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Eran Hammer-Lahav hat einen sehr schönen Artikel über das „verschwendete“ Potential der Facebook-Entwickler veröffentlicht:

[…] In fact, the problem is just how unbelievable the Facebook team is (in a good way). The sheer strength of their talent is almost unmatched in our industry, past and present. The problem is, all that talent is building something I just don’t care about, and no one is left for anything else.
[…] There are many reasons why engineers want to work for Facebook, from the potential windfall to learning just how they are able to ship so much technology so fast. It is an engineering dreamland. But there is one great reason why they shouldn’t: because Facebook will be great without them, but the web might not.

Irgendwie spricht er mir damit aus der Seele! Technologisch gesehen ist Facebook ein Traum (Open Graph Protocol, OAuth 2, Microformats, OpenID (schon bald auch OpenID Connect), uvm.), mit dem Social Network kann ich aber leider nur wenig anfangen…

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