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Javascript and Round Corners aren't enough
Now it's quasi official. Web 2.0 is - or was - no more than hype, a rhetorical bubble, not based on a technical specification, something tangible, but just promises of good times. And promoted by those who have outed themselves as nothing but promoters before.
Waste not, Want not
Sites creating each requested page dynamically are affected most, but even sites delivering static HTML pages can suffer, because Yahoo's spider Slurp appears to have been, like most other Yahoo properties, bolted together without any concern about efficient use of resources [or others]. This is even apparent when requesting Yahoo's Spider FAQ, which is spread out over many pages, and, unfortunately, doesn't stop anywhere if one believes a number or forum posts complaining about Slurp's excessive spidering rate.
How to get People to blog about you
Almost all but the last few of the 17 tips for getting bloggers to write about you are essential. Most are also obvious to those who live the web. Still, I found one more reason to discourage the use of Flash.
Security 2.0
Looks like the security of so called Web 2.0, including sites such as Facebook and Myspace, is coming under scrutiny at last. The problem is, that "Most companies are barely providing sufficient protection in the context of Web 1.0."
What an Irony!
It takes Stephen Fry to state: "For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago?"
Mobile Web
An easy way to avoid coding mobile web pages is to ignore the iPhone and any other web enabled mobile devices and let Google handle the problem. Google already lends a helping hand - unasked - if your pages don't include code for handhelds and a query comes from a handheld device.
There are better ways, though, once you have seen one of your own pages on Google and an alternative.
Another Fence to be Whitewashed
Just last week I mentioned whitewashing fences when Google announces its creatively named scheme "knol" [a unit of knowledge], allowing users to create content. The challenge, so the announcement, "was to find a way to help people share their knowledge". Old folk will remember that we had to make do with the internet for this.
Your taxes at work
Just in case you didn't know what "Value Added Tax" was good for, here's a screenshot explaining it all:
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