Song Of The Day: She Blinded Me With Science - Artist: Thomas Dolby
A while back I was editing this blog and discovered how annoying it was to update it with things like a “song, photo, video, or quote” of the day! I’ve been meaning to fix that with some nifty AJAX/XML wizardry on a personal level, but this type of problem is kind-of at the heart of the evolving Web at a macro level. The desire and drive for folks to “feel” connected and to be “expressive” has fueled a lot of the Web’s transformation of late. People want to connect and express daily, thus my moniker of “du jour programming.” Perhaps the phrase should be “du peuple” for “of the people” programming, but that doesn’t roll as well for me :). Regardless, those entities that are solving the most complicated issues prohibiting or inhibiting customer expressiveness and connectedness are moving forward at an accelerated pace.
As examples, if you’re reading this blog, then you likely already know about how Myspace.com is now the #1 visited website (hit-wise). Furthermore, Business 2.0 named “you” as the #1 person who mattered on the future of business (and the Web) out of names like “Brin, Page, and Jobs.” The more services that do “du jour” for “you,” I have a feeling, those will be the ones that survive.