the dot-communist

A bitty browser with big potential

When defining his place in the heirarchy of Web developers, Scott Matthews describes himself as “a bitter old man who can’t talk Web 2.0 or mashup.” But as the brains behind Turnstyle,he’s also responsible for two very useful web applications: Andromeda, an application for sharing audio files through streaming media; and his latest creation, [...]

Posted at 3:08 am on February 17, 2006 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Administrivia, DHTML and Javascript, Podcasting, Streaming Media, Weblogs | read on

Tim Bray: Hey, that’s my TAXI!

On his ongoing blog, Sun Microsytems Web-god and XML godfather Tim Bray looks at The Real AJAX Upside. And guess what–it’s the servers, stupid (well, Tim would never say “stupid”). He also points out that he outlined a very similar architecture to AJAX, called TAXI, in 2001.

Sure, AJAX takes the load off of servers, [...]

Posted at 1:56 pm on February 16, 2006 | leave a comment | Filed Under: AJAX, Sun | read on

About

Once upon a time, there was a dot-communism, the heady philosophy of the first Internet boom that contended that any business model was good as long as it involved doing it first and doing it on the web.

Of course, the bubble burst. And a host of folks who had predicted the flaming demise of so many dot-commers lost a hobby by being right. Crap.

Then, along came “Web 2.0″. TechCrunch is Web 2.0’s official cheering section. People are throwing money at little startups again. Stoopid money. “Convergence” is being used freely in conversations again. Google has replaced AOL atop the pyramid of hypercapitalized Internet plays. Anybody with a hairbrained scheme, some JavaScript code and a web server can become a millionaire again.

Release the nay-sayers!