At work today, I gave a 40 minute presentation on Ajax, ASP.NET "Atlas," and what we can do to prepare ourselves for the changing world of web development. I presented the talk in MindManager, which actually has a spiffy Presentation Mode, and wanted to make it available to anyone else. So, click the link below to get my MindMap presentation on Ajax and ASP.NET "Atlas." The license on the map is the same as this blog: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5, so feel free to pass the map around, post it on your site, or link back to me. And if you have any comments or criticisms on my presentation or interpretation of the facts, feel free to post them here. I'll be the first to admit that it (the presentation) and I (Brandon Satrom) are far from perfect. Enjoy! Building AJAX Applications using ASP.NET "Atlas" MindMap (460 kb) If you're new to MindManager, you've got a couple of options for consuming this map. You can download the viewer here or you can use the browser plug-in, which can be found here. Ajax, ASP.NET "Atlas", Web2.0 Update: If you're using IE, you'll notice that your browser will tell you that this Map file is actually a .zip. It's just not true, but IE seems to be confused. If you "Save As..." and rename the extension from ".zip" to ".mmap," the Map should open just fine. Sorry for any confusion...

I'm not going to wax much on this whole issue from the "did he or didn't he copy digg.com code" pseudo-scandal (for the record, he didn't really). But I saw an O'Reilly Radar post from this morning that contained a very interesting and accurate quote:

This is a classic Web 2.0 problem: it's hard to aggregate the wisdom of the crowd without aggregating their madness as well.

I promise you that this is going to start becoming more of an issue. For all of the supposed "wisdom" that a crowd may have, there will always lurk an individual leaning toward the "Hive Mind." Let's not forget this and other cautions as the new media continues to drool over the promise of Web2.0.