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Web 2.0: Is it just hype?
For the past year or so, there’s been lots of chattering about this Web 2.0. The term came to life when Dale Dougherty of O’Reilly Media brainstormed with MediaLive’s Craig Cline.
Is it just another term that Web experts and personalities are spreading to drum up followers and business? If nothing else, many (resources at the end of the article plus we’ll skip quoting the ones that have been quoted a hundred times already) agree the Web is still maturing and it’s changing from “I go get” to “come to me,” says Thomas Vander Wal[1].
The term is hype. That is all it is. Hype. Cry and scream, if you want, but the Web can’t have a label like this. It’s not a project with a start and finish timeline. It evolves. When the first phone came to be, it didn’t get names like Phone 1.0 or Phone BC (before cell). The phone industry involved and now the lines are blurring between phones and Internet connections, even cable television.
But, the thoughts and ideas behind it are important.
Poster children for 2.0
The Web is no longer static and one-way — visitors read content and play no role. Instead, we’re seeing users who participate and connect to each other using services as opposed to Web sites. Applications are no longer limited to desktops or even the Web site itself as more Web-based applications come out.
Sites are becoming more interactive so users aren’t simply sitting and watching the Web go by. They can do something with the content they see, even if it’s not their own and it happens instantly.
Zimbra (http://www.zimbra.com/), Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/), Writely (http://www.writely.com/), CalendarHub (http://www.calendarhub.com/), ObjectGraph Dictionary (http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary/), TuDu (http://app.ess.ch/tudu/welcome.action), and a Periodic Table of the Elements (http://code.jalenack.com/periodic/) are examples of two-way communication that occur in real-time. Go to these sites and play with them. It should be easy to see why these (and few other obvious that don’t need another mention) are the epitome of where the Web is going.
Repeating themes
In most Web 2.0 articles, the following are recurring themes:
*Semantic markup.
*XML.
*Portable content – content crosses paths, appears in multiple places, and connects.
*Users get real-time control.
*Adding metadata, tags, keywords to anything and everything.
Content can go anywhere thanks to RSS feeds and API (application program interface). Feeds allow people to subscribe to a Web site’s content or port them into their own Web sites or mobile devices. Google, Amazon, and eBay have APIs to let developers build applications that use these Web site’s tools. An example of API is adding a Google map to your Web site that shows how to get to your location.
All of these are indicators of the big steps forward we’re seeing on the Web. They should not be grouped and labeled.
I still don’t get it. What is 2.0?
Forget Web 2.0, but not what it represents.
It represents the change in how people and information interact on the Web. It represents designers and developers are thinking about how people use information and that users add value. It represents different approaches for making this happen.
To be honest, writing this article has been difficult. Read the many definitions of Web 2.0 on the Web and no two say the same thing. It’s yet another buzzword. As Rick Segal writes in his post on the topic, “Don’t look for the buzz words to get you into the game or get you a check.”
The term isn’t important. It’s about seeing a change in the Web as users enjoy more real-time control and participation while connecting to each other through many means. So to heck with the “label” and just know the Web is growing up and a lot of things are happening in terms of the advances made to make it a more interactive experience that puts the user in the driver’s seat.
“The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It’s not a real concept. It has no meaning. It’s a big, vague, nebulous cloud of pure architectural nothingness,” writes Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software .
Vander Wal says, “There is more hype in Web 2.0 than great steps forward.”
Amen.
Delete user profiles in Windows 2000 Pro with Delprof.exe
The Delprof.exe tool included with the Windows 2000 Resource Kit makes it easy to remove user profiles locally or on a remote computer. Find out how this tool can save you time and help you free up space on the drive.
User profiles store documents, application settings, certain temporary files, custom colors, and more. A single user’s profile can be quite large; when multiple users share a computer, the profiles can take up a considerable amount of space.
When a user stops using a particular shared computer, you can typically delete the profile to free up space on the drive for other users, applications, temporary files, and so on. While you could delete the folder structure manually, doing so can be very time consuming. What’s more, you might need to remove a profile on a remote computer.
The Delprof.exe tool included with the Windows 2000 Resource Kit makes it easy to remove user profiles locally or on a remote computer. Delprof.exe can delete profiles on computers running Windows NT or later (except for Windows 9x or ME machines).
Delprof.exe supports several command-line arguments that let you specify the target computer, run the tool in quiet mode, force continuation when an error occurs, and cause the tool to prompt for verification before deleting the profile. You can also specify a number of days of inactivity, and Delprof.exe will delete any profiles that have seen no activity for that period or longer.
To view the syntax for Delprof.exe, execute the following command:
delprof /?
Aishwarya dispels bikini rumours
On�her 32nd birthday on�November 1, Aishwarya Rai is feeling on top of the world and looking like a million bucks. Is that what she got paid for her performance in Doug Lefler’s Last Legion?
“Ha! I’m not telling. What I’ll tell you is, I’ve never had so much fun acting. So far I was doing lots of roles that required me to play women with a heavy soul — not that I didn’t enjoy that phase of my career — but now I’m finally playing girls who wanna have fun.”
