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John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcpub
https://dri.es/can-we-save-the-open-web
https://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/
This isn’t some standard polemic about “those stupid walled-
garden networks are bad!” I know that Facebook and Twitter
and Pinterest and LinkedIn and the rest are great sites, and
they give their users a lot of value. They’re amazing
achievements, from a pure software perspective. But they’re
based on a few assumptions that aren’t necessarily correct.
The primary fallacy that underpins many of their mistakes is
that user flexibility and control necessarily lead to a user
experience complexity that hurts growth. And the second,
more grave fallacy, is the thinking that exerting extreme
control over users is the best way to maximize the
profitability and sustainability of their networks.
. . . people are using free and convenient services, often
without a clear understanding of how and where their
data is being used. Many times, this data is shared and
exchanged between services, to the point where people
don't know what's safe anymore. It's an unfair trade-off.
I believe that consumers should have some level
of control over how their data is shared with external
sites and services; in fact, they should be able to opt into
nearly everything they share if they want to. . . . Imagine
a way to manage how our information is used across the
entire web, not just within a single platform. That sort of
power in the hands of the people could help the open
web gain an edge on the hyper-personalized, easy-to-
use "closed" web.
In order for a consumer-based, opt-in data sharing
system described above to work, the entire web needs
to unite around a series of common standards. . . .
collaboration and open standards could be a great way
to decentralize power and control on the web.
https://dri.es/video-can-we-save-the-open-web
https://anildash.com/2012/12/13/the_web_we_lost/
John Eckman • @jeckman • #wcpub