R.I.P.: Web 2.0 Is Dead

Every now and then, gotta' claim another Too Late for the home team. So without further ado I hereby ostentatiously and presumptuously proclaim that I am FIRST to pronounce Web 2.0 DEAD. Here's why ... it's like a morbid Kevorkian TIVO recording of Web 1.0's last gasps:
More! Better! Faster! Infinite Everything All The Time for Instant Startup Stardom! Hurry! Act Now! Web metrics are standing by to take your click as your most carefully crafted stylesheets cascade off into oblivion!

Brutal, I know. But in other news, it could be that Web 3.0 is born.



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FIRST Complete Privacy Options from ASK.COM

Well done! Congratulations! After calling for tools like this for years, ASK.COM has finally become the first to meet this undeniable requirement for Web 3.0, protecting your Individual Privacy as you Search. Ask.com to be the First Major Search Engine to Offer Complete Privacy Options.

We'll see if several logical next steps follow, and when they do, today could well be the day that we can look back to say Web 3.0 - The Identity Web was born.

Too Late for GOONgle to be first, but now they better get crackin' and become second. In all fairness to the goongies, it looks like their avarice and greed could actually create some powerfully positive side effects for Ethernet Everywhere if they break open the spectrum gridlock and pave the way for UNIVERSAL SYMMETRIC BANDWIDTH.
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Put a Handle on tabletpc Slate format


The Motion C5, the first mobile clinical assistant (MCA) that integrates technology from Intel Health, combines durable design elements with key data capture technologies to simplify workflows, increase productivity and improve overall quality of care. Designed based on input from thousands of clinicians, the C5 brings reliable, automated patient data management directly to the point of care.

Motion Computing - C5 mobile clinical assistant

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802.11N: The "N" is for Nice Design

0Kudos to Belkin for being first to toss out the 802.11B-is-for-Boring and replace with an 802.11N-is-for Nifty, iNformative, and just plain Nice product design. The display panel on these devices is something that many may soon wish they'd acted upon first. So this time it's too late to be first for DLink, Netgear, Linksys, et al, in the useful and appealing design category.

Now, if we can find an 802.11N device that will be the first to ACTUALLY WORK AS ADVERTISED, then we'll really be in business. After an entire weekend of testing the D-Link DIR-655 with the matching Xtreme N Notebook Adapter PCMCIA card, I'm saddened to report erratic connectivity.

When connected, speed performance was easily 5x greater (keeping distance from AP constant) than the Linksys WRT54GX4 "SRX 400" MIMO router that I hoped to replace; however, we just couldn't get the DIR-655 to stay reliably connected to any of the six following computers: Macbook Pro w/ OS X, IBM Thinkpad w/ XPSP2, Toshiba with XPSP2, Sony w/ Windows 2000, Lenovo w/ FreeBSD 6.2, and Acer w/ XPSP2. Chertoffesque "prophetic gut" theory? Pre-draft N may not have been sufficiently polite to neighbors; but this Wi-Fi Certified Draft N box may be TOO POLITE.

I may put just a couple more days free time into messing around with the amazingly detailed options in the 655's Admin Console; but so far, I've been unable to come close to confirming Tim Higgin's results. I'm not at all questioning Tim's excellent work -- for which I'm very grateful -- and perhaps the neighborhood network density in my location has something to do with current results; so as always, your mileage may vary.



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