The Closed Web
Antonio Vantaggiato,
Skate of the Web,
Sept 23, 2011
"The Closed Web is here," writes Antonio Vantaggiato. Not that it's irreversible, and not that people aren't trying to keep the web open. But we can see the closed web on the horizon, and it wants us. "Scoble... loves a new Social Newsreader app from the Washington Post.... I go and see the video, and read the post, and understand. It is an app that sits on Facebook. That is, you can use the WaPo app *only* within Facebook."
"This is the worst a publisher can do, and I do hope the experiment fails. Sincerely. We were so happy with the (Open) Web. In it, a dream was made true. The dream of sharing without limits, without needs of proprietary software or hardware. Faced with an abysmal crisis, newspaper publishers are choosing the only road they know: that of closure, without recognizing the potential of the open." You know, it's only a short step from the closed web to the sort of web reserved only for the "man of means" - and which, like Harvard or Yale, is a prerequisite to any expectation of having any sort of impact in life.
"This is the worst a publisher can do, and I do hope the experiment fails. Sincerely. We were so happy with the (Open) Web. In it, a dream was made true. The dream of sharing without limits, without needs of proprietary software or hardware. Faced with an abysmal crisis, newspaper publishers are choosing the only road they know: that of closure, without recognizing the potential of the open." You know, it's only a short step from the closed web to the sort of web reserved only for the "man of means" - and which, like Harvard or Yale, is a prerequisite to any expectation of having any sort of impact in life.
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