In Last Legion, which she has just shot in Tunisia and Slovakia, she plays a horse-riding, sword-swishing warrior.
“I’ve never done this before. It was really something! There’s a lot of sword fighting. There was hardly any time to prepare, to learn these things. I reached on-location and almost immediately got into it. The whole ambience was so professional and yet so relaxed. All of us were work-oriented, but it wasn’t all work and no play. Everyone was so much into work, and yet having a good time.”
Ash is the main and only female lead in the film. So, is this her true launch into international cine-stardom?
“I don’t see Last Legion that way,” Ash says. “Why do you see it as my international launch? Why are Provoked or Mistress Of Spices not international projects? Because I play Indian characters in them? It doesn’t work that way for me.”
After this film, Ash goes into Umrao Jaan and Dhoom 2. “Both are very different from one another. I’ve never played these kinds of roles before.”
How true are rumours that she is losing weight to fit into a bikini for Dhoom 2?
“There’s no bikini, please! But yes, I’ve definitely lost weight. It’s a process that started earlier for Last Legion. If I had to get on a horse I had to look worthy of it, no? And since in Dhoom 2 I’m playing an utter hip-and-now character, I naturally needed to get more into shape. It was natural process, not one of those dietary missions.
“I had never worked out, never made any effort to lose weight. I’m a total foodie with a sweet tooth. I’ve never tried to control my diet. During Bride & Prejudice and Raincoat the directors did want me to look a little heavy for my characters. But for Last Legion and Dhoom 2 I had to close it. Nothing stipulated in the contract or anything, please! But just something I thought I needed to do.”
Is she in a transitional phase in her career? “I’ve never looked at my career in phases.� There’s never the urge to look at one particular part of my career as all consuming. People from the outside can perhaps categorise different phases in my career. For me everything I do is equally important. You may think some of my earlier films were candyfloss. But believe you me, they were as hard to do as the battered wife in Provoked or the warrior in Last Legion.”
Talk veers to Amitabh Bachchan and his ‘Madam, I’m your only Adam’ declaration in Bunty Aur Babli.
“I didn’t know Mr Bachchan had quietly incorporated that line for me at the end of our number in Bunty Aur Babli,” says Ash.
And she is genuinely surprised when I inform her Madam I’m your Adam has become�a song in David Dhawan’s new comedy Shaadi No 1.
“You can’t be serious! Really? But that was a special line, only for me. They can’t do that,” she grumbles jokingly.
Ten Ways to Keep Your Website Unnoticed on the Internet
If you are a person who likes to keep up with current trends you will know that it is important to have your own website. After all anybody who is Anybody Important has a website of their very own. However one of the dangers of having a website is that someone browsing on the internet might discover it one day and what is worse, actually pause to visit your site and read its contents! They might even be interested stopping for a while to read what you wrote in it, or want to buy the widget you thought might be good to sell as you have more than one of them.
If you would like to reduce the possibilities of that happening be sure to follow these ten tips, and you can be sure that very few people will even know your website exists.
1. Choose an obscure domain name. Make sure the name you select has no relevance to the content of your site, to you or your business. Whatever you do make sure the domain name contains NO keywords that would indicate what your site is about and attract attention when someone searches for a site with your content or product.
2. Do not submit your website URL to any search engines, especially the big ones like Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Do not participate in any offers for your website to be submitted to search engines for free.
3. Never add fresh content or pages to your website. In fact it is a better idea to identically duplicate your content on every page.
4. Avoid reading anything about how to promote traffic to your website. One of the strategies might sink into your sub conscious, and you might find yourself promoting your site by accident.
5. Set up your website and then just leave it. Try not even to visit it yourself if possible in case your computer has tracking cookies. Any visits to your site could attract attention.
6. Make sure that you have a generic e mail address that you use all the time. An example of this might be a hotmail or yahoo address. Then when you write emails no one can track down your website through your email address. An address like me @mywebsite.com would just give the game away.
7. Even if you are passionate about writing, do not even consider writing an article and submitting it to a free article submission site such as Articles Beyond Better.Com. The problem with submitting an article is that you have to put something in the resource box which tells other people who you are and how to visit your website and buy your widget. It’s amazing how just one article can be reprinted all over the internet, and read by people all over the world. That kind of exposure is very harmful to secret websites which do not want to receive any visits.
8. Do not put a blog or bulletin board on your website. This just encourages all sorts of visitors who want to read what you write and ask you questions. Some people often make return visits, or even become regular visitors to blogs, forums and bulletin boards. After all it would be terrible if someone actually ‘bookmarked’ your site and came back because they liked it!
9. Do not ever mention or put your website address on your business card, any promotional business material, or as a signature file on every e mail you send.
10. Choose an unreliable hosting service that has a bad reputation. In this way the server will not be up all the time, and people will not be able to access your site even if they wanted to.
By following these guidelines you can be pretty sure that no one will notice that your website exists. I hope you have plenty of money though, and are not wanting to make any income from your website. The problem with a website that is un noticed is that you still have to pay your hosting server every month for the privilege of your website taking up space on their server even if no one comes to visit it.
