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Web Singletons?

Posted by timothy on from the magrathea-dot-com dept.

tcmb writes "There are an uncounted number of web mail and picture sharing services, there are more than enough web sites for online bookmark management and friend-finding, but as far as I know there is only one Internet Archive. Which are the true web singletons, services that exist only once in this form?" And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?

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  1. wheresgeorge.com by treeves · · Score: 4, Informative
    was/is probably a "singleton".

    I lost interest when it seemed like very few of the bills I entered were later tracked.

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  2. Re:What? by mollymoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well a singleton is a software design pattern designed to allow exactly zero or one instances of a class to exist (typically a database connection). But whoever thought the term applies to the services provided by web apps is just an idiot.

    The word "singleton" wasn't invented to describe the design pattern, douchebag. It means there is only one of something and is used correctly in TFS.

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  3. Re:Here's a semi-unique time waster for 'ya ... by stiller · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, it was first recorded by Three Dog Night in 1969 and written by Harry Nilsson. allmusic