While everybody is still crazy about AJAX - how will its future look like? Using it is currently a major PITA, and you'll most likely have the user download a 200k Javascript file just to make it useable for you as a programming language. JavaScript lacks so much that current programming languages offer out of the box.

This includes especially some comprehensive standard library (Java, C# and Python are all great here), a compact syntax for common data structures (e.g. set operations in Python or stream operations in C++ with <<) and of course: interfaces!

Security restrictions of the browsers - intentional security restrictions to avoid cross site scripting attacks - make interfacing between different javascript applications rather cumbersome, if at all possible. And the only way to have "private" functions in JavaScript is also more of a hack (abusing closures) than a native feature of the language.

What I'd like to see in the next generation of JavaScript - and browsers should start implementing that rather soon, so we'll be able to use it in some 5 years - are proper interfaces especially for cross-site applications, information hiding, an extensive standard libary, a short syntax for XML processing and common data structures and pretty much all that every javascript toolkit reimplements again and again. Oh, and the result shouldn't be Java yet, but still an embedded scripting language. ;-)

If you search on Google for 'youtube sex', my blog comes out as #3+#4, just behind youtube itself. Sooo funny, because I never actually wrote about Sex on YouTube. Actually I don't like YouTube (which to me still sounds like a bad translation of a german insult).

But there is this blog posting of mine, which lists the top tags according to technorati, when war tags had actually surpassed youtube and sex as tags.

Yes, it mentions "youtube, sex". Once. But no, these are not essential, no referrer uses them, no other blog posting. Why does it show up as second site after YouTube.com itself?

Oh, I'm also #3 for "youtube bush" right now, with the raw RSS feed of my blog.

What is it with Google and my blog? There must be some odd effect with Googles ranking that makes my site shoot up like crazy. And it has been like that for at least one and a half year now. Back then I blogged about IBM failing to repair my laptop. This was the first time I noticed a really absurd Google ranking of my blog, when this became a top #10 result for "IBM repair".

Guess I really should go into the SEO or webdesign business. If I weren't just more interested in research and software development...

[Update: dropped to #14 for 'youtube sex']