Comments on: JPC - Google Web Accelerator

By: J.P.C. - Jason Clarke » Blog Archive » Inflection Point - Robert X. Delivers Again

Mon, 16 May 2005 20:30:27 +0000

[...] high-tech. He touches on Yahoo and Apple, as well as mentioning the true importance of the Google Web Accelerator. Great reading. Posted [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 13 May 2005 02:22:29 +0000

“so act accordingly.”…exactly, and acting accordingly mean speaking out when someone tries to circumvent your rights. You can’t just say well that’s he internet, its very well may be the internet but it shouldn’t have to be.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 09 May 2005 06:45:29 +0000

Fair enough. I must admit that I’m hypocritical in that I do my banking online, so I therefore trust the medium to some extent. Your points are well taken. I think to understand where I’m coming from it’s best to consider my position as one of advising caution – if you’re afraid of your content getting stolen online, you should be, because if it’s worth anything, someone will try to steal it. And technologies will constantly be popping up that may have flaws that expose otherwise private information. It’s not that I’m condoning it, so much as I’m saying we’ll never be able to prevent it, so act accordingly.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 May 2005 04:59:31 +0000

That's a cop-out. The web is a valuable tool for many things, not all of which are public. (Evidence: your insurance company, your phone company, and your government all use the web to provide their partners with confidential information about their services--and you--via secured web interfaces.) The security of these systems is not in question -- the practice of taking that secured content and posting it in a public database (a la Google) is.

Using HTML to represent content and HTTP to transfer it does not imply any sort of license or relinquishing of control. Frankly, I think it's ridiculous to suggest that placing things on the Web implies some sort of tacit agreement. I didn't agree with you on RSS, and I certainly won't agree with you when you take syndication out of the picture.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 08 May 2005 07:33:49 +0000

User beware; putting content onto the web is in effect releasing it from your control. Just as email is not secure (without encryption, I suppose), web content is not either. The easy solution to ensuring that your content remains within your control is not to put it out there.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 May 2005 03:58:34 +0000

Wow, that has serious privacy implications. Think LiveJournal-like sites, for one... or, for that matter, our customer-only discussion forum (which potentially contains confidential information about our clients and/or our software).

This isn't just another case of control-happy webmasters... this is a serious privacy concern!

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 08 May 2005 00:28:06 +0000

IMHO webmasters as a grossly over-generalized population need to take a massive chill-pill. If you put your stuff on the internet, or worse expect to make your living there, you need to realize that you don’t get to control how people consume content from the web. Content producers don’t control the desktop. Do a Google search for Greasemonkey (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/) and read what people are saying about that.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 08 May 2005 00:20:40 +0000

It’s getting a lot of bad press from the public and webmasters alike though. http://news.com.com/Google+speed+bump+draws+scorn/2100-1032_3-5698447.html?tag=nefd.top