Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Month: February 2007

  • Google – this internet won’t scale

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Google’s TV chief has admitted the internet is crap for TV. Speaking to the Cable Europe Congress in Amsterdam, Vincent Dureau told attendees: “The web infrastructure, and even Google’s [infrastructure]…doesn’t scale. It’s not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect.” Dureau, is head of TV technology at the ad giant. He candidly…

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  • On the Web 2.0 bubble

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    To London, where the web utopianism has a name (“Web 2.0”) and is a rage amongst marketing and media people. I reiterated a point I had raised two years earlier: &ldquo”Let’s acknowledge what the Web has been successful at: as a presentation layer. But the Web 2.0 kids desperately want to write system apps on…

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  • Wikipedia defends reality against Stephen Colbert

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    TV wit Stephen Colbert has had more fun at the expense of Wikipedia with another deeply ironic prank. Last year Colbert satirized the project’s dependence on the consensus theory of truth – which for Wikipedians is a feature, not a bug. The project’s guideline “WP:V” states, “The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not…

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