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Web Two Point No?

Om Malik writes that "The Web 2.0 Hit By Outages", saying:

"Over past 48 hours, there have been reports of Web 2.0 outages. Six Apart, one of the biggest blog service provider is experiencing serious downtime, which has left many a few influential bloggers in a tears of rage. (maybe that's why it hasn't made it to Mememorandum and Tailrank as yet?)" (from Om Malik's Blog)

Om connects this news, correctly, to scalability. Scalability is very very hard, and any site as popular as TypePad is certainly extraordinarily hard to architect and run reliably, Web 2.0 or no. In fact, I don't understand the association with Web 2.0 ("whatever that is."). These are just large web sites with huge loads and huge numbers of users. In fact I agree more with Adam Green's sentiment: "Web 1.1 is more like it", where he says:

"I challenge anyone who understands how all this new stuff, like APIs and Ajax, actually works to look me in the eye and honestly say this isn't just Web 1.1. Come on." (from Darwinian web, read all of it.)

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Can I do this?

I'd like to create a web page that list all web pages that don't link to themselves. Technorati Tags: odd

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Funny

Good for a 1 minute chuckle:

"In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature." (from The Credit Card Prank)

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Robin Good has interesting predictions

Robin Good has some interesting predictions and prognostications.

"If you stop looking for a second at the hundreds of interesting new tools and events happening online, what are the key trends you see? Where among the new emerging online media, should you be looking next when trying to understand where to invest your future energies and money?" (from New Media Predictions 2006: What Will The Web Future Bring?)

Worth reading.

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Using AJAX to do word processing on the web

You may not have heard of this, but we are now starting to see quite decent word processing applications implemented directly in the browser, using a technique that has become known as "AJAX" - Asyncrhonous Javascript And XML. As usual there is debate about what AJAX really means, who invented it (Microsoft claims that they had it like 5 years ago - which everyone scoffs at.) Here's a good article about Ajax and how it's being used to build word processing applications that run directly in the browser:

"None of these methods, however, are as simple to set up as a standard Web browser, which can quickly access a file from anywhere in the world. That's the promise that AJAX brings to the party." (from AJAX: the way word processing will be)

One very impressive example cited in the article is Writely. It's (of course) free and easy to try. It really seems to work. Of course when it comes to word processing, features matter, but reliability matters a lot too. Last thing I want is to lose the 10 page term paper and not be able to retrieve it. Check it out.

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Long tail UI Widget

Picture 8-2 This is kind of cool. I am playing around with the Last.FM music service. Among the many things it does, is that It 'watches' everything you play with iTunes to figure out your music tastes. And then with that, Last.FM recommends music that you might like. What caught my eye is the first use of the famous 'long tail' graph as a User Interface element. You can drag the vertical bar right and left to affect whether the recommended music is more in the popular or obscure range of possibilities. Cute! Technorati Tags: cool, longtail

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Web 2.0, I knew ye well. Here comes Web 2.5

Check out Liam Breck's new blog.

"Next, the religion of The Network Is The Computer has indoctrinated the congregation to ignore an obvious issue with connectivity: We depend on PCs only because electricity is ubiquitous and reliable. If the power is out, you've usually got acts of god in progress, and little divine inspiration for work." (from Web 2.5: Always-on-you Web 2.0 Tools)

Welcome, Liam! Technorati Tags: web2.0