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| I saw this article on “Web Hosting
Outage Has Clients Pondering Options” yesterday.
Here are some quotes:
“With the Software as a Service
movement continues to gain momentum, the massive data center outage
at ValueWeb/Hostway, which knocked thousands of customer Web sites
off the Internet, has implications far beyond the hosting company's
doorstep.”
“Not only are companies that host
their applications with an on demand vendor at risk of excessive
downtime if a data center has longer-than-planned outages, but
developers could be impacted as well, particularly as more migrate to
Salesforce.com's Apex on-demand programming language and platform—and
others that may spring up like it.”
This is a challenge for Web 2.0 – how
can you trust the software to as a service vendors when it comes to
business continuity and reliability. What are the alternatives
available if they go down. For businesses, the down times have far
reaching implications, and the worse part is that, until they up it,
we are at the edge.
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| Google revolutionized the art of
searching in the Web. However are they, or anyone else for that
matter, ready for the challenges of the future Web? Google like
search engines, no matter how good their ranking algorithms, are
manly focusing on searching static contents and largely text. In Web
2.0, we would require the capability to search for services. How are
we to achieve this? Would serching the service interface, like a
WSDL, would do the trick? Or would we have to search service registry
contents, if so how?
The future Web search has to be more
than just text search. By this, I do not mean searching non text
material such as multimedia. Well that is most welcome, but text
search itself could improve a lot. In the future, when I am sing a
search engine, I wish I could use the same interface, but search
multiple aspects such as Web services, aggregate feeds, social
software tools etc. The search results need to tell me what kind of a
result it is, whether it is a service or a static or dynamic Web
page.
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| SOA is over the hype, as far as my
observations go. The architecture related best practices are here to
stay. What implications would Web 2.0 have on SOA?
I think, some elements of Web 2.0 would
revolutionize the way we architect our software systems. We used to
build software systems, either building all the elements of the
architecture in house or using COTS. However, in Web 2.0 era, the
chances are that, we could use services provided by others when
building our enterprise architecture. Not only Web services, but
other technologies such as AJAX, aggregation, social software would
make this a reality. And bulk of the software architecture would
consist of services provides by vendors outside the organization. The
advantage here is that, we could have the privilege of using well
tested, widely used services built by experts.
The notion of services as well as the
user community matters here. If we use, widely known and widely used
services, the chances are that our customers would have better
confidence on us. The competitive advantage would come form how good
we build our SOA, orchestrating the right set of services in the
right manner.
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In my opinion, no other company is
preparing for Web 2.0 better than Google. Google is addressing almost
all the aspects of Web 2.0, and seem to build a comprehensive
platform.
This platform includes blogging tool,
mashup, calender application, document application, news aggregation,
and the Web services APIs for their services.
Google has acquired some companies in
these lines. And some of the parts, it is building on its own.
It recently announced the plans for
Mashups, the news of which inspired me to think of their Web 2.0
platform plans.
They have leveraged AJAX to give users
rich feeling with their APIs. In fact people came to know the power
of AJAX simply because of the applications such as Google maps and
Gmail that used AJAX.
I cannot think of any other company
having similar kind of a strategy, even though Yahoo, IBM and others
have similar efforts, I do not see strategic nature like in the case
of Google. The most important thing about Google is that, some of the
applications, such as blogging, are already there for use, hence the
chances of improvement over time and also the chances of grabbing the
bulk of the user community are on the cards. In the contrary, Yahoo
and IBM are working behind closed doors.
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| What are the social bookmarking sites
out there? What are the better ones? How many of those sites that you
know of?
Well I was having a look around to find
out some information. I was curious as to how many are there and was
looking for good references.
I found this article
to be useful. Though a bit old, written in early 2005, it has very
good in depth analysis of nine social bookmarking tools that were
present those days, some of which are still around. There is a second
article written by
the same people on a case study on Connotea.
I also found this social bookmarks
create tool.
“This social bookmarks tool, created by TopRank's Thomas
McMahon aka TwisterMC, provides you with several easy to
implement options to encourage visitors to your blog to bookmark your
posts on the most popular social bookmark and news sites. “
The
beauty of this tool is that, apart form generating the Javascript
that you can embed to your blog or site, it has a comprehensive list
of bookmarking sites. This helped me to get a gage of how many would
be there.
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