http://simonwillison.net/2010-05-18T18:21:00+00:00Simon Willison2010-05-18T18:21:00+00:002010-05-18T18:21:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/18/sharecropping/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://laughingmeme.org/2010/05/18/minimal-competence-data-access-data-ownership-and-sharecropping/"><p>With Flickr you can get out, via the API, every single piece of information you put into the system. [...] Asking people to accept anything else is sharecropping. It’s a bad deal. Flickr helped pioneer “Web 2.0″, and personal data ownership is a key piece of that vision. Just because the wider public hasn’t caught on yet to all the nuances around data access, data privacy, data ownership, and data fidelity, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be embarrassed to be failing to deliver a quality product.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/2010/05/18/minimal-competence-data-access-data-ownership-and-sharecropping/">Kellan Elliott-McCrea</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data">data</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flickr">flickr</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/kellan-elliott-mccrea">kellan-elliott-mccrea</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharecropping">sharecropping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web20">web20</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a></p>

2009-11-15T08:50:33+00:002009-11-15T08:50:33+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/15/openweb/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://joehewitt.com/post/on-middle-men/"><p>We're at a critical juncture in the evolution of software. The web is still here and it is still strong. Anyone can still put any information or applications on a web server without asking for permission, and anyone in the world can still access it just by typing a URL. I don't think I appreciated how important that is until recently. Nobody designs new systems like that anymore, or at least few of them succeed. What an incredible stroke of luck the web was, and what a shame it would be to let that freedom slip away.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://joehewitt.com/post/on-middle-men/">Joe Hewitt</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gatekeepers">gatekeepers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iphone">iphone</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/joe-hewitt">joe-hewitt</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mobile">mobile</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharecropping">sharecropping</a></p>

2009-09-21T17:30:56+00:002009-09-21T17:30:56+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Sep/21/bulldozer/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/09/07/Mobiles-and-Money"><p>Developing for the iPhone at the moment is like picking up dimes in front of a bulldozer.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/09/07/Mobiles-and-Money">Tim Bray</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apple">apple</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iphone">iphone</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharecropping">sharecropping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tim-bray">tim-bray</a></p>

2009-07-17T13:05:55+00:002009-07-17T13:05:55+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/17/google/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://googlemashupeditor.blogspot.com/2009/07/farewell-to-mashup-editor.html">Farewell to Mashup Editor</a></strong></p> It’s not just Microsoft Popfly that’s shutting down—Google Mashup Editor will be gone in four weeks time (this was announced in January). You get to keep your code, but I don’t know enough about Mashup Editor to know if the code is usable once the system has shut down. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/googlemashupeditor">googlemashupeditor</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/popfly">popfly</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharecropping">sharecropping</a></p>

2009-07-17T09:32:46+00:002009-07-17T09:32:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/17/popfly/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry">Popfly Shutting Down</a></strong></p> Yet another reminder that building stuff on a closed-source platform (especially a hosted service) is risky business, even from a vendor as large as Microsoft. This certainly won’t help them make the case for Azure. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/azure">azure</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/closedsource">closedsource</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/popfly">popfly</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharecropping">sharecropping</a></p>

2008-09-05T13:57:26+00:002008-09-05T13:57:26+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/5/techcrunch/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/startups-in-chaos-as-adobes-flashpaper-discontinues/">Document startups in chaos as Adobe&#x27;s Flashpaper discontinues</a></strong></p> Don’t be a sharecropper. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/adobe">adobe</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/flashpaper">flashpaper</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharecropping">sharecropping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/startups">startups</a></p>

2007-01-19T09:54:15+00:002007-01-19T09:54:15+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/19/widgets/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/01/18/myspace-blocking-widgets/">MySpace Blocking Widgets?</a></strong></p> Making your business dependent on revenue from MySpace is sharecropping of the worst possible kind. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/myspace">myspace</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharecropping">sharecropping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/widgets">widgets</a></p>

2007-01-12T09:51:00+00:002007-01-12T09:51:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/12/sharecroppers/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/12/sharecroppers"><p>Apple doesn't give a damn. Steve Jobs doesn't build platforms, except by accident. He doesn't care about your thriving metropolis. All you independent Mac developers: you're all sharecroppers, and your rent just went up. Way up.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/12/sharecroppers">Mark Pilgrim</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apple">apple</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/iphone">iphone</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macos">macos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mark-pilgrim">mark-pilgrim</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sharecropping">sharecropping</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/steve-jobs">steve-jobs</a></p>