"I upvoted your comment - I think you're right. I feel like search works well enough (if you're patient) but there is plenty of room for improvement. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!"
- Charles Hudson
"Very good comment - thank you for sharing. I agree that they have stayed focus on the most core, basic utility value proposition of directory search."
- Charles Hudson
"Good point, Jeremy. I think they are doing some asymmetric stuff around the edges with news and publishing but I feel like the core experience on the site is still about symmetric connections."
- Charles Hudson
"Noah, Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I want to be a bit more clear on what I'm talking about. As you mentioned, there are ways for developers to implement deep linking in their own apps today. Some are doing it themselves, some are using 3rd party SDKs / toolkits to deep-link enable their own applications. What I've heard from talking to developers in my portfolio and outside of it is that they do want a more consistent way to talk to other applications that I, as a user, have installed on my phone. So while they can control the way that they implement deep links on their own apps, they have virtually no control over how other developers have chosen to implement it. So it makes it harder to have good, consistent app-to-app experiences. I though the FB demo of what they want AppLinks to enable at F8 to be fairly compelling. And in talking to folks, it seems like there is some fear that the way in which apps talk to each other to enable deep linking could become balkanized. I think..."
- Charles Hudson
"Great comment, sir. I agree that open source will play a role in this as well. I think that's what Facebook wants to do with AppLinks as well."
- Charles Hudson