Mon 2008-09-22 13:31 (link)
Best article of the year so far. ROTFL-funny and true.
Ted Dziuba: OpenSocial, OpenID, and Google Gears: Three technologies for history's dustbin
“If there's one thing all engineers love to do, it's create APIs. It's so awesome because you can draw on a white board and feel like you put in a good day's work, despite having solved no real, actual problems. Web 2.0 engineers, in addition to their intrinsic love of APIs, have a real hard-on for anything having to do with a social network. For example, developing a Facebook application lets them call their shitty little PHP program an "application" running on a "platform," like a real, live computer programmer does. Make-believe time is so much fun, even for adults.”
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“A revolution doesn't mean that you pseudo-sexually "poke" someone from Facebook to MySpace. It doesn't mean that you can type in your password once and have access to every authenticated service out there. It certainly doesn't mean that you can make a word processor program work when you're not connected to the internet (we've had that feature for decades).
No, a revolution means that somebody gets beheaded.”