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Weblog:   Is Web 2.0 just like one big Unix box?
Subject:   Tenuous connection
Date:   2005-12-20 17:27:41
From:   wbk
Unless I'm going to be able to throw a pipe character between two URLs and get busy, I don't see this leading anywhere.


Unix is simple and sane; aggregating RSS feeds and writing XML tree-walkers is.... not.
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  • Paul Browne photo Tenuous connection
    2005-12-21 03:54:16  Paul Browne | O'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

    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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