Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash
http://dashes.com/anil/2009/06/the-future-of-facebook-usernames.html

It's funny because it's true.

Gods, I love it when Anil gets bitchy.

Hilarious satirical prediction about what’s going to happy when Facebook releases vanity URLs this weekend.

"And a weekend-scale implementation on a personal site usually translates roughly into a 90-day implementation cycle in a business context, which is a reasonably approachable project size."

Google Wave is an impressive set of technologies, the kind of stunningly slick application that literally makes developers stand up and cheer. I've played with the Google Wave test sandbox a bit, and while it's definitely too complex to live up to the "this will replace email!" hype that greeted its launch, it certainly has some cool features. So the big question is whether Wave will succeed as overall in becoming a popular standard for communications on the web, because Google has made an admirable investment in documenting the underlying platform and making it open enough for others to build on and extend. I think the answer is no, and the reason is because the Wave way is not compatible with the Web way.

Anil thinks Google Wave is too big a step to catch on with developers. What about with users?

The big question is whether Google Wave will succeed as overall in becoming a popular standard for communications on the web, because Google has made an admirable investment in documenting the underlying platform and making it open enough for others to build on and extend. I think the answer is no, and the reason is because the Wave way is not compatible with the Web way.

Google has made an admirable investment in documenting the underlying platform and making it open enough for others to build on and extend. I think the answer is no, and the reason is because the Wave way is not compatible with the Web way.

What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way from @anildash: http://bit.ly/2aid8Y My first impressions: http://bit.ly/31xDt [from http://twitter.com/dhinchcliffe/statuses/3196328125]