Dave’s been awfully coy about Switch-a-Bit so far. At present I’m really unsure what this is going to be, but I’m having a hard time caring. What scares me is that someone actually think’s Dave’s a good enough programmer to drive a start up. Wow.
It’s also designed to scale to work for hundreds of thousands of users, Murphy-willing.
Sure thing, Dave. I wonder why he couldn’t make FlickrFan scale well for ONE user but he can build a platform which supposedly will scale well for “hundreds of thousands”.
It seems pretty clear to me that John Borthwick isn’t letting Dave Winer anywhere near the coding of Switchabit or Twittergram. His company Betaworks has its own coders, and they’ve been working in Java and PHP. The new Twittergram is hosted on Switchabit’s servers.
Winer does a good job of making it sound like he’s coding, though. He’s become a potemkin programmer.