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Yesterday I had a visit by a childhood friend, during the visit I wanted to give him an idea of why Flash based web chat services can be inefficient for large number of simultaneous users while chatting. Before I could get into my example, the Userplane chat room I entered sent the following message: It says "Warning! Your PC is at risk of virus and malware attack. Your system requires immediate check! System security will perform a quick and free scan of your PC for viruses and malicious programs." followed by an ok button as shown. Well , my years using computers and warning people of the dangers of trojan horse like messages from web pages prompting users to run scans, quickly told me this was a false message provided by some script embedded into the Userplane room I was in, and triggered by my attempt to send a message into the room. This is really bad news for Userplane, as it means the public rooms on its service have been compromised by malicious code creators and is...

In this post , I made the case that many internet companies are busy solving problems that aren't in need of solution. I wanted to differentiate the conclusion of that article from the ideas I've expressed else where that the optimal solution for a given problem over the long term involves making sure it solves the problem landscape with the largest scope possible. Over time these solutions will lead to reduced costs for the implementer in the form of maintenance and scalability issues which tend to kill projects over time as complexity (in the form of constant dam plugging and retrofitting for problems that weren't originally in the solution scope) builds to unmanageable levels. This is a different focus from the ideas mentioned in the 'good enough' post, which were focused not on the actual solution, which in many cases in these many online business models are indeed ingenious, it is in the selection of those particular problems. In this case, the issue is that t...