I read over this twice and couldn't understand what is being said. Can someone explain what is being said here?
Now imagine if the pics were distributed on Facebook, Flickr and Picasa along with a few tweets that I had made and pics added via TwitPic. Do you still think Facebook.com is what you should type?
Now think of a setup where the thing to be typed is "username: pics of the part last night /twitter facebook flickr picasa"
Gone is the idea of any advertisement and revenue model based on the content's location/web page.
The reason they screw developers and consumers over is because of the way we access the internet, using a browser, an URL, and a single-site "visit" metaphor. We are programmers, though. We are free to redefine how we access the internet any time we like. We have created our own prison.
We can do better than this.
The problem isn't just programmers creating their own prison though - it's about business models. How do we create this seamless brand-free info sphere and still get paid?
But it is a different question than "how did we get here?" which is the question I answered.
If we don't know how we got here, or what the nature of the problem is, how can we ever expect to solve it?
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