Social networks, comments, blogs, tag clouds, AJAX and whatnot are all too common and often overlap between sites in terms of functionality. On the surface, most of the stuff does not look innovative, except an extra widget here, maybe a performance boost there. So besides site branding through usability (via AJAX, CSS, Flash, etc.), how can one measure how good a site's technology is?
Recently, I've been doing a lot of challenging coding (for myself at least). I've worked on integrating things like Trackback, OpenID, some avante garde AJAX and whatnot as well as work. Each time I had to overcome a new stumbling block. That lead me to realize that perhaps the difficulty of implementation might be a new way of evaluating technologies.
Of course, this somewhat is subjective because what's easy to one person might fare far more troublesome or even impossible to others. However, I do consider it an interesting way of looking at Web 2.0 technologies, especially as the duplicated work continues to compete over innovation.
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