https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/categories/futureofwebapps/ Recent content in futureofwebapps on timandkathy.co.uk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/cal-henderson-building-flickr/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/cal-henderson-building-flickr/ “Ten reasons to love Web 2.0” Flickr is awesome! It certainly is… Web 2.0 - kinda awesome… Flickr 2.0 is 2 years old on Tuesday! About 2 million users - many passionate ones The developers are passionate about what they do Passionate developers make for passionate users User wants vs user needs (recurring theme here…) Don’t listen to your users - they say what they want but don’t really want them Give them what they need and they’re more likely to be passionate 10 things: Collaboration. https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/joshua-schacter-delicious-what-weve-learned/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/joshua-schacter-delicious-what-weve-learned/ Browser inconsistencies Scaling - SQL isn’t great under heavy load Think beyond one web server, one db server Abuse “Idiots are a lot smarter than you” Wait to see what breaks before you fix it Apache Know it inside out Put a proxy in front that isn’t apache - helm? - to add throttling etc etc Images on a separate server RSS on a separate server Use throttling - mod_throttle doesn’t work very well… APIs Built in from the start, because the developer needed it Greatly encourages adoption No lock-in - the user owns their data No API key in del. https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/liveblogging-carson-workshops-summit/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/liveblogging-carson-workshops-summit/ The wi-fi is pretty clogged, so I’ll cut to the chase… https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/maybe-ill-stop-now/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/maybe-ill-stop-now/ All of this stuff is being recorded and will be made available, for free, after the event. My notes, therefore, and my battle with Wordpress’s rich text editor, seem like a bit of a waste of time… https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/tom-coates-native-to-a-web-of-data/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2006/02/08/tom-coates-native-to-a-web-of-data/ Design and Web 2.0: it’s all about the rounded corners and gradients ;) Blogger may have started the trend Outline What is the web changing into? What can you / should you build on it? Architectural principles of Web 2.0 Web 2.0? Buzzword, conference, new way of thinking Web 2.0 means so many things to so many people though Let’s concentrate on a “web of connected stuff” Web at the moment - data silos Now and in the future: A web of data sources, services for exploring and manipulating data, ways that users can act together Web of pages -> web of mashups - > a web of data Mashups two disparate data sources, made more useful by being combined with eachother A network effect of services Build on top of what’s already there What you build enhances what’s already there Consequences Massive creative possibilities Accel.