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Flickr - that was the future of photo storage, sharing, discovery. What was the bookmarks social tool called from 00’s? I loved it and it fell off the earth. You could save your bookmarks, “publish” them to the community, share etc.. What ever happened to those build your own homepage apps like startpage (I think)? I always thought those would take off
del.icio.us! Funnily, also killed by yahoo like flickr
Yahoo pipes. It was so great at creating rss feeds and custom workflows. There are replacements now like Zapier and n8n but loved that. Also google reader which is mentioned multiple times already.
I can recommend Apache Camel ( https://camel.apache.org ) for similar data integration pipelines and even agentic workflows. There are even visual editors for Camel today, which IMHO make it extremely user friendly to build any kind of pipeline quickly. Apache Karavan: https://karavan.space/ Kaoto (Red Hat): https://kaoto.io Both are end 2 end usable within vscode.
Google Wave. Edit: you asked why. I first saw it at SELF where Chris DiBona showed it to me and a close friend. It was awesome. Real time translation, integration of various types of messaging, tons of cool capabilities, and it was fully open source. What made it out of Google was a stripped down version of what I was shown, the market rejected it, and it was a sad day. Now, I am left with JIRA, Slack, and email. It…
https://github.com/shano/Wave-ServerAdmin
It's been 16 years. I should probably archive this..
Yahoo pipes. It was so great at creating rss feeds and custom workflows. There are replacements now like Zapier and n8n but loved that. Also google reader which is mentioned multiple times already.
I never used it, but Yahoo pipes sounds like it was awesome whenever I hear people talk about it. I don't know if it was Yahoo Pipes that died, or a mainstream internet based on open protocols and standards.
Positron - Firefox version of Electron. "Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko" https://github.com/mozilla/positron This would have changed so much. Desktop apps powered by the engine of Firefox not Chrome. Why? Not enough company buy in, not enough devs worked on it. Maybe developed before a major Firefox re-write?
With more of Firefox's rendering migrating to Rust, there's got to be a market for a memory safe alternative to Electron now.
- Photon, the graphical interface for QNX. Oriented more towards real time (widgets included gauges) but good enough to support two different web browsers. No delays. This was a real time operating system. - MacOS 8. Not the Linux thing, but Copeland. This was a modernized version of the original MacOS, continuing the tradition of no command line. Not having a command line forces everyone to get their act together ab…
> - XHTML. Have you ever read the parsing rules for HTML 5, where the semantics for bad HTML were formalized? Browsers should just punt at the first error, display an error message, and render the rest of the page in Times Roman. Would it kill people to have to close their tags properly? Amen. Postel’s Law was wrong: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9413 We stop at the first sign of trouble for almost every o…
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I have an optane drive with the kernel on it, instant boot!
How does that work? It loads kernel from drive to ram? Isn't windows fast boot something like that (only slower, depending on ssd)? It semi-hibernates, stores kernel part of memory on disk for faster startup.
Optane was nearly as fast as RAM, but also persistent like a storage device. So you do a suspend to RAM, without the requirement to keep it powered like a RAM.
Memex, it was a solution to the biggest problem facing the scientific community just after WW2 and it still hasn't been implemented, 80 years later!