Web 2.0 is DOS 2.0
It's 2007, why is the web acting like it's 1987?
Where's my password-manager? Each site I access wants me to create a username and password. Many didn't get the memo in 1998 and still insist on using something other than an email address as the username. Some take it even further and want me to set up a secret question/answer to use as a password for recovering my password. How am I supposed to manage this information? Across multiple computers? When organizations like dreamhost occasionally leak my password info? Is OpenID going to save us?
Hey cool new web2.0 app, I don't want to give you my facebook/del.icio.us/flickr/gmail/bank password just because you promise you'll entertain me with a pretty redraw of the data. I might consider granting you temporary read-only access to one of these services, but, oops, nobody's invented that yet. I might even grant you full access, but I don't want to give you my password to do so. Otherwise, how am I going to remove you when you (inevitably) do something stupid like alter my data or spam my friends? Didn't kerberos figure all this out like last century?
Hey webapp, where's my data? I want to move my facebook profile to linkedin. How? You're telling me I need to download all my email/documents/pictures/contacts to my computer to move them from gmail/flickr/blogger to yahoo/shutterfly/typepad? Ok ok, I'd never move to typepad, but still, you get the idea: I used to have this computer, it had a "desktop" metaphor, and through that metaphor I could "copy" files, or use "save-as" to save Word docs as Wordperfect. I tell you, it was all space-age stuff back then.