This weekend is the 111th running of the Boston Marathon. The weather certainly looks like it will be a factor this year (isn’t it always?) with rain, and maybe even snow, predicted for what will be a cold race day.
Maybe it is semantics, but there is a clear distinction between an OS, and some of the offerings on the web. That’s not to diminish what they provide, but they’re not “operating system” in the classic sense from my perspective.
Some good tips here. I think the one that I find hardest is #2 and having an “official end of your day”. It’s all too easy to keep working until you finish off the thing you’re doing.
More commentary on the state of the web, and some of the dog-eat-dog moves that are going on. On one hand you can’t argue with what Google and the other established players are doing, after all they have a business to support too and people are making money off their services. However, they are shooting themselves in the foot if they create an environment where nobody builds anything on top of their services for fear of being put out of business when the big players feel like wielding their power. Perhaps this is really just another sign that there is no real business models in on the web that have proven successful beyond advertising.
I was getting bored with the monotone, all text design, so I had a bit of a play with the HTML and CSS for the WordPress theme. There are still a few tweaks to make, but it’s mostly finished. If you happen to read this via a feed, you might want to wander over and take a look at it in all it’s glory!
Back in December I circulated a link to Steve Rubel’s post on the death of the page view. At the time it was one of the arsenal of weapons I was using to show that the effects of the technology shift we are within — begrudgingly I’ll acknowledge it as web 2.0 — are far reaching, and fundamentally alter the business model we have grown accustomed to.
I don’t think anyone really expects page views to completely disappear, in the same way that people still talk about hits (albeit never used for anything other that geek bragging rights these days). David Biesel talks about some of the emerging metrics and tools that are trying to provide useful information in the face of page views becoming less representative.
It’s interesting to see this evolve. Given the predominance of ad based business models, this under appreciated area of web technology, must keep step with content and browser technologies.