How slow can you go?

Okay, so I got all excited about the idea of Squidoo, with my own Lens over at Offshore Observer, but alas and alack, Squidoo has been so slow, lately, as to be entirely unusable. Pity, that.

It's a great idea, what with being able to add your own links and generate potential ad revenues, but if it's too slow to be useful, and you can't update it quickly and easily (even from the Firefox extension), we've got issues.

I'll keep trying, of course, but this is a problem. A big problem.

It causes me to seriously question the wisdom of folks who are putting together a lot of the social networking applications out there, who may or may not be database gurus, who may or may not be cognizant of all the social aspects of developing software for a large and impersonal audience.

It's not just an issue for Squidoo, it's an issue for Blogger (sometimes) and Flickr (sometimes) and other apps that are intermittently down. It just brings up all the more importance of having capable people doing the development, capable people testing it, capable people setting priorities, and capable sources funding it.

It's all connected, people, and so long as we lag in one area, we lag in all. So, get educated, get crackin' and get it right!