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I agree with the sentiment completely but doesn't Tim-Berners-Lee work for Google, the main competitor?
Serf - TCP/IP
Berners-Lee - World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP (I think)I don't know how FB can be a threat to the web if it can only exist because of the web. In a sense, friend data is just another kind of data. The same thing can be said, for example, of Gmail or hotmail. They host the email and contact information for millions of people.
If instead of facebook we had all Facebook's features gradually added to Gmail (If you sent a Googler back 5-6 years in a time machine, that might be what we'd get), I don't think it would seem odd that it should be an island.
I think that Berners-Lee and W3C get way too much credit for the web. And this is an incredibly arrogant statement by Mr. Berners-Lee. Facebook has in-fact done some serious web innovation the last years and W3C has completely dropped the ball. Facebook and Twitter have been catalyzing internet adoption and the general spread of information. Mr. Berners-Lee's obsession about content-silos shows that there is a seriou…
My only hope is that in the long run freedom of innovation will always be stronger than a walled garden like Facebook.
I thought Berners-Lee invented the web - how can he get too much credit for that? Hypertext as an idea existed before that, I think, but he did it.
I agree with the sentiment completely but doesn't Tim-Berners-Lee work for Google, the main competitor?
I don't think so (wikipedia doesn't mention it). Maybe you're thinking of Vint Cerf? He works at google. Serf - TCP/IP Berners-Lee - World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP (I think)
I think that Berners-Lee and W3C get way too much credit for the web. And this is an incredibly arrogant statement by Mr. Berners-Lee. Facebook has in-fact done some serious web innovation the last years and W3C has completely dropped the ball. Facebook and Twitter have been catalyzing internet adoption and the general spread of information. Mr. Berners-Lee's obsession about content-silos shows that there is a seriou…
Facebook dominating the web is a horror scenario.What good could you see about it? Do you want to pay a Facebook tax for every online innovation you can come up with? Do you want to be at their mercy for the survival of your business? My only hope is that in the long run freedom of innovation will always be stronger than a walled garden like Facebook. I thought Berners-Lee invented the web - how can he get too much c…
That's just the cost of entering a particular marketplace.
Think of it as rent.
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Facebook dominating the web is a horror scenario.What good could you see about it? Do you want to pay a Facebook tax for every online innovation you can come up with? Do you want to be at their mercy for the survival of your business? My only hope is that in the long run freedom of innovation will always be stronger than a walled garden like Facebook. I thought Berners-Lee invented the web - how can he get too much c…
Most business now have to pay a Google tax in one way or the other, whether it be adwords, content building, link building or paying for SEO. That's just the cost of entering a particular marketplace. Think of it as rent.
Most businesses need to pay for marketing, of course running businesses is not free.
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Facebook dominating the web is a horror scenario.What good could you see about it? Do you want to pay a Facebook tax for every online innovation you can come up with? Do you want to be at their mercy for the survival of your business? My only hope is that in the long run freedom of innovation will always be stronger than a walled garden like Facebook. I thought Berners-Lee invented the web - how can he get too much c…
Most business now have to pay a Google tax in one way or the other, whether it be adwords, content building, link building or paying for SEO. That's just the cost of entering a particular marketplace. Think of it as rent.
If Facebook adds as much value to the web as Google did with their search engine, then they more than deserve getting "rent".
So if Facebook is so bad, someone please come up with a compelling high level vision of what could replace it and why the replacement would be better? Preferably something as compelling as Sir Tim's original vision for the Web...
I've got an idea. How about if you want a presence on the web, you have this website that you control with whatever data and pictures you want on it? Coders can develop things we'll call content management systems to make it a bit easier for you to put your data on there if you don't want to do it all yourself, and since you'll control it, you can add whatever tools and automation and widgets and the like.
Companies like Disney control the movie industry by controlling the channel. You can make movies all you want, but try to get them into the theatres and rental stores. It's the same for the music industry. You can cut cd's all you want but try to get them on the radio or in the music stores. You can make a website and it can be the best website in the world, but if it doesn't appear in a search engine, it doesn't exist.
With all these big, rich companies doing business on the internet, do you think for a minute they are going to allow it to remain free?
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I've got an idea. How about if you want a presence on the web, you have this website that you control with whatever data and pictures you want on it? Coders can develop things we'll call content management systems to make it a bit easier for you to put your data on there if you don't want to do it all yourself, and since you'll control it, you can add whatever tools and automation and widgets and the like.
I'll one up you on this. Maybe one particular group of coders can build a giant CMS that also has social networking features and allows everyone to have their page on the web, and keep up with what their friends are doing, without having to own, set up and administer their own servers (a prowess which most are incapable of). The hardest thing would be getting critical mass, but if someone could do it, wow, that would…