Markdown's problems aside, the premise that it's reaching near ubiquity is crazy. Tech geeks live in such a bubble. Ask practically anyone that isn't a techie about Markdown and they'll tilt their head like the RCA dog and go "huh?".
The tech community has a wonderful ally in Mozilla, who has been committed to open standards since the beginning. They struggled with bloat issues and Google came along with Chrome, which was fast and shiny and, at the time, somewhat lean. And the tech community practically abandoned their ally in favor of the corporate controlled, profit motivated Google product.
When the tech community gets behind something, things happen - like IE market share tanking because Microsoft refused to support standards and the tech community wanting nothing to do with that. As time has gone on, Chrome has become a memory hog. So it's getting like Firefox used to be. (For those who haven't tried Firefox in a while, it's much faster now.) Now that Google is showing their disdain for standards, the best thing the tech community can do is ditch Google and return to the ally that's been there all along, Mozilla. And let there be a lesson in all this.
"FSF could have avoided my complaint by changing "According to this thread, Google is doing this on purpose" to "Based on this thread we're guessing Google may be doing this on purpose"."
That's the same damn thing. You're playing stupid word games. Troll elsewhere.
The input box is a keylogger that sends what you type to FB before you ever press enter. That's the interesting story here. Everyone already knew FB had a scraper for retrieving images and meta data. What they probably didn't know is every keystroke inside that box is logged and sent, no Enter required.
If they're going to be a consumer product, they should definitely change their name. It's a terrible name for a consumer product. It's too geeky. If they plan to be an infrastructure company whose name isn't uttered by normal everyday people, then it's a good name.
I thought TechCrunch drove way more traffic than that. I got more traffic than that in an hour from Smashing Magazine mentioning my WordPress theme. Interesting. Thanks for the figures and the story.