He gives Google’s page creator a C… why?
This evening Google launched a totally unremarkable page creator web app. It’s a nice Ajax text editor, with templates, but why isn’t it part of Blogger, or at least connected to Blogger, and where is the feed? The sites have no structure.
Where is the Mind of Google these days? Seems to be back in the mid-90s, re-discovering Geocities. Give me a ring when there’s at least some rudimentary content management in there.
Score: C.
Look, Dave, if you’re making a webpage, it doesn’t need a feed just because it’s on the internet. Feeds are not fundamental parts of everything on the web, they’re tools that can be used in very particular situations to enhance data flow. But more obnoxious than that…
He’s really just pissed that Google has done something. Anything. It doesn’t matter what it is. If Google does it, Dave hates it. Did he point to a better AJAX page editor? No, he complained about how it’s not a part of blogger. As though it would be that easy for Google to just snap their fingers and add a huge feature to blogger. This is a product developed to stand alone. Could it be modified to work on Blogger templates? Yes. Is that why it was developed? Maybe. Is that the point of it at the moment? No.
What if the had made it part of Blogger, would Dave be a fan, then?
He’s probably just irked that some 12 year old can now log into Google’s page-creator and create something in 2 minutes that looks an order of magnitude better than anything Dave’s software products can produce out of the box.