Cem Aykan's Corner

Hi,

Check out my new site: http://www.mehtrix.com/ 

It still has a bunch of features that are missing, but I am adding them
as time permits...

Currently I have the facebook crap meter running :), the xbox live graphs
will be added shortly.

What is it? 

Mehtrix is derived from "metrics".

"Metrics are a system of parameters or ways of quantitative and
periodic assessment of a process that is to be measured, along
with the procedures to carry out such measurement and the procedures
for the interpretation of the assessment in the light of previous or
comparable assessments. Metrics are usually specialized by the
subject area, in which case they are valid only within a certain domain
and cannot be directly benchmarked or interpreted outside it."

The idea is to get,capture and analyze metrics of stuff that is
relevant to my interest at any given time, and help draw the bigger
picture for people with similar interests.

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I was at Facebook Developer Garage event at MIT last night, just to check out what
was new, at what to expect in the roadmap.

As you know Facebook had recently launced "The Platfrom" , which
is a open developer framework for the community for developers to
make apps internal, extrernal around facebook.

Although this is a great idea in essence, we all know what happened
in the aftermath of the launch:

    - Flying zombies apps, cheap tequila shot apps, and etc..
    - Tons and tons of notifications.
    - People sending stuff, but to be able to see you have to add the app.

Eventually peoples profiles started to look like a kindergarden play room with
many colorfull toys, squeky stuff.

This was great, but the problem is we do not go to kindergarden anymore! :)

Wasn't there any usefull tools? Yes, but they have been over shadowed with
the junk.

One of the slides in the presentation mentioned that, there
where 7000+ apps today, and 100+ apps added daily, how many of
these could be uniq, and usefull?

How will Facebook make sure that there system does not end up
like the Myspace junk yard?

These where the questions I was able to ask Sandra Liu Huang, who was
representing facebook.

She told me that this is in the top list of the items, concerns they have
and they want to be able to make sure the uniqiness and quality
of the apps is at a certain level, but without policing each and every app.

But HOW?

Time shall show if this is possible :)
 

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Hi,

Thanks to  Todd I have learned that it looks like XBOX live status page will no longer be available.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/lawsuit-forces-microsoft-to-stay-mum-about-xbox-live-status/

First of all, I think 3 guys in Texas apparently do not have anything else to do then to
clog the legal system with a useless law suit, but thats a total diffrent story. (!)

This means that the TODAY.PNG that was the daily graph of up/down time will no
longer be relevant, I suggest not using it until the status page is updated
in the future.

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Meet Kofte:

 
He is a male 8 month old tuxedo cat. He allows us to live with him, and
we are very gratefull for that, what would we do living on the streets eating
trash.

This video shows is EXACTLY what he does:

Some of the (I guess common for kittens) things Kofte likes to do
between 4am -> 8am in order:

1- Come up really close to owners face and smell, lick nose.
2- If owner does not wake up, try catching toes from on top of blanket.
3- If still owner snoring, get under blanket and attack feet.
4- If owner pushes of bed, repeats step #3 couple more times.
5- If still no progress, go to living room, and run as fast as you can
    and jump on the bed, and pounce on owners head.
6- If kicked out of bedroom, cry, miaw, scratch door until allowed back in.

Meet KittenTerminatior 2000(actual name Roboquad):

This is the recipe for a good old nice sleep till 8am:
1- If kitten is acting kuku, put kitten outside the bedroom.
2- Turn on KittenTerminatior, and set it to Guard mode.
3- Put robot outside, right infront of the bedroom door(where usually the scratching
and crying happens)

As little devil approaches the door to cry, and scratch, the bot will
notice the cat, and move like suprised, and make sounds, this is more
then enough to have the cat go inside to another room safe away from the
scary moving object :)

When you wake up in the morning, you will see the cat looking out the window,
lounging on the couch, or just napping away while you had just enjoyed a normal
morning.

So, I guess WowWee finally did do something usefull for humanity!

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Seems like things are getting back to normal after all.

01/10/2008:

01/11/2008:

01/12/2008:

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Here is the last 3 days:

01/07/2008:



01/08/2008:



01/09/2008:

This can be mean and/or two things:

1- It is getting a bit better.
2- Or, because people had so many issues, they are not signin lately as they used to.


Either case, I had no issues in the last couple days my self, so I can't complain to much right now, finger crossed ofcourse.

It would be interesting to see how this weekend pulls off...

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Last night(1/6/2008) xbox live had more hickups: 

http://www.acddv.com/xlive/2008-01-06.PNG:

(The image looks squished because of the blog format) 

Also, I did get some comments on having the date, time included in graph
images, which I will be working on.

But for accessing the current day, times(10 minute latency) graph you
can always reach if from here:

http://www.acddv.com/xlive/today.PNG 

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XBOX live had a horrible night again yesterday until 00:30 early this morning.

Since I started to capture daily statistics(every 10 minutes) I have seen this pattern of
XBOX live not being able to handle the load usually East Coast time night hours(US).
I guess thats when a big population of people in the East Coast decides to go "Live"
and gets dissapointed(Just like me last night!)

Check these out,

01/04/2008:



01/05/2008:

 
You can aslo check current days graph that gets update every 10 minutes:
http://www.acddv.com/xlive/today.PNG

These statistics are avaialable publicly, check this thread on how you can use them:
http://acddv.com/blog/2008/01/is_xboxlive_really_that_live.html

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Like everyone else who has xbox-live and had consistent issues in the last several weeks, especially with matchmaking, and just login in, I am also sick of it.

I guess people are taking it to the next level, with law suits and stuff(which I think is a bit extreme)

But, I just wanted to capture how "live" it is really.

So what I decided to do was use xbox live/support page status update, have a automated script that will check every 10 minutes, for each day and generate graphs daily.

 Blue tickers are when everything "up and running", while red tickers are for any sort
of issues.

These graphs are really handy on giving the idea of the health, and the big picture
of how "live" xbox is.

 I also made these statistical images available to the public. Feel free to use them, just
mention that you got them from me.

For current day's image(which gets update eveyr 10 minutes) you just need to point to:
http://www.acddv.com/xlive/today.PNG 

(so you can point to TODAY, and it will always get updated) 

TODAY:

 

For previous dates, you can point to for example:
http://www.acddv.com/xlive/2008-01-04.PNG

Once this thing runs for a month, I will also generate monthly statistics. 

Feel free to drop in any suggestions.

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