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Why Nareau is useful
Or why I think I must work on it..
- In a web service model, what happens to yur data when your ASP dies? This model provides a non-adhoc system for all ASP data.
- Brand dosent make sense
on the web unless you are already big. How can you compete on quality rather
than name? You publish the product as an object and the product and your
service can be rated on factors such as price, customer service and delivery,
all in one place. Since you may not be coming from a directory, you dont have
to pay deeply to a portal for your visibility.
Standard brand building has been a failure on the web since the web is not TV, ie push. Many internet companies overspent themselves not realizing this simple notion and remaining stuck in the old marketing. For the first time the web offers the small person to compete; this has been so far squandered as due to the centralizing powers that be there hasnt been integrated AT the user a mechanism to compete through metadata comparision and reputation.
- The browser is stuck in the dark ages and will be as long as the companies contolling then have the portal's gateway to information mentality. Presently both portal companies and browser companies treat people like eyeballs. My hope is that a system like this puts the portal and whatever else right at the user, and changes the power equation
- Users dont manage organizing files well, and dont have web wide rich metadata options for description and query. In contrast, building a system based on an object graph allows for deep description, caching, and replication seamlessly.
- Methods in an OS should be cognizant of presence and context and dont do a good job of that. In a web world, methods should not be tightly bound to objects, as the data provider may not be the data operator.
- Dynamic web sites can export their own metadata, enabling the user to use this sites services along with his other metadata directly. Furthermore this allows distributed searching and serendipitios combinations of information that might not have happened.
- Since certain parts of a web site may execute on users local or third party server itself, it alleviates bandwidth and more importantly delay problems, allowing for lighter load on web sites.
- Knowledge sharing enables people to discover their commonalities and organize into groups and applying the same process inside lear from experts and become experts themselves as their reputation increases. People can filter content relying on others.
Points (3) and (8) motivate me the most. As Dave Winer is apt to say...lets get rid of the middlemen!