walkah: what happens when web2.0 is down?
what happens when web2.0 is down?
whether you care for the buzzwords or not, sites on the internet these days are doing a lot more than ever before. consequently they are much more complicated not only to build, but to maintain and just plain keep online. believe me, we run a site or two at bryght and it has it's challenges. there's a whole lot of activity going on in a two-way data flow (syndication, aggregation, web service transactions, etc...). the web feels much more, well... entangled.
so, what happens when pieces fall off the map? what if they're big pieces?
case in point, two services that i use heavily every day del.icio.us and bloglines have been offline for extended periods today (planned in the case of the latter- but still).
certainly, the world is not ending, nor am I particularly upset. I understand it happens all too well. but there are those (and I'd consider myself amongst them) who see this trend of inter-conneted sites publishing and subscribing to each other's data as the future. but, in my (rarely humble) opinion, we need to be really careful about where our data lives. certainly levels lower in the stack have always had to worry about this. and the internet is a big, resilient place. certainly, if say flickr were to disappear and never return it wouldn't be the end of the world right? I mean, we all paid for DVD backups of all our pictures, right? we could just re-upload, re-tag, re-instate that community somewhere else. no problem, right? yikes.
there's a lot to be said for decentralization.
James Walker
not only decentralisation, but de-copyrightalisattion
Eventhough wikipedia runs on a central computer, its content is spread all over the web. The site and infrastructure can die, but not the knowledge.
Flickr, delicious are (potential) evil. They are ran and owned by corporate investors, who are not interested in your pictures or your bookmarks, but in the profit it can bring.
One day, flickr will not bring enough money anymore and will stop, or merged, or whatever.
Hence we need not only decentralised yet connected places to do our web2.0 stuff, but we need to open up the databases and knowledge that hold all our collaborative content.
Uh oh
My naive faith in the niceness of people who use colloquial language in their user interface (Flickr, I'm talking about you) has allowed me to believe that of course they'll protect my photos for till the end of time. I suppose I ought to start backing up more often...
This is what happens....
Check out Diary-X (WikiPedia entry)... not really a web 2.0 application in that it was "just" a blog engine, but it went down, there were no backups, many people were scrood.
-Leigh
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That will be a massive
That will be a massive impact if any of the big players went down.
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The internet will be what that isolates the elderly from the young. This is quite sad. Whether it is Web 2.0 or not, the web will be a difficult thing for the elderly to learn.
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