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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/p2p_growth_trend_watch.php
[...]"Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic was 60% (and rising) of Internet traffic in 2004, with BitTorrent accounting for 30% of traffic"[...]

that article is from 2006 (2(!) years(!) ago) and was the first find using google...

Looks like AT&T's shiny product isn't worth shit if they have to bitch about protocols that were already a requirement in 2004...

Comparisons are OK, but let's look at reliability. EC2 is not the same as S3, but the recent fiasco with S3 and SQS should give people pause before considering using any other Amazon cloud services. Two of my clients were hit with this over the weekend.

I don't know what kinds of volumes (traffic and hosting) Google AE is handling at this point, but at this point I think I would trust Google more than Amazon. One of the issues with the S3 downtime for many people was the fact that Amazon itself (and all its properties) continued to run perfectly while all the sites that hosted images and other content with them failed. Does Google use its own infrastructure to host AE? I don't know, but if they do I'd trust them a hell of a lot more than AWS.

At this point I'm thinking I'm not going to recommend AWS anymore.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_openid_five_key_takeaways.php, also: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/02/microsoft_to_support_openid.html, and http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/302830_msftopenid08.html

But it's not like anyone can pull up my profile and check

Actually, at various points in the past, they've been able to do that or similar things (see stuff you thought was private).

Trusting any company on the web with your private info should be a difficult decision, trusting Facebook is insane given the lack of interest in privacy they have shown so far, and the poor attention to security on their site. They're such a juicy target now that you can bet a lot of identity thieves are focussed on breaking their security, and a lot of big companies are interested in buying your surfing habits too.

As far as I can tell, MS has no intention ever to support xhtml, which means it can never properly support inline mathml. Essentially a lot of people are treating xhtml as a failure, and focusing on html 5 instead. The problem with that is that it makes it impossible to support inline mathml or svg.

According to this, it's on the way.

According to the blog Read Write Web, they received an e-mail from Jason Fried, the 37Signals founder, claiming that it was basically a "feature for feature, layout for layout" copy. That's the closest I've found to them officially whining so far.

This is not true.

You want software that helps you. If it does what you mean, you win. Google and some other web apps do it right. That's why Google doesn't suck. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/udi_manber_search_is_a_hard_problem.php

However, not everyone is Google. For them, you do want them to KISS, otherwise they will fail and the software will not help you. You will be angry.

But, when the software does what you mean, rejoice.

Here's another article: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_apps_serious_threat_to_microsoft_office.php

Mainstream applications are moving onto the browser. Everything is changing as a result. I, for one, am having a hard time predicting the future. Does this development, for instance, presage the death of the corporate IT department?

The other day I was having a chat with our school's senior management. I observed that many apps were moving onto the browser and that this would make it easier for the students to use laptops because the school wouldn't have to be concerned about managing the software on those laptops. He observed that we still had issues with programs like AutoCad. The thing that impressed me was that the VP had a ready answer. It seems like he had already been thinking about the issue.

A sample set of one isn't something on which to draw conclusions. Even so, if management types, who don't usually spend much time thinking about IT issues, are seriously thinking about web aps, it seems like there is some enthusiasm for going that direction. Desktop applications may move online quite quickly.

I've been wondering the same thing, actually, and found this post on ReadWriteWeb on Dapper's plans to use semantic data to drive an advertising network pretty interesting: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dapper_funding_the_semantic_web.php For a company like Reuters, I could see them driving ads for country, market, or industry reports using the tags embedded in their stories, or let other businesses further down the information analysis pipeline do the same.

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted an interesting article on the subject (and actually a day before the whole Facebook-scoble story)

Yes, this was discussed in an earlier Slashdot story, " RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized", and in a bunch of other places:

* Boing Boing p2pnet reddit Heise Online (German) Truemors BlogRunner/Digital Rights Hugh Casey IDG (Polish) Geek News Central CE Pro Gizmodo TechDirt Read/Write Web Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection TDPRI WhatReallyHappened.com Slyck Root.cz (Czech) Craigslist Forums Hard OCP Wired.com Uneasy Silence Overclock.net Wake World SpaceBattles.com Hydrogen Audio BrickFilms.com Hockey Zombie iLounge Zune Scene AllmanBrothersBand.com Golem (German) PC Magazin (German) Tweakers (Dutch) Mackauf (German) Wake Space Kino-eye.com Digital Copyright Canada Northwest Progressive Institute Louisville Music News Frant

Interesting, considering this recent story about a tinyURL outage:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/tinyurl_outage_shows_fragility.php

Thanks for the link.

The article said "the new Flash Player will be available later today" and the article is dated August 20. So I assumed the new player would be available this morning, August 21.

Apparently, the press release mentions "later today" as well, but is dated August 21.
I guess I'll have to be patient.

Clueless M$ user Macthorpe is confused by hosting and dreams of a M$ dominated web. By M$ hosting disaster I mean companies that tried to sell web hosting all bellied up. Your little partial quote of the top twenty web sites does not bring the results you want either (an old list). You can add up all of the M$ sites and barely beat either Yahoo or Google but not both. AOL does not use M$ . When you add them, youtube, wikipedia and other great GNU powered sites, M$ quickly vanishes. When you include the traffic from all the smaller sites, there's no contest at all.

