Comments on: From Web page to Web platform

Like software makers, Web sites are encouraging coders to build upon their data, giving users more-tailored services.

Business Models for Mashups are the Big Issue

Mashups are interesting hacking experiments for now. But site mashing crushes the first generation advertising business models (which is why GOOG and YHOO limit access). See http://earlystagevc.typepad.com for a more detailed discussion.

[mess485]

nice

I like your iddeas. I think that is usefull for me but not only.
keep working.
nice - http://www.boli-medicina.com

[OneWithTech]

A fine line between fair use and copy infringement

As a web developer I can tell you that web services like Google and Ebay are awesome, adding a little desktop or web software makes them better. That's great and all...

But, the key here is that these companies offer API's (Application Program Interfaces). Essentially tools and code to help a developer extract the data from the site that offers the API. This is fine as far as fair use go's, the companies are offering tools to take advantage of there data.

In the case of Grease Monkey , you are altering the site in way's that the site creators didn't intend for to happen.

Here in lies the fine line, user's have the ability to change a site that wasn't intended to be changed, therefore giving the user tools that essentially are baseless to use.

Now think though, Grease Monkey in still in Beta with a security issue. So now competitors can take advantage of grease monkey's code to essentially create advertisements for there own benefit, maybe GreaseMonkey already has EXTRA code to benefit them and advertisers in the way I just described.

Something to think about for those that check there bank accounts and credit card accounts online.

Justin

This

Yup

Not much of a surprise... nearly weeks after google announce their
maps feature, someone was already mashing it together with
craigslist to find apartments available an the map.


www.tigercompatible.com

[Len Bullard]

Who Is Litigable?

Google maps are notoriously inaccurate. When a mashup sends the neighbors to hunt down a sex offender at the wrong address, who gets sued?

If I click on a subscription feed (the one-click advantage) and it downloads a virus, who gets sued?

Web 2.0 is the glaze over the crack.

[mess485]

Not much??

Not much of a surprise... nearly weeks after google announce their
maps feature, someone was already mashing it together with
craigslist to find apartments available an the map.??
http://www.boli-medicina.com/boli/index.php

[Mendz]

It's great to see web services working...

The direction with web services is for applications to be created using them. You put multiple web services together and you can have a great application. The web, therefore, becomes a platform which, in the future, should enable really thin client devices to do great things despite their small size.

Who needs applications installed locally on the device if the best ones are available online? Who needs big storage on a device when the biggest storage services are available online? You see, the only thing limiting us now is the communication and security infrastructure. But it is easy to imagine we are heading towards that direction...

[George Cole]

big storage on a device

http://www.analogstereo.com/citroen_c1_owners_manual.htm

RSS

I still feel using RSS feeds to provide additional third party data and content is a lot more hassle that parsing XML WSDL files and the like to interact with other sites.

Marc
www.PropertyTalk.com

[mess485]

XML WSDL

XML WSDL files and the like to interact with other sites.
Ncie -
http://www.boli-medicina.com/alimentatie-dieta/index.php
http://www.boli-medicina.com/alimentele/index.php

[mess481]

Inviting

Inviting third-party developers to build on top of a company Web site. Like: http://www.referatele.com

Davisda

[preferatele12]

Nice idea

Nice idea. Great article.
http://www.preferatele.com/
http://www.preferatele.com/index-referate-noi.php