[旧文] 开放平台的三个矛盾的思考

看了Mark 的专访，由其中有些话又想起之前在思考的开放平台的三个矛盾。后面收集些资料有机会和大家共同探讨。

一、开放和封闭的矛盾

He said people have been trained to believe that there is a binary set of options concerning privacy and sharing of data: that some things are sharable and others are not.

"Take a photo album from a party," he said. "Unless you have specific tools to limit who can see it, then you won't share it with anyone."

有无相生，难易相成，长短相形。开放封闭是相对而生的矛盾共同体。

二、长尾和短头的矛盾

"Developers aren't fundamentally spammy," he told me, "they want to add value around what they are enabled to do. So far they've been incentivized to get as many users as possible." He said the company is trying to shift the incentive structure to reward truly useful, trustworthy apps.

长尾的需求其实往往是被短头的应用所满足。

三、大象和蚂蚁的矛盾

Data portability advocates might take heart in the fact that Zuckerberg wants to clean up the Facebook ecosystem of Zombie-throwing crap. The percentage of data worth making portable on Facebook is far from ideal today.

Data portability will not be viable anywhere until there are simple, granular and effective controls over user data and privacy. Facebook is in a good place to focus on solving those problems.

Facebook may have felt like the only game in town when the Platform launched, but things change fast and between the much broader OpenSocial and a fast expanding community of standards based developers - Facebook might soon find that it's sitting on the sidelines while everyone else works together to solve these common problems.

善舞的大象和蚂蚁雄兵的博弈，后势如何？