But, I didn't mean this to be as google bash, sorry 40hz.
No apologies needed. I didn't think you were.
And even if it
were a Google bash, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
Google is one of those perpetually frustrating organizations as far as I'm concerned. They have (or by now it's maybe more like
had) a golden opportunity to become something truly great and ennobling as far as web technology was concerned.
Unfortunately, they seem to have turned away from that vision over the years. Maybe it was inevitable that they had to do so. But it still makes me wonder what things might have been like if Google kept to the high road as much as they claim they try to.
You are showing what google services we are missing....
Ah...thank you for seeing that!
There's a big difference between an FYI - which is what I intended this to be - and a
personal endorsement. This is not an endorsement. It's just an acknowledgment (probably more to myself than anybody else) that things like Google and
cloud computing are too big to ignore - and here to stay. And to simply go about your life ignoring them accomplishes little other than to put you at a disadvantage.
The thing that motivated me to post this in the first place was an article by Michale Lankton on the
Connected Internet site.
I'm one of those people that doesn't really like the idea of doing all my important things up on the web. I could write an essay on why, but most people here are savvy enough to see the obvious risks (security, accessibility, service downtime, etc.) that there's little point in writing about what's already well understood.
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