Kudos

A pause from my usual posts; I need to share a revelation:

I like to browse the web, looking for interesting blogs and exciting new services. Mostly, registration is required when accessing a new web service and, with some apprehension, I usually acquiesce and provide my details.

I have come to realize that I feel the same nagging apprehension during another kind of exploratory operation – installing a new piece of software on my computer. During long years of using windows, I have come to fear nothing more than bogging down my box with toys and utilities. Each new installation increases the size of your windows registry file which leads to a slowdown of your system’s performance. Install enough applications and your system will crawl. Furthermore, 1 in 10 applications will install nasty hidden thingies onto your box, compromising privacy, hijacking your machine and generally making your life miserable.

When registering to an online service, you do risk being spammed and you do risk a certain loss of privacy but current anti-spam technologies are so efficient (at least in my experience) that generally the risk will be fairly low – and you can register to as many services as you like and your computer’s performance will not be affected at all.

Think about all of the misery people went through in the last 15 years waiting for windows to start, reinstalling the system every couple of months, suffering blue screens and system failures and the universal “why oh why did I have to install that piece of crap utility just when everything was stable” hymn. This must be the single most important benefit to be derived from Web 2.0 and yet I’ve never read or heard anyone comment about it; so I’m naming reduction of system clutter as the forgotten advantage of Web 2.0 and declaring it a general blessing to mankind.

פוסט זה פורסם בתאריך 23 בFebruary, 2007 בשעה 2:16 pm בנושאים Web 2.0. ניתן לעקוב אחרי התגובות בעזרת RSS תגובות. לא ניתן להגיב לפוסט.