What about OpenID, the best damned federated authentication scheme the world has ever seen, but nobody in the world can figure out how to use? If not, surely you must have heard of Google Gears. This was the Firefox plug-in that was supposed to establish Google as a first-rate operating system vendor, even before Chrome was supposed to do the exact same thing? I’m still waiting for these technologies to change the world…any day now.
Ted Dziuba on Web Technology
1 October 2008
3 August 2008
But there’s one other really important thing about the “lazy web”. It’s smarter. My friend Vanessa looked at the first response to my question on yoga in Curitiba and saw it was a google result. She said to me “I can do that and have done it. It’s not a good yoga studio. I want a good one.” An hour or so later, I got a name of a person in Brazil who would know the answer. And that’s the direct hit we wanted. Google can’t do that. People can. And do. And do so publicly. And when I get value from lazy web queries, you can bet I’ll reciprocate when I am on the receiving end of them.
A VC on Lazy Web