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So, it will almost be Tweekly.fm’s first birthday soon (if I remember correctly Jan 7). The past few weeks has been hectic, juggling through servers, coding ducktape to keep it together, seeing it fall apart (AGAIN), and so forth.

Due to monetary and time constraints, I had to get up a watered-down version of Tweekly.fm: It only works manually. You enter your data and click send. As easy as that.

When I come back in January, things will hopefully start working again as it should (tweeting automatically). While last.fm did not want to buy Tweekly.fm, there is something else in the pipeline that will get Tweekly.fm back to its (automatic tweeting) glory it had a month ago. Hopefully it will happen sooner than later.

Sorry for the inconvenience guys! Thanks for the year as well!

And remember, keep listening.

So. Tweekly.fm is failing. It is growing too fast for a newbie solo developer like me.

I started it in the beginning of the year with next to no development experience. I still don’t have any legit development experience apart from hacking together MySQL and PHP with ducktape. This past few weeks has been an insanely hectic ride for Tweekly.fm!

First, I moved away from my current shared hosting to Mediatemple’s (dv) which completely failed on me. It hit the memory cap from all the traffic that was coming in. This week, I moved to Rackspace Cloud Sites. So far, I’m really impressed with the service. It could keep up with traffic really well, until I realised it had a hard cap on its .php scripts of 15min, which meant instant fail for my completely inefficient script.

I’m at a loss with what to do now. I realise the way I’m doing it now, simple just won’t work with the resources I have. I’m currently busy with a redesign, but I can’t keep the current Tweekly.fm up and running efficiently.

Considering that I am still a full-time student, I can’t spend all my time developing it.

So from next week unfortunately, Tweekly.fm will not be automated anymore. It will only work manually. You enter your data, you tweet. I will work to the best of my ability behind the scene to get it back to automated form when it is possible.

There is also another way to keep Tweekly.fm going… Get last.fm to buy Tweekly.fm. This way, the automation can occur with real ease on super slick servers and better programmers making it great.

If you would like that, I would appreciate an RT.

Apologies to those who like their Tweekly.fm to be automated.

Square “launched” today. It is an interesting new product that allows anyone to easily accept payments from cards in the offline world. This makes it easier for the little guy to accept payments via a credit card at places like a flea market for example.

The idea itself is brilliant, probably garnering many facepalms of “why didn’t I think of that?”. What intrigues me most is that this basically means, bar a few examples, that carrying money around has once again become even more pointless.

With the advent of the internet, money has been disappearing into digital numbers, something that’s never in your “hands” anymore. You still have to carry cash around for “petty” payments, but with the advent of Square I see it lessening even more. It is disturbing actually to think that the essential thing that determines my well-being is actually so frivolous. I can’t physically account for my well-being anymore. It is disappearing.

I say bring on a new crowdsourced economy without money driven by our desire to innately collaborate  through the reduced opportunity to communicate through the internet to share what we love to do.