down a couple of days ago. Word from a Twitter engineer was that it was intentional. I have heard nothing today about the situation. Meanwhile, clicks to my other blog have declined over the past four months until this month down to almost nothing this month. I’ve noticed the feed has also become progressively crappy, a lot of politics and I follow zero politics.
I’ve been on Twitter since March of 2008. Just shy of 15 years. It was so exciting in the beginning. A new way to keep in touch with colleagues and the industry. I’ve used it less over the past year. They keep following the Facebook theories of algorithms—I don’t really wish to see updates from my friends, family, and colleagues.
While writing this, I see an update to the home stream—For You and Following. These are much improved over the past few months. We’ll see if they can rescue the product from the dumpster fire.
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If you are curious about creativity, the Billy Joel on SiriusXM, channel 14 right now is the answer for your wish for a class on creativity. It features brief interview comments about how he came up with his songs. Includes music, lyrics, ideas. It’s a great school for creativity.
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New Podcast 244 Industrial Metaverse—Reality or Dream Yes, I'm back after a long hiatus due to some projects that soaked up my time. Metaverse remains the hot topic in industrial technology discussion circles. Are we getting closer to reality than what I spoke of in episode 241? There are some interesting new concepts from both Rockwell Automation and GridRaster plus others.
Anurag Maunder, CEO and founder, and Subbu Kuchibhotla, VP Growth and Development, of a new company in the video streaming market called Sensable.
They told me this is the first vision platform built for industrial engineering. Almost all current vision and video applications involve narrowly focusing on a part or a piece of a machine. The idea of the Sensable platform is to broaden the focus of the camera, or combine multiple camera, such that an entire operation or segment of the plant can be viewed, captured, and analyzed.
Gary