Twitter, Ruby on Rails redux.
Perhaps one more issue? Security.
There is an accelerating trend to frameworks and other CMS systems
for user generated content (wikis, Zope, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, etc).
Applications with a database backend (e.g. phpBB) can be installed by
Fantastico (cPanel) in seconds and Mediawiki also has a simple web
interface for installation.
I saw the light in 2004 when Jimbo visited the BBC and gave a public
talk in London):-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales/BBC_talk_slides
Can I add "Wikipedia is not a place for cricket statistics" ?
Each framework presents security issues. Mediawiki is now robust,
and if you take care, bogus advertising links and other bad stuff can
be avoided.
Socialtext? Yup, that too. I found a very dirty set of pages, clogged
with links to mortgages and various medications. It had not been
spotted by the admins, and I was accused of generating the bad stuff
in question myself, since nobody could see the links (they were
hidden in the user generated tags).
I also tried to clean up an installation of phpBB (bulletin board)
recently but in the end gave up since there were more bogus users
than bona fide users.
Scaffold anyone?
Gordo
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