You know the drill, you find a shiny new social media site that you like the look of. All your investigations into the site check out, it’s reviews from your peers sound promising. So you go to register, only to find that it is in limited beta release. This is the type where you need the invite code to sign up.
Only way to get the invite code is from an existing member or put your name down on the public request for an invite list. A list that you just know is going to be kilometres long already. So you sign up anyway, hoping that they will get to you soon. But you know in the back of your mind that this isn’t going to happen.
Seems the W3C is running into a little trouble with it’s validation service. You know know the one, the HTML and CSS validation tools that allows you to validate your sites to the W3C guidelines. They are now calling for financial assistance in the form for sponsorship and donations. This does raise the question how is it that the W3C with its expensive membership fees and list of prestigious supporters has gotten itself into this type of predicament.
Finally Wordpress 2.7 is released, but don’t you just hate all the endless upgrades, especially if you have code base modifications in place.
Whether or not you like Wordpress as a blogging platform is debatable, but you have to agree that it does have a large slice of the market share. And when you get to be a tall poppy like Wordpress, just in shear numbers you will get (that is find) your security problems as people poke holes in your product.
Cloud computing is all the buzz at the moment, another trendy topic, but it isn’t that new in relative terms, either is the SaaS models, having grown out of the ASP model of the last century.
But you know despite being immersed in all this web “stuff” from day to day, I just have this nagging feeling about the information we put out in the cloud. Is it really that safe!
At the Edge of Web Conference colleague Stephen Collins in his Enterprise 2.0 - A New Age of Aquarius? talk touched on the social aspect of SaaS and that most of his software that he uses is in the cloud. Leaving very little in terms of desktop software.
