Revolution. Now!
(From an IM conversation today with my brother , translated from romanian and slightly edited.)
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mapopescu: my blog stagnates at 15 readers 
mapopescu: what is interesting is that I only have to see the feedburner statistics to feel the need to write something, as if I would have a debt to my poor subscribers
georrge: you realize how it is when you have a number of 500 visitors in a week?
mapopescu: wow
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mapopescu: all this soupe of tags and feeds gives me a headache. everything is cool. but seems upside-down.
georrge: you are very right :p
mapopescu: I mean they are used in the wrong way.
georrge: I don’t think it’s the wrong way, we’re in the research perriod right now and it’s normal to move in any possible direction
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mapopescu: my opinion - that I began to write in a post but didn’t publish yet - is that we must reconsider everything. if it is to be the “web 2.0″, we must see what a “site 2.0″ is. e.g. what this all means for a auto service website? what it gives more than it already has? how a website of an “everyday normal casual people” will change?
mapopescu: or the blogs. they drive me crazy the most.
georrge: you’re not thinking right here
mapopescu: why?
georrge: why a website must be completely web 2.0?
georrge: a site or a product must be a product in the first place
georrge: the used technology only helps it to be competitive
georrge: it doesn’t define it
mapopescu: well, it shouldn’t; I was only thinking why someone would update their site from 1.0 to 2.0 ?
mapopescu: what would be interesting in the change?
georrge: 
georrge: it will be difficult
georrge: because the web world is not ready for the web 2.0 yet
mapopescu: exactly, I think the whole web 2.0 gibberish didn’t found its subject yet. everybody turns around the bone without seeing it.
georrge: take for example the search engines
mapopescu:
mapopescu: the “normal” guy shouldn’t give a damn about all these
georrge: when google will get web 2.0 items in its search and use them
georrge: then it will kick everything for at least 5 years, my take
mapopescu: the google’s problem is bigger
georrge: because it is big
georrge: now they practically investing in all sorts of ideas
georrge: and they watch what it comes out
mapopescu: google doesn’t know yet how to put ads in the feeds and how to search and how to rank all those feeds and posts, like they did with web pages
georrge: but their approach is rather coherent
mapopescu: I’m not seeing it yet. they are fighting, but I don’t know if they saw the light just yet :p
georrge: I mean they see everything as a search key
mapopescu: yes, this is right
mapopescu: but look at gada.be it’s more cool, more usefull in a way that a google search, which right now is rather noisy
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georrge: well, everybody tries to see right now what this web 2.0 exactly is
georrge: and this is why the market is rather blur
mapopescu: it can be whatever one wants it to be. but the big guns will be new ideas, stuff impossible to do on the web 1.0, which is more natural for the everyday people than the web 1.0 style.
georrge: yap
mapopescu: a recent idea I read somewhere: “fuck the domains vive les
subdomains ”
georrge: =))
mapopescu: why we should all get a 0 level root node. if I have a couple of
mapopescu.*whatever*.com it should be enough
georrge: the address is not that important
mapopescu: exactly
georrge: only the content matters
mapopescu: it would be cool to see the domain registration numbers for the last 2-3 years. if they went down or up.
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mapopescu: after all the madness, in the end we’ll all have a server for each connected device. web server, content server. and then we will use public services with data coming from the private server.
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mapopescu: http://erikbenson.typepad.com/mu/2005/02/using_bloglines.html
mapopescu: this link, you must see the result. is rather aseptic and lame 
but it is cool that from a couple of sites you can assembly a single page
mapopescu: probably the guy doesn’t yet clearly see what and how to assemble and he leaves it as a list for the time being
mapopescu: this is the result: http://hello.erikbenson.com/
mapopescu: check the result, the guy takes what himself has put on a couple of sites, passes them as feeds through Bloglines and gets them on his own PC using the Bloglines’ API, where he presents the whole thing as a blog
mapopescu: this is what I was talking about
mapopescu: I will probably do something like this for me too
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mapopescu: - I don’t know why everybody is so incoherent about this web 2.0 thing. In fact we should all return to the roots. We must free the content. We must put a wire to see whee it came from. And then we should let the show begin
mapopescu: - Revolution. Now!
