Wow! We're about to launch our Facebook app as well... http://www.litepost.com http://mail.litepost.com

My guess is that, eventually, super-rich startup founders will evolve an equally advanced model for public philanthropy:

PHILANTHROPY 2.0

It's an idea whose time has come.

Usually on the web people prefer to give away their PRIVACY for free services. That privacy is in turn converted into advertising.

(This will all change very soon, when people are ready to start paying for a higher - and much more private and secure - level of premium service. You know, the Web will evolve to resemble the "regular' economy more and more, I believe..)

I understood the comment before me differently: I thought it was criticized that the content providers (people putting videos on YouTube) would expect something in return, not that YouTube & Co would expect a payment of sorts. I know that Social Webpages are not really free.

I still say Web 3.0 is when users are directly involved in the creation of web apps. That and increasingly intuitive 3d interfaces.

(Usability will also 'come into its own,' and find itself as an art and science, I believe.)

We're going more 'side-to-side' with our new product:

http://www.litepost.com

(We're hoping to introduce new ideas and more usable presentation methods, without necessarily duplicating sheer technical superiority..that can always come later.)

Anyhow, I'd say you're not nuts. Google's products all suffer from numerous defects, not the least of which is usability (in many cases).

I like his Slide Facebook apps, but some of them need usability help (as do most Facebook apps I've found) - as is being discussed in this current thread also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810

Definitely. I love Slide's My Questions app but its usability is horrid,,, Max... are you around? Love your app but I got a few ideas to make it a helluva lot more usable. Start by returning me to the question I've just answered instead of my own question page. (I'm familiar enough with my question, I don't need to return to it.) etc etc (And Slide's Facebook apps are hardly the worst offenders here. ALL of them could use a little bit of improvement IMHO.)

Web 3.0 = where _everyone_ contributes to the development of web apps, not _just_ engineers.

actually...

Edinburgh International Film Festival Day 7 Elijah Wood has very blue eyes and is trying to start up his own record label, good news for Scotland as he's a fan of local heroes Franz Ferdinand and Sons ... www.iofilm.co.uk/festivals/edinburgh/2005/diary_24082005.php -

Try 3 weeks off the Internet. It rocks.

When I make it big I am going to not use the internet for a whole year.