Re:There’s a simple alternative to the current web
by can09 on Saturday August 23, 2014 @03:45PM
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What he seems to be getting at is a much larger, more revolutionary approach to not just "the web", but "the internet" as we know it:
Re:There’s a simple alternative to the current web
by MrBuddyCasino on Saturday August 23, 2014 @05:54PM
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Thats a very academic and static view of content - I don't see how that would work in todays hyper-dynamic environment, where the Ads that are displayed on a site are priced by millisecond real-time auctions before they are delivered to the user, and websites are single-page apps with REST APIs in the background. How would that work?
Re:There’s a simple alternative to the current web
by tonyg on Saturday August 23, 2014 @06:29PM
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By transclusion. You'd cache the big, reusable chunks of content, and serve up a fresh transient little document that transcluded both the larger content chunks and the dynamically-included advertisements.
What a weird dig. It's neither expected, nor established that he can't see a solution. I'm not as smart as Andreessen and I could come up with half a dozen solutions.
Author's favourite is fine but far, far from obvious. How viable is it to run your own federated wiki anyway? Are there packages for popular systems? Are there plugins for major browsers? Is there any federation actually happening? I skimmed the resources[1] and don't know. Does anyone here run one? That would be a solution, this seems more like an idea.
And it's not like no one's doing anything. There are services like Pocket or Readability to store an article until you want to read it, Evernotes, Google Keeps... Our very own 'idlewords will archive the contents of your bookmarks for a fee[2]. Finally, there's archive.org.
[1] https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki#ho...
[2] https://pinboard.in/tour/#archive