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I sincerely don't think any company will successfully "become the platform" in perpetuity, They'll just make obscene amounts of money while their star is shinin
by jeffool 15y ago
I sincerely don't think any company will successfully "become the platform" in perpetuity, They'll just make obscene amounts of money while their star is shining. But I do think good can come from this.
As Facebook, Google, Twitter, (the stillborn?) OpenID and others compete to be the "company that handles online identities," everyone else can just focus on what they do. They don't have to run massive databases of users, just allow a trusted third party login and let people at the good stuff.
Aside from that, I don't really care too much about it.
- icebraining 15y ago>everyone else can just focus on what they do. They don't have to run massive databases of users, just allow a trusted third party login and let people at the good stuff. Not really; you still need a users database to store everything else related to the user. You only really save on the authentication related fields, which are a very small part of it.
- jeffool 15y agoSmall insofar as data is concerned, but by far the most important. For instance you don't have to worry about hackers taking passwords from you any more. At worst they bust in and take a list of functional email addresses (assuming you email users) and site settings (which may our may not be valuable, depending on your site.) Maybe I did a shit job of explaining my concern. Or maybe I'm further off base than I think?
- icebraining 15y agoI was replying to the "massive" part. But yes, you're right, and I wish more websites would do that.
- jeffool 15y agoThen a shit job in explaining my concern it is/was!
- a3_nm 15y agoOpenID isn't the same as Facebook, Google and Twitter. It's a standard, not a company.
- jeffool 15y agoI honestly don't know about about it. I probably should've just not mentioned it, but, it seemed to serve the same function.