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WIBNI Trackback 2.0.... [Sam Ruby] Sam adds details about Trackback used in LazyWeb, and while at it LazyWebs Trackback itself: fun recursion :-)
PS: I wonder if the LazyWeb noun will take off as a verb. I love the english language for this ability.
9:08:36 PM Google It! 
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LazyWeb and RSS: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow Too? by Clay Shirky
About LazyWeb, the current tendency in weblogs where one person describes a feature he wishes to be implemented, and another one, reading the description, implements it.
In order to structure this practice around a tool, Ben Hammersley has designed a version of a LazyWeb RSS feed. You post your LazyWeb descriptions to your blog, with a trackback url to Ben's site. Then Ben aggregates them through the trackback in an RSS feed that people can then subscribe to.
Simple and elegant design.
The part that interested me the most is about the limitation of portals to act as tools for aggregation, compared to RSS feeds:
However, nearly a decade of experimentation with single-purpose portals shows that most of them fail. As an alternative to making a LazyWeb portal, creating an RSS feed of LazyWeb descriptions has several potential advantages
There's a paradigm shift happening in collaborative software land these days thanks to blogs and all development activity around them, where centralized portals will be replaced by RSS feeds and decentralized tools.
I'm curious to see how a portal software product such as the one I develop for a living can add value in this new chain, or get value from it. One things that Portals have for them is a centralized identity, group and preferences management. How can we take advantage of this compared to decentralized systems such as RSS feeds from blogs ? That is the question.
Thanks for this article Clay, and Ben for this new initiative. This is very good food for thought for a closed source Portal developer such as myself :-)
3:30:00 PM Google It!
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Looking for the next big thing [Ray Grieselhuber's Weblog]
Totally agree with that analysis:
I think the reason that we (developers) get bored so easily, is that we are always looking for the same thing: it. We find something new, we begin a new project, and we think this may be it, the killer app, the revolutionary paradigm shift, the New Way. And every time we get excited about the Something New, there is also a nagging doubt that this too, like everything else before it, may not be it. And so we move on, until we read in the news about how someone took the same ideas that you had, and turned them into something truly revolutionary, a movement. It's amazing to me.
I have to add that I begin to burn out on pure server side Java only this year. I dream of cool clients, like Mozilla/XUL, C# or Swing and local apps like Radio or Hep :-)
4:29:17 AM Google It!
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Liberty Alliance foreshadows products, services. Web services group identifies 22 new members [InfoWorld: Top News]
Among the differences are Microsoft's central management of user data versus the Liberty Alliance's decentralized approach.
For an infrastructure as critical as identity services, which one do you think is more apt to survival: the centralized or decentralized architecture ?-)
3:01:50 AM Google It!
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Steve Jobs' keynote. [Otaku, Cedric's weblog]
Cedric's recollection of Steve Jobs keynote made me laugh out loud. Here's the recollection of the same event by my friend Francois, who's a long time Apple fan Steve Jobs MacWorld SF 2003 Keynote tidbits.
I recently had to order a new laptop and had an itch to switch. Francois and I had a few email exchanges about this along which he nearly convinced me to switch. One of my points of contention was: why buy a 1Ghz Apple laptop when I can have a 2 Ghz Intel based laptop for cheaper ?
I think the 17'' screen is not enough to convince me. Mark Pilgrim's terse account of the keynote sums it up:
New larger PowerBook. Still 1 GHz, but with a 17-inch screen. $3299.
Moreover, this analysis, Merrill Lynch to Apple investors: Sell , just convinces me more than ever that Apple is not the way to go.
"Although Apple makes great products, in our view the new product pipeline looks skimpy and we expect continued market share losses," Hillmeyer wrote. "A product differentiation strategy is difficult in a business increasingly commoditizing."
Commoditization is the name of the game in hardware and software these days.
And I have to mention 2 other drawbacks to confort me in my no switch decision:
- The tasteless idea to create yet another incompatible browser: Safari, as if the Microsoft/Netscape browser war had taught them nothing and us poor web developers needed one more browser to support. See Mark Pilgrim's Safari Review. Why couldn't Apple standardize on a Mozilla based browser, like Chimera ?
- The risky gamble of using the not yet approved IEEE 802.11g standard for wireless access. Apple ramps up wireless in notebooks explains the risks:
2:54:53 AM Google It!
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Blog Tribe Social Network Mapping and Technicolor Blogmap
Here is the initial social network analysis of the Blog Tribe at Ryze -- which maps the Friendship networks and Blogrolls of Tribe members
[Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
Great experiment in social network analysis and group forming through weblogs. I'm curious to see where this will lead. More specifically I hope he will provide a movie based on the evolution of the social network map with time, allowing you to see the transformation of the map with time.
2:21:07 AM Google It!
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© Copyright 2003 Patrick Chanezon.
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