Over the weekend I had a couple of ColdFusion programming techniques I wanted to test out for a side-project I am working on. I figured that rather than just play around with them on my local machine I’d build a simple little site that utilized both of them. The result is the Single Serving Site Generator www.singleserve.me

What’s a single serving site you ask? Ryan Greenberg’s paper on single serving sites (which itself is enveloped in a single serving site) states:

“There is, however, a growing and unusual phenomenon where site authors pursue a different approach. Many people have created sites that span merely a single page and do one thing—or nothing. These sites, which writer Jason Kottke termed “single serving sites” in February 2008¹, capture visitors’ attention for a fraction of a minute, a tacit acknowledgement of the economy of attention in which they operate.”

You can read Ryan’s full paper here: http://isthisyourpaperonsingleservingsites.com

One of my favorite single serving sites came out as the Large Hadron Collider was about to be activated. Here it is:

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

Seem pointless? Yeah - that’s the point.

So - you want to generate your own single serving site, but you are too lazy or cheap to buy a domain name, set up hosting, etc. etc? Up steps www.singleserve.me to save the day. Just enter the question you’d like to ask (which will be displayed in the web address) and the answer, fill out the fun little reCaptcha (which is one of the ColdFusion tests I was working on) and wala! You have your very own single serving site.

Go ahead - waste a minute creating one and then send the link to your friends to waste a few seconds of theirs. It’s kinda fun.

www.singleserve.me