Ervin Kosch

Meshly is like Digg in that you canpost recent articles with you comments.  Meshly is also like Twitter in that you can post through most IM clients.  AOL/AIM/GAIM (now called Pidgin) seems to work the best, but I have tried a Jabber client yet.  Another nice feature is that you can added your own metatag content and create your own channels.

ASP function to

<%

‘ Return an array of items that are NOT duplicated in an array
function ShowDiff(array1, array2)
dim d, item, thekeys, build_arr

‘ Build Array - a command that will be Execute
build_arr = “anArray = ARRAY(”

‘ Loop through the first array, add to output
for x = lbound(array1) to ubound(array1)
build_arr = build_arr & “array1(” & x & “), ”
next

‘ Loop through the second array, add to output
for y = lbound(array2) to ubound(array2)
build_arr = build_arr & “array2(” & y & “), ”
next

‘ Cleanup last comma
build_arr = left(build_arr, len(build_arr) - 2)
build_arr = build_arr & ” )”

‘ Excute the build statement
execute build_arr

‘ Show differences
set d = CreateObject(”Scripting.Dictionary”)
d.removeall
d.CompareMode = 0
for each item in anArray
if not d.Exists(item) then
d.Add item, item
else
d.Remove item
end if
next
thekeys = d.keys
set d = nothing
ShowDiff = thekeys
end function

%>

How true. What brought this about you may ask? Well you see I was cruising the press release circuits when I cam across this release:

Free Web Hosting Set to Explode in Popularity
www.pr9.net

Large numbers of new Internet users in third-world countries are increasing the use of free Web hosting services. From 2005 to 2010, an estimated 700 million additional people will logon to the Internet for the first time, and many of them will be hosting Websites at free Web hosting services.

http://www.freewaywebhost.com/

Its at the end of the article, theres one line that stands out to me:

Popular social networking sites are not adequately meeting the needs of new Internet users, and free hosting offers another option for personal expression.

This got me to thinking. I rarely use MySpace. Its slow and has a ton of spam on it. MSN’s blogging system is slow and has limited templates. The same can said for Google’s page builder as well. They great for talking to communities of like minded individuals; but, if I want make a statement I’m not generally going to use their services.

I don’t want to be limited by their systems styles and abilities. I want a lot more freedom then a fancy CMS can provide with a few templates can provide. If I need an application like WGTE’s Build Your Own Website I’ll buy in to it. But anything else I want full control and flexibility.