I subscribe to MANY email newsletters. (I receive 500-800 emails per
day, not counting my real job.)
One set of those are the NetworkWorld newsletters. And one of those is
on on Web Applications.
This is the one I received today. I include all of it, without editing.
Congratulations, Gunnar.
James S. Huggins
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From: NW on WebApps [mailto:WebApps@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 4:01 PM
To: NetworkWorldNewsletters@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Ring-around-a-Web-site
NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MARK GIBBS on
WEB APPLICATIONS
05/16/01 - Today's focus: Ring-around-a-Web-site
Dear NWFusion Focus,
In this issue:
* Introducing Web rings that bring common sites together
* Links related to Web applications
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: Ring-around-a-Web-site
By Mark Gibbs
You must have come across Web rings, you know, those Web sites that
share a common theme and point to each other.
The use of Web rings is a great way to bring together organizations
with similar and mutually supportive interests, so they can achieve a
greater presence than they would individually. I love Web rings as
they often provide a fast way to find out popular views of a topic or
market.
But while there are sites that provide the mechanisms for building
Web rings you might find that their organizational methods are not
compatible with your way of thinking. For instance, they might be
tied up with advertising, or be managed too sloppily for your tastes.
If you'd like to manage your own Web ring, check out Ringlink, a
Web-based Common Gateway Interface application that is free (GNU
General Public License) and open source.
According to the Ringlink Project, which aims to further develop
Ringlink and support its use, Ringlink offers several advantages over
similar services based on propriety software. These are:
* Independence - If you've installed Ringlink yourself, you are in
control.
* Unlimited customization possibilities for the advanced user.
* Ringlink hosts can opt between offering ad-free rings, or arrange
advertisements from which they benefit themselves.
The Ringlink Project also explains that:
* Ringlink is free.
* Ringlink is open source, which means that a community of active
users is in a position to ensure that the development of the program
does not cease.
* Ringlink is "created by ringmasters for ringmasters", which should
ensure that the program's features are selected and designed in the
interest of the ringmasters and their members.
Written in Perl, Ringlink is highly customizable and is extremely
well documented.
Let me know if you use Ringlink and please send me your thoughts on
Web rings in general.
Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist.
He writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World
(http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/gibbs.html).
Gibbs is also president of Gibbs & Co. (http://www.gibbs.com/), a
consulting organization for high-tech companies trying to get to
grips with what they sell and how to talk about it.
Gibbs can be contacted at mailto:webapps@xxxxxxxxxx
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RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS
Ringlink
http://www.Ringlink.org/
Archive of the Web Applications newsletter:
http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/web/index.html
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