Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: web 2.0

  • 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.

    Brian Adams of Blue Diamond Enterprises has announced the newest tool that leverages both weblogs and the “collective intelligence” of Google’s algorithms. His new software, … Read More

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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 consists of an amalgamation of buzzwords (and other useless garbage) and code stolen from pre-existing projects. Shortly after the product comes out of ‘stealth-mode’
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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.

    Explaining why she decided to sell the company, whose only product has been in a limited, closed beta for just six months, co-founder Claudia … Read More

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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.

    Orgone

    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 the thunder from Microsoft’s cellphone strategy? Time to take a leak. Remember when the antitrust settlement talks had hit a sticky patch? Time … Read More

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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 many witty entries here.

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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 in the corner, and I hope there isn’t such a horror in yours.

    But enough with the hot-tub psycho babble. The … Read More

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