Scott Ru gives us some insights on the process Amazon uses to handle user reviews on their site.
You start with some philosophical rules, and you try to make them stick. Providing guidelines is the only way to start.
CNet reports that Tim O’Reilly keynoted a message to the Web 2.0 community that they should stop building SuperPoke and try to challenge more real problems.
The CNet article jabs at O’Reilly Media itself helped to spawn some of these SuperPoke applications with all of these tech conferences that they have held but overall O’Reilly’s main message in the keynote resonates with me:
And you have to conclude, if you look at the focus of a lot of what you call ‘Web 2.0,’ the relentless focus on advertising-based consumer models, lightweight applications, we may be living in somewhat of a bubble, and I’m not talking about an investment bubble. (It’s) a reality bubble
So recently I saw this when doing a svn checkout of a project and ran into the following:
$ svn co http://svn.somewhere.com/svn/projects
svn: Unrecognized format for the relative external URL ”.
Wonderful. This indicated to me there was a problem with the svn externals somewhere. After noodling a little I decided to Google around and found this. Basically, duplicate listings in your svn:externals is a bad thing.
Seems that some cloud vendors (sheesh I really only knew about Google Ape… err App Engine, Amazon’s EC2 service, and GoGrid) have been having some issues watching customer data go up in a poof. oops.
Datacenter Knowledge mentions Flexiscale having issues
The problems for FlexiScale began when one of the main storage volumes was accidentally deleted by an employee during a system upgrade earlier this week.
as well as another company called LinkUp (although I guess it’s down now) having issues too:
a cloud storage previously known as Media Max, which shut down Aug. 8 after losing “an unspecified amount of customer data
Ouch. As the industry fashionistas and the hordes of zombies (and I guess everyone else pulled in from the vortex created) moves towards trying to fulfill what Nicholas Carr dubs the Big Switch I can only surmise that more cases of cloud computing companies will continue to go belly up due to dumb mistakes, poor execution, etc, name your classic dumb mistake here. This will leave behind the vendors who have spent time at multiple levels (besides just technology) to ensure that many of the typical mistakes that will hit any IT business can be recovered from instead of being the critical wound that kils.
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