I haven't been able to find much more than marketing buzz either, but my impression is that it is Microsoft's attempt to compete with flash. Found a a news article specifically stating this actually. So there you go. They're also trying to compete with PDF.

Google Will Soon Become the "Commodore 64" of Internet Search

It is very likely that Google, et al, will soon become the "Commodore 64" of Internet search (cool technology for about ten years that was supplanted by something much better).

If you go to the current listing of open job positions at Google (http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/index.html) and do a search on the keyword "semantic" you get one result and this result is not related to the Semantic Web. Similar searches at Yahoo Corporate and Microsoft show ten to fifteen results for the keyword "semantic" and none of these are related to the Semantic Web. At ask.com "Careers" there are zero results for a search on the keyword "semantic".

Semantic Bridge Technologies (http://www.semanticbridgetechnologies.com/) is a startup company located in Austin, TX. We are creating a tool set and the supporting infrastructure for the implementation of the Semantic Web. We are taking a very pragmatic approach. Our target audience is comprised of web designers and software engineers who build Internet applications not theorists who study semantic structures. We are building a bridge, not an ivory tower.

The creation of a dynamic and interactive, "Semantic Knowledge Repository", along with the tools that will allow web designers and software engineers to easily interact with this repository will have a profound impact on the rapid deployment of the Semantic Web.

The technologies of the Semantic Bridge Project could truly transform the world.

Final Note: There is a great deal of innovation going on in Internet search and it is not happening at the major Internet search companies: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alter native_search_engines_mar07.php

web office apps only make sense on actual PC's with solid connections.

How did you manage to miss all the hoopla about offline app support in Firefox 3.0? And guess what, someone might even create a web app that is targeted at mobile devices.

Wait for Firefox 3.0. Soon you'll be able to use your web apps, even if you're connected at 0 Mbps.

I've been using GWO for a while now. It is ok. But for many, the variations are normally more than a page change (like under-the-hood shared objects), so it basically throws out many uses for this. If you do like GWO, I suggest you check out CrazyEgg: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/crazyegg_meas uring_website_usability.php

I think it is more than hypothetical about showing to Google. "Morfik is tight-lipped about GWT, as they are apparently still under NDA obligations." http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/morfik_ajax_p latform.php/. So I would read this as saying Google contacted Morfik and signed an NDA with them sometime in 2005 to look at what they were doing before they released GWT in 2006.

But, buried under the "game" talk is a considerable legal issue--one which I'm surprised has gone silent. Can Blizzard claim to "own" all character data? Yes, yes, we sign away our lives when we "sign" user agreements; but doesn't the shift into a "web2.0" (and here I'm using this term to signify: distributed, information-based, user-oriented economy, pulling my definition from Tim O'Reilly's article) economy place a tremendous value on user information? This is the argument made by Alex Iskold in his recent article "The Attention Economy" and is the kind of argument at the heart of Lessig's work. And this is why, in my opinion (as someone who has never played WoW but played Socom rather religiously for a couple years), this is a "rights" issue. Or at least it should be.

If Firefox 3 supports offline apps http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/firefox_3_off line_apps.php, maybe that could fix this "obvious flaw".

Aren't there a huge plethora of sites that allow you to basically collect little applets and RSS feeds for a customized home feed?

Probably, yes. When I saw the description I was reminded of PageFlakes, which uses ASP.NET / Atlas:
http://www.pageflakes.com/

(NetVibes appears to be using PHP in combination with an AJAX framework.)

Possibly Slashdot-worthy because NetVibes is getting all the traffic, trouncing PageFlakes and ProtoPage:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ajax_homepage s.php

E-learning 2.0 article by Stephen Downes. Read/WriteWeb's E-learning 2.0 overview

You should check out the discussion going on at ReadWriteWeb. Ebrahim Ezzy's post is interesting, as are the comments. There's also more followup from industry as they bring Web 2.0 products to market. SharpCast, TeamDirection and x-port. Hopefully with such interesting ideas, Web 2.0 won't implode like Web 1.0 did.

You should check out the discussion going on at ReadWriteWeb. Ebrahim Ezzy's post is interesting, as are the comments. There's also more followup from industry as they bring Web 2.0 products to market. SharpCast, TeamDirection and x-port. Hopefully with such interesting ideas, Web 2.0 won't implode like Web 1.0 did.

Given some of the comments about wanting more context, I've now done a podcast of the entire interview.

What a poorly-written article. It's like they just cruised through Wikipedia and copy-and-pasted a bunch of stuff.

Ars Technica used to be good, but now that they're making almost a half-mil a year with their subscriptions and product sales, the article quality has gone waaaay downhill. Nothing like a few bucks and minor notoriety to make a blogger fat and lazy.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, there are features of Wiki that are closer to Ted Nelson's ideas in Xanadu than made it into the plain WWW...