Web 2.0.11562 beta

When it comes to my websites, the greater control I have the better. For third-party functionality like analytics or repos I need a high degree of control in order to NOT host the service myself. Same goes for serving ads.

I’ve been in a long, slow process of converting my sites to use Open-x software. It’s a resource hog, has had a few security issues, and the UI is anything but intuitive. However it does provide all the capabilities I want, and some I haven’t bothered to figure out. Like I said, not intuitive.

So I recently took a dozen Japanese language sites and set them up to use a competing hosted service called BittAds. As with most third-party replacements for your server software, they’ve pared down the feature set. The Ui is decent, and so far reliability is great. I’ll be sure to report back after some time has passed and I can fairly assess the results.

Somebody willing to fight back http://NoDaddy.com – gotta like this guy’s spunk, even if he runs up some serious legal bills.

In case you haven’t noticed I’ve focused this blog increasingly on the domain name industry and related topics. Yes I’m in the business, and yes I think there’s value that can be realized by topic-oriented blogs. So from now on I’ll try to keep my non-domain name ramblings off this site. My goal then is going to be providing opinion, and if lucky a little insight.

Did you know you could drag Firefox tabs to re-order them? You could have found this or pretty much any buzz on the web at popurls.com

Bill Gates not only knows what microformats are but says we need them? Maybe he just likes things that start with “micro”?

There’s Jeremy Keith’s presentation on, what else?, unobtrusive DOM scripting, and finally this great list of AJAX tutorials.

An interesting glimpse into the heads of the latest crop of web 2.0 startups at “Under the Radar” including the office-like apps that are being snapped up before they even get to see their success. The cool social software apps are there, and basically anyone with a new app looking for venture capital or outright purchase by one of the big guys.

Elsewhere, check out Moveable Type’s venture into the Chinese market, as reported on Niall Kennedy’s blog.

I switched to a new server and had some downtime as result. The lone subscriber surely dropped this blog, leaving me as the only reader. As soon as I get some free time there’s several more little posts I’d like to make. Stay tuned.

Welcome to WordPress. This was my greeting from my third, and hopefully last blog software. I’m just so picky. I want to have my cake and eat it too. I am always amazed by, but never satisfied with software. Maybe this is why I am so fickle, and cannot seem to stick to a blog software.

I want full control, but I want upgrading to be super-easy. I want to host my own, but have an easy install and easy config. I want a blog to use PHP and MySQL, as if I wrote it. I may never edit much code but I want the option anyway. I want ultra easy publishing, but I want to be able to insert html, make up my own css style or easily use others.

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