Slowly Accepting Web 2.0
Wednesday January 23, 2008 // Share on Facebook
Very slowly, I’m accepting this whole “Web 2.0″ thing. Yeah, I know it’s been around for a while now, but I have to see a service in use for a while, and understand why it’s better than what I’m currently using before I’ll move to it.
I’ve been blogging before it was called blogging. In fact, my first site (found in archive.org) has a first post date of September 27, 2000. I wrote the software that ran the site myself, and it wasn’t pretty. Then I moved to a packaged system which was clunky and ugly, then I moved to Blogger, and finally to Wordpress in October of 2006. I’ve been with Wordpress since then, and see no reason to change - Wordpress rocks!
My first big (and this was BIG) move was when I switched my email from an Outlook / POP combo to Gmail and Google Aps. One day, I just signed up, switched my MX record, and started using it. Very smooth transition.
Last year, I joined Facebook. So far, it’s only wasted my time and reminded me of all the people that I don’t remember from high school. The only good thing about Facebook is that they have a very nice mobile interface. Other than that, it’s a waste of my time. I should just get rid of it.
Yesterday, I decided to give del.icio.us a try again. My bookmarks were getting out of control, and Firefox didn’t do a good job keeping them organized for me. So I moved my bookmarks to del.icio.us, keeping a few in my toolbar (ones that I use multiple times a day) and adding a few to the Google Bookmarks service (part of the Google Toolbar).
I think I have a good balance now, with my common & temporary bookmarks in del.icio.us, bookmarks that I use almost daily with Google (Plesk login pages, PPC & Network login pages) and ones that I use multiple times a day in the toolbar (Google Reader, Gmail, Weather, Yahoo Finance portfolio).
So what am I doing on my desktop, that I should move to an online service? What other Web 2.0 services do you use, that I should look into?
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