This talk is very relevant too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA
Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web
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#12Wow, the giant flashing ad on the left of that article was so distracting I was unable to read the text. I eventually opened up the web inspector and just deleted the damn thing from the DOM.
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#13The internet is decentralized, the web has never been. HTTP protocol doesn't support it. But it's time to do that. What we need is the possibility of peer-to-peer connections between browsers.
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#14Wow, the giant flashing ad on the left of that article was so distracting I was unable to read the text. I eventually opened up the web inspector and just deleted the damn thing from the DOM.
Do you not care to use (or perhaps not have the capacity to use) an adblocker?
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#16Given the support Google has from the tech community, I don't see much movement on this in the near future.
Google has support insofar as they still offer several really good products, but after the Reader shutdown, KitKat/Nestle branding, the NSA revelations, etc, I think they're a whole lot less geek-cool.
They're not the new Microsoft quite yet, and they may never be, but Google is a long way from their peak of hacker-ish credibility.
Re: Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web
#17Wow, the giant flashing ad on the left of that article was so distracting I was unable to read the text. I eventually opened up the web inspector and just deleted the damn thing from the DOM.
"A plugin is needed to display this content." is all i see ;)
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#18Part of the difficulty of bringing this about is making p2p easy for users. I have high hopes that WebRTC data channels can start tearing these walls down by making it as simple as opening a web app.
Not only easy, but also fast and reliable enough to compete with centralized services.
Fair point. A significant reason that p2p networks like freenet tend to be slow is because of low adoption - the more users there are, the faster it can be. I submit that making p2p applications easy to use will in turn make them faster than we have seen before, because adoption rates promise to be much higher.
Re: Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web
#19Wow, the giant flashing ad on the left of that article was so distracting I was unable to read the text. I eventually opened up the web inspector and just deleted the damn thing from the DOM.
Do you not care to use (or perhaps not have the capacity to use) an adblocker?
Digital Restrictions Management will take care of that.
Not only mandatory flashing, but also tracking.
Re: Tim Berners-Lee: We need to re-decentralise the web
#20Given the support Google has from the tech community, I don't see much movement on this in the near future.
Google has support insofar as they still offer several really good products, but after the Reader shutdown, KitKat/Nestle branding, the NSA revelations, etc, I think they're a whole lot less geek-cool. They're not the new Microsoft quite yet, and they may never be, but Google is a long way from their peak of hacker-ish credibility.
Their benevolent intentions as somehow more than just a self-interested corporation are still strongly defended around here.