Tag: web 2.0
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Meet the Jefferson of ‘Web 2.0’
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Andrew Orlowski
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If Google’s PageRank reflects the “uniquely democratic nature of the web” – and if weblogs are the most empowering technology of our age – then how can we begin to fete a humble entrepreneur based in St Paul, MN? Very probably as the Gutenberg of the digital age. And the Jefferson. All rolled into one.…
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Flock founder flees
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Andrew Orlowski
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Soon all browsers would look like Flock, predicted Business Week. Included here for this quote, found on the internets. Wasn’t this the quintissential Web 2.0 business plan? Raise a bunch of capital in order to hire old people for pennies on the dollar. Use this vast, untapped resource in order to ‘develop’ a browser that…
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‘Lightweight, high-velocity and very connected’
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Andrew Orlowski
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At ZDNet, it’s Microsoft’s “Pearl Harbor”! Forbes screams, “Google’s office invasion is on!” Only it isn’t – and we have the founder’s word for it. As we reported yesterday, Google has paid an undisclosed sum for a web-based document editor, Writely. It’s a product that seems as mature as the company which produced it, Upstartle.…
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The Internet Services Puddle
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Andrew Orlowski
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What Ray Ozzie’s strategic memo really says. Ever the master of public relations, Microsoft has always been able to figure its way out of a tight spot with the use of a judiciously leaked memo. Remember when AOL merged with Netscape back in 1998? Time to take a leak. Remember 2000, when Symbian was stealing…
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Web 2.0: It’s … like your brain on LSD!
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Andrew Orlowski
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. My invitation to define Web 2.0 – Tim O’Reilly was clearly struggling – biggest postbag at The Register, ever: five a minute for 24 hours. You’ll see from the suggestions that even before most people had heard the buzzword, they already knew what it portended: a consultancy racket. See the original here, and the…
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Six Things you need to know about Bubble 2.0
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Andrew Orlowski
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We follow the money Web 2.0 Techno utopian types love their earthy metaphors. The web is a new planet that’s being “terraformed” before our eyes, one advertising consultant likes to say. Or the “web is a garden“, if you believe Sun Microsystem’s director of research. Even my overgrown garden doesn’t have something like this lurking…