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Web 1.0: Global reach to content publishing.
Web 2.0: Web becomes a two-way publishing avenue: readers contribute content and play central role.
Web 3.0: Let's try make sense of the enormous content published. Smart aggregation becomes key.

It looks like the reality in which content aggregation plays equally important role, compared to publishing, is arriving quietly but steadily:

Image courtesy of Amazon Web Services Blog

P.S. Thanks to Doug for pointing to the blog post.

Some extremely exciting news in the world of Agile and Dynamic languages:

• Passenger (mod_rails) released and the popular, mass-hosting provider DreamHost is now offering mod_rails hosting.
• A legendary, rock-solid MediaTemple hosting is now offering Django GridContainers for scalable deployments.

The way I am cut-out, I get in physical pain if I don't have a root access to a server. Considering this, I would much rather get a VPS or (for massive, scalable solution) a combination of Amazon EC2 and RightScale management console, but for industry at large, the availability of mainstream RoR and Django hosting solutions is a big deal... huge deal. And we welcome it wholeheartedly.

These are very exciting times to be in the software business, indeed.

MediaTemple is a remarkable virtual-dedicated and dedicated hosting provider for numerous reasons. It is well-known for legendary reliability, quality of service and the level of expertise of the support staff. MediaTemple solutions like grid-deployed MySQL hosting are at the very frontier of industry innovation.

Recently, though, MediaTemple pleasantly surprised its clientele (including yours truly) with an iPhone-friendly control-panel. First in the industry, as far as we know. This sweet thing is definitely worth checking out: http://www.mediatemple.net/iphone/

You can bet that when a company is great, it's great in more than one way. Our deepest respects go to you, MediaTemple!