Broken Links
I’ve been getting madder and madder about the increasing use of dorky web
links; for example,
twitter.com/timbray has become
twitter.com/#!/timbray.
Others have too; see
Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
and
Going Postel. It dawns on me
that a word of explanation might be in order for those who normally don’t
worry about all the bits and pieces lurking inside a Web address.
Mobile apps & the missing links
There are advantages of developing mobile apps (and app stores): user experience, distribution and monetization opportunities.
However mobile apps don’t work like the mobile web in some pretty important ways.
For starters, developers must develop for each specific platform – iPhone, Android and Blackberry. That’s very different than developing for the open web and at a high level feels like a big step backwards.