I still have lots of questions about implementation that no one has even hinted at so far...
For instance, how will security issues be handled? Will developers be allowed to store user data? How will JavaScript and iframes be restricted? (I'm getting so annoyed at recent characterizations of FBML... there are good reasons for it, people.)
Right along with these questions are issues of user privacy. How much data will developers be able to access? How well will applications communicate data access and storage to end users?
Then there are simple issues of usability. How easy will all of this be for an end user? Will average users take the time to learn the system? How will user data be synchronized across hosts? Will it all even make sense to end users?
I'm not saying these questions can't be answered or that Google et al. hasn't addressed them (I certainly hope they've thought about them). I'm just saying that they're all issues I've heard nobody address so far, so until I actually see the implementation in action, I'm maintaining skepticism.
The fact that pre-release discussion keeps talking about full HTML/JavaScript vs. FBML alone makes me really wonder about the implementation in practice.
Johan Sandstrom
· 1 year ago
Very interesting. My small contribution to the heap of needles in the hay stack is minor. WhiteRockReporter.com [ I define as a 'news and electronic magazine with a local character but still 'international'. I am sure of only one thing. It's not a directory. How to structure my future business and how to monetize to get economy in what I am accomplishing in blogs , forums, audiotorials and future videotorials...is a tough bite to analyse and come to terms with. I think attitude will take care of OpenSocial and Facebook and MySpace will sooner or later become bricks in the collosal puzzle and construction of an ivory tower under construction on behalf of Google? Of all the millions on the internet. How many are actually 'making money and recovering their individual investment [time mostly]? Internet is like a beehive and I see only millions of 'workers' [bees] perhaps now becoming fodder for the 'queen bee' [Mrs. Google is getting fatter and fatter and is already a political factor and 'media player' not to be discarded but rather joined so as not to be 'left out in the rain' in this wave and onslaught of components in the Internet Maze. Cordially yours Johan Sandstrom, BComm. BC Canada
Johan Sandstrom
· 1 year ago
Please keep me posted. Thanks. Brilliant views and writing/ Johan "You cannot change the winds but you can adjust your sails"
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For instance, how will security issues be handled? Will developers be allowed to store user data? How will JavaScript and iframes be restricted? (I'm getting so annoyed at recent characterizations of FBML... there are good reasons for it, people.)
Right along with these questions are issues of user privacy. How much data will developers be able to access? How well will applications communicate data access and storage to end users?
Then there are simple issues of usability. How easy will all of this be for an end user? Will average users take the time to learn the system? How will user data be synchronized across hosts? Will it all even make sense to end users?
I'm not saying these questions can't be answered or that Google et al. hasn't addressed them (I certainly hope they've thought about them). I'm just saying that they're all issues I've heard nobody address so far, so until I actually see the implementation in action, I'm maintaining skepticism.
The fact that pre-release discussion keeps talking about full HTML/JavaScript vs. FBML alone makes me really wonder about the implementation in practice.
I think attitude will take care of OpenSocial and Facebook and MySpace will sooner or later become bricks in the collosal puzzle and construction of an ivory tower under construction on behalf of Google?
Of all the millions on the internet. How many are actually 'making money and recovering their individual investment [time mostly]? Internet is like a beehive and I see only millions of 'workers' [bees] perhaps now becoming fodder for the 'queen bee' [Mrs. Google is getting fatter and fatter and is already a political factor and 'media player' not to be discarded but rather joined so as not to be 'left out in the rain' in this wave and onslaught of components in the Internet Maze.
Cordially yours
Johan Sandstrom, BComm. BC Canada
Johan
"You cannot change the winds but you can adjust your sails"