Below is a snippet of an entry from Anil Dash‘s blog on the possibilities of using embed, object and JavaScript for serving all kinds of content — not just movies. The obvious question is ‘How much should you trust code from strangers?’ And can this be done in a safe(-ish), secure(-ish) way? Possibly related: Cross-domain [...]
[14 Mar 2008]
Anil analyzes Google’s Knol product and suggests that Google may be dancing awfully close to the ‘evil’ line. Two points to think about: Theory of mind is the awareness that others are aware, and its absence is the weakness that Google doesn’t know it has. This shortcoming exists at a deep cultural level within the [...]
[14 Dec 2007]