Long time no see + Google Pages

Well, the Web 2.0 group seems to develop Web 2.0 not so fast. People
keep talking about tools, and rewrites theories. So, since I have
nothing new to show, I decided to talk about those Google Pages.

Sometimes
my students say that "Google Cola" will be the next Google Product.
It's just a joke, but not far from true – Google is working in lots of
different areas. But Google Pages is close to what Google seems to
think as a good tool, and close to Google's business. And pretty simple
to use. I decided to use it because it has (surprisingly) a better
photo support than Flickr. I created my own home page. Go there and take a look…

 

Web 2.0 and standards

Helder just published about a “Wiki 2.0″. WetPaint is a full of Web 2.0 techniques wiki, and looks like interesting. I particularly don’t think that some wikis (like MediaWiki) need to have much improve, but WetPaint have some improvements, like talk pages structured as weblog comments.

I was willing to try WetPaint, when I stared with a page saying: “Go away, because your Firefox version is not welcome here”. Well, I, as root user of my machine, am solving it by upgrading my Firefox. But I, as a developer, don’t want that my client be unable to use my service, just because she has an older version of her browser.

Web stardards was, on my mind, an old issue in web development. On my mind, only old-fashioned web pages do not open in any browser. This showed that I’m probably wrong, and that web standards should be subject of Web 2.0 discussions also.

 

AJAX Howto by Mozilla Foundation

When I started to speak about all tis Web 2.0 stuff, some programmers asked me about development-related tutorials. There’s a very simple one, made by Mozilla Foundation, in several languages. Definitely, people should try it.

 

Blog publishing at ordinary media

There’s an apparently new (as written in TechCrunch) Web 2.0 tool that looks like it’ll work very well. It tries to get the best part of weblogs and the best part of ordinary media, and put it all together.

It is fundamented on a simple idea. Webloggers, by default, want to maximize their posts’ views. News sites, by default, want to get the best quality texts in their issues. If webloggers can show their posts to news sites, news sites could link their pages to good quality weblogs’ posts. Got the point?

There started BlogBurst. A web page where you can subscribe your weblog for free, and whom news sites can hire the service. Looks like it is not 100% available for publishers (but I put my weblog there anyway), so it’s still unknown how exactly will it work. But looks like good enough to be checked…