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Łukasz Maciak, inspired by a Steve Yegge blog post, talks about how Google App Engine is a first step to creating a sandboxed environment where hosting user scriptable Web apps is possible:

“This is the problem that Google App Engine solves. They are the few companies out there which figured out how to safely let people run arbitrary code on their servers without getting pwned by script kiddies. They have found a way to safely, securely and efficiently sandbox user created web applications from the rest of their system. And this is huge. It is a proof of concept that this sort of thing can be done, and it can be done safely.”

“In the future we can see a brand new species of online services - ones that grow and transform themselves and adopt allowing the vibrant community to add new features and modules. Picture this: an emacs like flexibility and malleability, but for a web service. This could be huge…”