I just commented on this article on this site. Since this article is really relevant to my blog I wouldn’t not want you to miss it. I’ll just post my comment here as well, but be sure to read the article and other comments if they come. So here’s my comment:
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You might think that title is pretty strange. It’s a new concept as far as I can tell. But it’s true. Let me elaborate a bit…

Getting a website used to be pretty hard. Back in the nineties you would have one or two megabytes of storage on some spooky ftp-server where you could – if you were the tech-savvy type – upload some HTML files and call that a website. Ad some animated gifs and you’re pretty hot. That was then… Now the story is quite different. If you want a website, getting one is simple, low-tech and low-effort (if you want it to be). This also means that the number of websites has grown dramatically. The amount of content has risen to an extend that it’s getting very hard to find what you’re looking for, especially since search engines do not necessarily work any differently than they did in the nineties. A one-keyword search will most probably get you nowhere at all…
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Almost all users of web2.0 services will have noticed that it is possible to link different services together, to get data from one service into another, to integrate services. Examples are numberous and I’ll name just a few:

• Twittering my location from Plazes.com
• Importing my contacts into LinkedIN from my Hotmail account
• Getting my tweets into my Dipity timeline
• Having my lifestream info from many services on spock
• Running my familytree application inside facebook
• Sending an update to multiple services at once using hellotxt or ping.fm
• Checking my todo’s from Remember the Milk in my Google Calendar

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