Smarter Sheep

Apple has magically done it again. I have been looking at moving much of our website structure off of the .net platform and on to php or similar and nearly forgot to look into Rails. I toyed with Rails a couple of years ago but didn’t have any projects that werent already on another platform at the time but it looked pretty good even then. After working with asp.net so long, I admit that php looked a bit clumsy to me but I have been forging ahead with trying different frameworks. This week I began looking at Ruby on Rails again and I must say that I’m impressed and I truly love the OOP nature of it. CakePHP has done a pretty good job of mimicking ROR with the scaffolding so it’s not out of the running, but I really like what I am finding with Rails so far as I work through some of the samples.

Today’s Web 2.0 number is 2, two, dos.. the number 2 is a bright olive green color. The olive green I’m referring to is not a military sort of green, although it could easily go that way if 2 got angry and became militant. I picture 2 as more of a bright glassy olive tone. Your wondering why number 2 is in the green slot? It’s simple, really… number 2 is not number 1. We all know that number 1 is a forever gloating “hey I’m up here on top and your all not..look at me” kind of a color. Therefore, number 2 always feels like less of a number. Two works hard to stay well spirited and tries to glow as best he can… hence the Web 2.0 glassy, shiny-ness, but because he always feels a deep sense of being in second place, the envy show through…just a little… leaving him green.

In my new Web 2.0 series I would like to discuss the close relation between numbers and colors. I know there will be offenses made. So I would like to apologize in advance to those I will offend with my color choices. I would also like to alleviate any concern for the hexadecimal system by stating ahead of time that no colors were hurt during any of my testing.

Today I would like to start with the number 5, Five, cinco… 5 is a blue color. Not blue in the sense of sad, depressed or lonely… that would be more of a navy. I like to think of 5 as more of a blue in terms of corporate colors. Think blue as in Microsoft, IBM and blue ribbons on apple pies at the county fair. Blue as in, “wow her eyes sure light up when I come through the door”.

If you don’t agree with my assessment of the number 5, leave a comment and we can discuss it.

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I was in Borders Books & Music this week and picked up a book that caught my attention. The book is titled Web 2.0 Heroes and it’s a series of interesting interviews with some top players in the .com world. I’m on chapter three and so far it’s been pretty good. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Amazon has plenty of copies if you want to read along.

seomoz.org has announced their Web 2.0 awards. They ranked over 200 web 2.0 sites in 41 different categories. Check it out and let me know your thoughts. I haven’t had a chance yet to troll through the list and see if any of my favorites have made it.