Shawn Carnell (one of the folks behind AOL’s coolio modules stuff (see Iamalpha) reports that they met with the Ajaxian dudes.

This meeting bore fruit in a positive review of the usage of Dojo in AOL’s modules.

What I’d love ot hear is their reaction to a core issue that has come up - while developing these modules:

1.  So I’m a module developer, I write some php-thingie that does something - based upon my server and I post it to the AOL modules directory.

2.  OH MY GOD - I get Slashdotted, or Digged or whatever the current term for ‘incredible amount of response and clicks’ - that bombards my poor little server!  Ouch!

3.  So now what happens?

a.  Success ruins the golden goose and I take down my module?

b. I wait for traffic to subside and breath a sigh of relief?

c. I come up with some way to ‘monetize’ these clicks - and use that money to buy more hardware and pay for bandwidth?

d.  Any other recourse?

 4. Believe it or AOL is hoping that folks will do all their storage via local Javascript - so that none of the traffic goes back to your server.  But that ultimately limits the capability and functionality of your module.  I’ve pondered this situation for a while and still don’t have a nice answer - that feels good.

What to do?  JSON (I don’t think that changes anything.)

Any other suitable sceanrio any of you can think of?

It’s important - as this AOL module ‘channel’ can be a HUGE distribtuion channel to 10’s of millions of willing end-users (notice BTW that MySpace has nothing like this - yet.)

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