Great article on Mashable about things we’d like to see fixed on the web. This is a summary of the list. I like some of the things on their wish list, so I’m going to revise the list here to add my own comments.
Better Privacy with Facebook’s Project Beacon
I strongly agree with this one. Facebook’s privacy issue was the biggest pr mistake of the year.
Google Should Modify its Mission Statement. It is ok to admit it, Google. You want to be the internet. You want to fix the world. You can say it. I’m sure it will be quite liberating. Just come clean with us. We’ll still love you.
A name change to “Pinky and The Brain” would be appropriate.
Net Neutrality. We Want It.
Could not agree more.
We Want the RIAA and the MPAA to Quit It
Please let me have this one Santa. I’ll be a good boy all year.
Google Should Get a Handle on Its Censorship Policy
Not a biggie on my wishlist. Asking them to get a handle on page rank or throw it out would be a better wish in my opinion.
Bloggers, Give Me Full RSS Feeds
Uhhh . . . We work hard on our blogs. We would like you to visit them. So this is not on my wish list.
Podcasting Advertising Groups. Stop being Hippies! need more podcast ad groups that will live up to their promises. If you have me run an advertisement for three months on my podcast, then you need to pay me.
Not a biggie on my wishlist. You are getting free badwidth and a place to put your video. Want to distribute cvideos without ads? Put them on your own blog and pay for the bandwidth.
I Want Better Interoperability in Social Media While we’re talking about the podcasting genre of social media, I want my services to talk to each other.
Once again. Each of the social media sites wants you to actually visit them. The people that you send stuff to for votes want to do so IF you actually participate at the same community they do. You want to visit one social media site and be able to update all the rest with no effort.
Well, you did say this is a wish list I guess. Social media is about community, not about you getting the most exposure you can get for your latest marketing effort.
MySpace, Please Lose the Glitter
You’re still using MySpace? Something at MySpace bothers you enough to put it in the top 12 things you would change on the web? Wow.
I Wish the Patent System in America Wasn’t Broken
I agree with this 100%. But just sad you put it on a list that also includes changing something at myspace. The patent system being broken has actual importance.
Twitter Should Buy More Servers
Yes, I think if you provide a FREE service on the web, you deserve all the criticism you can get. I know . . . it’s a wish list. But be grateful twitter isn’t charging you money to buy new servers.
I want a New Version Number We’ve been stuck on Web 2.0 for too long. I think it’s time we either picked a new buzzword, or gave ourselves a couple version bumps. I’m even open to doing the WinAmp thing, and skipping a few version numbers. Can we get ourselves up to Web 5.0 between now and the New Year?
I just ignore the whole web version thing. Most people cannot even define what web 2.0 is let alone giving them web 3.1.67 build number 1395.
Here are sopme things I would like to add to the christmas wishlist for the web.
That people would stop clicking links in spam emails so the spammers would stop sending them out.. You. You know who you are. Stop believing you won a lottery you never signed up for. Stop believing a pill will make your penis bigger. Stop believing that some former dictator needs your help to transfer money to the US. Stop visiting supposed canadian pharmacies when the domain name you are going to is owned by someone in russia. There are no canadian pharmacies in russia. No legitimate companies are spamming you to sell you windows vista for $39.95. if you stop clicking the rest of us will stop getting so much spam.
That people would stop forwarding junk email. This is the email you send us that has an attached email that has an attached email that has an attached email that has an attached email that has an attached email that has an attached email that has an attached email that has an attached email, you get the picture. Plus you are forwarding my email address out in the open to the other 1000 people that did not want your attached email either. Ever hear of BCC?
That People would stop calling themselves Internet Gurus just because they read an SEO book one time.
That people would stop using any SEO service that claims they can guarantee you top search engine listings in 30 days, that they have the google secret, or that they have some type of magic formula to Internet success.
That people would learn that PLR articles are not and never will be original content.
That people will learn that spending $5000 on website design and then buying cheap content to put into it will not make them successful. Content is what gets you great search engine listings. Content is what makes people want to buy from you. Great content is what people will link to. Having just the perfect logo and the right shade of green will not help you become successful and the search engines don’t care about the colors you chose or that your logo is better than your competitor’s logo.
And most of all Santa, I wish that the governments, especially the US government stays out of the Internet Business.
What’s on your wish list for the Internet?
The rest of the mashable list is here.
