Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook can fragment the Web
One of the founders of the World Wide Web believes that "the most successful social networks are beginning to change the fundamental principles" of the Internet and "create closed content repositories." Sir Tim Berners-Lee has published a great article on this topic in Scientific American.
According to him, not allowing users to export information, these social networks can lead to "the collapse of the Network into separate islands." As an example, he cited Facebook, which left 600 million of its users in a “data impasse”, a trap from which they could not get out. Here, Berners-Lee practically repeats the expressions of Google .
Recall that Tim Berners-Lee invented technologies URI, URL, HTTP, HTML and WWW. In 2004, was knighted. He is also the author of the concept of semantic web and sincerely believes that it should be "the next step in the development of the World Wide Web." This idea is actively promoted by the W3C Consortium, which he heads.
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Berners-Lee believes that fragmenting the Network is threatened not only by Facebook, but also by other social networks like LinkedIn, as well as major telecoms. But it seems that the arrows of criticism are directed primarily against Facebook in the light of the war for Google with the social graph . Obviously, in this fight, Berners-Lee's sympathies are on the side of Google.
In his article, the KBE Knight also criticizes the manufacturers of isolated mobile applications, as in Apple iTunes. According to him, “the world of iTunes is centralized and fenced by a wall. You are trapped in a single store instead of being on the open market. Despite all the wonderful features of this store, its evolution is limited by the fabrications of a single company. ”
“Other companies also create closed worlds. Disturbing, for example, the tendency of magazines to produce “applications” for smartphones instead of web applications, because in this way the material leaves the web. ”
Tim Berners-Lee also defended the principle of network neutrality.
According to him, not allowing users to export information, these social networks can lead to "the collapse of the Network into separate islands." As an example, he cited Facebook, which left 600 million of its users in a “data impasse”, a trap from which they could not get out. Here, Berners-Lee practically repeats the expressions of Google .
Recall that Tim Berners-Lee invented technologies URI, URL, HTTP, HTML and WWW. In 2004, was knighted. He is also the author of the concept of semantic web and sincerely believes that it should be "the next step in the development of the World Wide Web." This idea is actively promoted by the W3C Consortium, which he heads.
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Berners-Lee believes that fragmenting the Network is threatened not only by Facebook, but also by other social networks like LinkedIn, as well as major telecoms. But it seems that the arrows of criticism are directed primarily against Facebook in the light of the war for Google with the social graph . Obviously, in this fight, Berners-Lee's sympathies are on the side of Google.
In his article, the KBE Knight also criticizes the manufacturers of isolated mobile applications, as in Apple iTunes. According to him, “the world of iTunes is centralized and fenced by a wall. You are trapped in a single store instead of being on the open market. Despite all the wonderful features of this store, its evolution is limited by the fabrications of a single company. ”
“Other companies also create closed worlds. Disturbing, for example, the tendency of magazines to produce “applications” for smartphones instead of web applications, because in this way the material leaves the web. ”
Tim Berners-Lee also defended the principle of network neutrality.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/108687/
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