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Weblog:   Is Web 2.0 just like one big Unix box?
Subject:   Tenuous connection
Date:   2005-12-21 03:54:16
From:   paulbrowne
Response to: Tenuous connection

To give an example, yesterday I was setting up Del.icio.us to post a daily summary of links to my Wordpress blogs.


Yes, it does all manner quite technically advanced stuff under the covers, using XML-RPC (probably quite similar in difficulty to unix processes), but all I had to do was enter in the URL of my blog and the security code and it just worked (in the same way the pipe character just worked). OK, not everything is this easy, but how many years has Unix been around compared to Web 2.0? (ie things will get even easier)


Of course, for both Unix / Linux and Web 2.0 use still have the option of doing more advanced stuff using the Perl / PHP / Ruby script of your choice.
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  • Tenuous connection
    2005-12-21 04:23:21  menglis3 [View]

    of course, the big difference is that i'm just a pleb user on the web2.0 unix - its not MY unix box, and the sysadmin team is full of BOFHs who never asks about downtime before they drop a service (http://martin-english.com/whatsup/2005/12/web-20-meltdown-v20/) .
    • Paul Browne photo Tenuous connection
      2005-12-21 04:37:06  Paul Browne | O'Reilly Blogger [View]

      I think most people are pleb users of Web 2.0 , except that you're honest enough to admit it!
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