Playing with web x.y

Web 2.0? Web x.y?

We're keen on categorisation aren't we? Maybe it should be "web with a bullet".

I could see the point of labelling web 2 when O'Reilly first coined it, in that he wanted to make the distinction between the "old" read only and the new "read/write" web, but even Tim Berners-Lee commented that the technologies which made it possible have been around for years.

But I've been experimenting with some aggregation thingies that make me think that the web services now becoming available (irrespective of their age in technology terms) are beginning to bite. After all, even talk shows are now discussing Twitter (so it must be good - right?)

I'm using a new Twitter client called Nambu, which seems to have its own network ecology for URL trimming (trim.it), photo storage (pic.im) and a thing that posts your messages everywhere (ping.fm)

Interesting.

Now I can get pictures of people's lunch when they tweet "I'm eating lunch now"

But I do like Trim.it's ability to track who has been looking at your shortened URLs, where from and with what browser and operating system.