The Internet always moves on... but I don't get the impression that the Internet is going to abandon Facebook any time soon. In very large part because of their UX, and the fact that they actually do adapt it to fit changing contextual conditions.
FB engineering clearly has a serious clue. Have you even heard whispers of a facebook outage? I haven't, and it would be all over the media if there was one. Twitter, on the other hand...
That's actually the same reason I'm here rather than on LJ - DW development actually has a serious clue and is set up to retain that clue, LJ development clearly doesn't any more, and that's my professional opinion as a software engineer/architect.
Don't get me wrong - Facebook certainly have some dodgy practices going on in the sense that they're an ad supported company, so it's in their interests to keep data flowing the advertisers way. That's a business model disagreement, and a lot of people may not like it, but ultimately, they're conducting a legal business (now that they've sorted out some privacy controls to fit a variety of privacy legislation), using pretty much exactly the same business model as Google.
The question for DW is not "should DW be helping other companies". That's got nothing to do with it.
The questions should be "would providing this functionality be in the interests of DW and its membership?" and "is the cost of creating and maintaining the functionality too high?"
For this poll, I think the answer is "yes, a little bit" and "at the moment it's too high, but maybe not if the crossposter is refactored a lot to support multiple different APIs".
With regards to a hypothetical FB Connect/Twitter OAUTH poll, I think the answer is "maybe" (primarily because OpenID actually does suck to use, I know DW is trying to improve it, yes), and the implementation work isn't immense.
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FB engineering clearly has a serious clue. Have you even heard whispers of a facebook outage? I haven't, and it would be all over the media if there was one. Twitter, on the other hand...
That's actually the same reason I'm here rather than on LJ - DW development actually has a serious clue and is set up to retain that clue, LJ development clearly doesn't any more, and that's my professional opinion as a software engineer/architect.
Don't get me wrong - Facebook certainly have some dodgy practices going on in the sense that they're an ad supported company, so it's in their interests to keep data flowing the advertisers way. That's a business model disagreement, and a lot of people may not like it, but ultimately, they're conducting a legal business (now that they've sorted out some privacy controls to fit a variety of privacy legislation), using pretty much exactly the same business model as Google.
The question for DW is not "should DW be helping other companies". That's got nothing to do with it.
The questions should be "would providing this functionality be in the interests of DW and its membership?" and "is the cost of creating and maintaining the functionality too high?"
For this poll, I think the answer is "yes, a little bit" and "at the moment it's too high, but maybe not if the crossposter is refactored a lot to support multiple different APIs".
With regards to a hypothetical FB Connect/Twitter OAUTH poll, I think the answer is "maybe" (primarily because OpenID actually does suck to use, I know DW is trying to improve it, yes), and the implementation work isn't immense.