Yeah, Play and the underlying fast flip technology (http://fastflip.googlelabs.com) are interesting and not a little scary. They seem focused on lowest-common-denominator content (images and video) that looks good, and it's not clear that they're actually trying to guess my tastes. (I'm signed in but still don't see stuff from my feeds.) Pure-text articles look hideous in play, and if there's a way to find permalinks I can't see it.
It's not clear how much of this is just transient implementation issues, and how much is their bet that most people want to look and not read. It keeps me up at night.
It's not clear how much of this is just transient implementation issues, and how much is their bet that most people want to look and not read. It keeps me up at night.