Wednesday, January 08, 2003

Sam Ruby about LazyWeb LazyWebs Trackback: Fun recursion 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    comment []

Clay Shirky about LazyWeb and RSS, and thoughts about the decline of Portals 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    comment []

I dream of cool clients and local apps 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    comment []

Wei-Meng Lee beginner article about weblogs at O'Reilly Understanding weblogs, a good beginner's article by by Wei-Meng Lee at O'Reilly on the subject. 4:17:02 AM    comment []

Great experiment in social network analysis and group forming through weblogs 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    comment []