Second… Web 2.0. Hmm. I’ve been doing some AJAX programming recently and it’s very interesting stuff. Real potential. But it also has real potential for being screwed up. Unless there are some serious standards for data storage and transfer, people are going to end up having their data locked up in weird formats.

Interestingly, I spent a weekend camping with a friend of mine who works at Google and there were several other googlers present. Apparently Google is pretty frustrated trying to achieve the possibilities of the Web 2.0 because of poor web browsers. See, most browsers are designed to be refreshed every couple of minutes, so things like memory leaks aren’t a problem. But, with an AJAX app, you never refresh… so the memory leaks just build up. Even on Firefox, you leave gmail open long enough and it will bring the whole system to a grinding halt.

Third… I like icons and desktop integration, dammit! Maybe we wouldn’t be going after this new web thing if people were using desktops that actually made people’s lives easier, as opposed to that awful Windows desktop.

Yuk.