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title: what happens when web2.0 is down?
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created: 1135063895
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permalink: blog/what-happens-when-web2-0-is-down/
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whether you care for the buzzwords or not, sites on the internet these days are *doing* a lot more than ever before. consequently they are much more complicated not only to build, but to maintain and just plain keep online. believe me, we run a site or two at <a href="http://www.bryght.com/" title="Bryght managed community hosting">bryght</a> and it has it's challenges. there's a whole lot of activity going on in a two-way data flow (syndication, aggregation, web service transactions, etc...). the web feels much more, well... entangled.
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so, what happens when pieces fall off the map? what if they're big pieces?
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case in point, two services that i use heavily every day <a href="http://del.icio.us/" title="del.icio.us" title="social bookmarks">del.icio.us</a> and <a href="http://www.bloglines.com/" title="rss reading">bloglines</a> have been offline for extended periods today (planned in the case of the latter- but still).
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certainly, the world is not ending, nor am I particularly upset. I understand it happens <a href="http://support.bryght.com/">all too well</a>. but there are those (and I'd consider myself amongst them) who see this trend of inter-conneted sites publishing and subscribing to each other's data as the future. but, in my (rarely humble) opinion, we need to be really careful about where our data *lives*. certainly levels lower in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model" title="OSI model">the stack</a> have always had to worry about this. and the internet is a big, resilient place. certainly, if say <a href="http://flickr.com/">flickr</a> were to disappear and never return it wouldn't be the *end* of the world right? I mean, we all paid for DVD backups of all our pictures, right? we could just re-upload, re-tag, re-instate that community somewhere else. no problem, right? yikes.
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there's a lot to be said for decentralization.
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