http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/ Comic book guy, tech geek, and father of two... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-209 NoSheep! » eMachineShop Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:32:03 +0000 http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/#comment-209 [...] To me this appears to be a great example of a company using long tail as their business plan in an area that was previously reserved for large companies with big clients ordering lots of parts. [...] [...] To me this appears to be a great example of a company using long tail as their business plan in an area that was previously reserved for large companies with big clients ordering lots of parts. [...]

]]> http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-187 NoSheep! » PHP Screenscraping Using Curl Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:52:04 +0000 http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/#comment-187 [...] The reason its bad is because it is extremely fragile. If a webmaster of the site you are accessing makes even a slight change, it could break your page parsing. The other reason to shy away from this is some web sites really don’t like when you do this. As a rule, if the webmaster of the site you are scraping contacts you and wants you to stop, you should, immediately. Though you should also recommend they provide the info you are scraping as a service through something like REST or SOAP. It would be very Web 2.0 of them to comply, it’s worth a shot. [...] [...] The reason its bad is because it is extremely fragile. If a webmaster of the site you are accessing makes even a slight change, it could break your page parsing. The other reason to shy away from this is some web sites really don’t like when you do this. As a rule, if the webmaster of the site you are scraping contacts you and wants you to stop, you should, immediately. Though you should also recommend they provide the info you are scraping as a service through something like REST or SOAP. It would be very Web 2.0 of them to comply, it’s worth a shot. [...]

]]> http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-182 NoSheep! » Writely Does It Right Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:01:10 +0000 http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/#comment-182 [...] I recently discovered a web based document or content editor called Writely.  Matt at Bork Web tried it out and gave me his opinions on it so I decided to take a stab at it as well. It is a Web 2.0 application that intends to replace Microsoft Word.  I consder this similar to the way Gmail completely changed what we expect out of web-based email clients.  Now I want all content editing to work just like Writely.  I’m actually writing this blog post in Writely, since they have the ability to post content directly to a blog using the standard blogging APIs.  If this works out, it will certainly replace all reliance I had on Ecto. [...] [...] I recently discovered a web based document or content editor called Writely.  Matt at Bork Web tried it out and gave me his opinions on it so I decided to take a stab at it as well. It is a Web 2.0 application that intends to replace Microsoft Word.  I consder this similar to the way Gmail completely changed what we expect out of web-based email clients.  Now I want all content editing to work just like Writely.  I’m actually writing this blog post in Writely, since they have the ability to post content directly to a blog using the standard blogging APIs.  If this works out, it will certainly replace all reliance I had on Ecto. [...]

]]> http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/comment-page-1/#comment-179 BorkWeb » Blog Archive » Writely Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:51:46 +0000 http://nosheep.net/story/web-20-and-the-long-tail/#comment-179 [...] Zach over at NoSheep! wrote an article about Web 2.0 and the Long Tail that intrigued me. That article linked to another article by Tim O’Reilly that discusses various services that are getting heavy notice on their innovations on the web. One has really caught my eye….Writely. [...] [...] Zach over at NoSheep! wrote an article about Web 2.0 and the Long Tail that intrigued me. That article linked to another article by Tim O’Reilly that discusses various services that are getting heavy notice on their innovations on the web. One has really caught my eye….Writely. [...]

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