Web 2.0? It's all very well...

...but what do you do when it breaks???

I've just come home from a hard day's labour, followed by a fun, friendly evening class, sat down with my laptop, logged on to Netvibes, to be met with...well, a message telling me how much better it's going to become! Which is no good to me right now, as I want to see what's going on in the world. All my carefully collected feeds and blogs, wikis and social networking connections are contained therein, and I can't get to them. Well, that's not strictly true, I could get at most, eventually, going through them one by one, tracking them down, logging on etc etc, but that's no good to me, that's not how I want things to present themselves to me.

It was almost a panicky moment, which is ludicrous of course, but I hope I'm not alone in that. Makes me think about backups, plan B's etc. Maybe I should use i-Google after all. I'm sure it never goes down. Their server cloud model probably means this never happens to them. I have an account there and a few bits and bobs, but somehow it's not the same. Too corporate or American or something....hard to pin down...

Maybe I should just go to bed and let Web 2.0 sort itself out by morning time!

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