It is amazing how quickly google is expanding its influence beyond the idea of organizing the world’s information. There are plenty of community-in-a-box vendors out there plus some great open source packages. There are also standards emerging for connecting these communities together so that members of one can participate in another. Yet google appears to be releasing a free competitive offering that nominally embraces the standards but looks about as closed as could be (at least in its current incarnation). Yes, adding a bit of javascript and having everything in an iframe is a really easy way for sites with limited or no technical resources to add these features but is that a good reason for google to provide this? I am really curious to see what the terms say about data ownership. It appears that increasingly google wants to not just organize but also control the information.
It is amazing how quickly google is expanding its influence beyond the idea of organizing the world’s information. There are plenty of community-in-a-box vendors out there plus some great open source packages. There are also standards emerging for connecting these communities together so that members of one can participate in another. Yet google appears to be releasing a free competitive offering that nominally embraces the standards but looks about as closed as could be (at least in its current incarnation). Yes, adding a bit of javascript and having everything in an iframe is a really easy way for sites with limited or no technical resources to add these features but is that a good reason for google to provide this? I am really curious to see what the terms say about data ownership. It appears that increasingly google wants to not just organize but also control the information.
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Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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Competition, Redistribution and the Fork Ahead
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