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LazyWeb ideas have a home

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Joe HughesPerson was signed in when posted
01-05-2003
03:41 PM ET (US)
And let's not forget ShouldExist, which has been around for quite some time. I find it ironic that the LazyWeb site itself has already been implemented somewhere else on the web.
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BInaryApePerson was signed in when posted
01-04-2003
04:44 PM ET (US)
Here's an example:

I regularly check, verify and update the expiry dates of about 200 domain names, comparing local documentation with Whois data. It can be tricky, and time consuming - many Whois databases use nonstandard formats which make automated parsing difficult. I've been meaning to write something clever to handle this, as the current Perl modules don't cope very well.

Last week, just as I decide to finally try writing something, a new module which does exactly what I want appears on cpan.org.

On its own, that's just a coincidence, but it frequently happens to lots of people. If it happens enough, it starts to look more like a new type of economic process.
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BInaryApePerson was signed in when posted
01-04-2003
04:27 PM ET (US)
The lazyweb.org site & RSS feed is about tracking and using the lazyweb idea, but it isn't the "lazyweb" idea itself.

If you have an idea for something, the nature of the Internet and Internet communities means that other people will be having a very similar idea at about the same time. Using the open source cliche: other people will have the same itch, and will probably start to scratch before you. If you start your big, "unique" project, the chances are that someone else will launch "your" idea before you.

So, if you have six good ideas and only have time to work on one of them, don't worry - the lazyweb will produce the other five for you. You don't have to tell *anyone*, it will probably just happen.

The lazyweb site just speeds this up a bit, and lets you tell people "Hey, I thought of that months ago!" as usual, but this time with proof.
Edited 01-04-2003 04:27 PM
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cypherpunksPerson was signed in when posted
01-04-2003
02:36 PM ET (US)
*cough* sourceforge *cough*

This is basically what sourceforge.net is right now. Lots of project leaders with good ideas, and noone doing anything about them. Of course that isn't by design, it's just how it happened to turn out.
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