Wow. This one has been developing for some time now right before our eyes, but the titanic nature of the faceoff between what are arguably the two most aggressive representatives of Web 2.0 — Facebook and Twitter — has only recently heated up to the boiling point. As Brad Stone, of The New York Times, observed this weekend, Facebook’s leaders have recently taken the bold step...
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The rap from cynics throughout the Web 2.0 period is much like that during Web 1.0 — “where’s the business model?” And it remains true that Digg, Facebook, and YouTube, in particular, have failed so far to convince skeptics that they will ever be able to become profitable, although nobody I know has yet stopped using them, which may be a point to reflect upon. Along...
The worldwide web is a still a teenager, but it is poised to become a legal adult later this summer, on a date nobody is likely to notice, let alone celebrate. How tender and young the web still is can be hard to remember, since it has come to dominate our lives in so many ways so quickly. So, in my modest role as a chronicler of the early Internet Era, and my instincts as a journalist (with...
We’ve been covering the threats by Associated Press executives to close down access to its content to online companies that don’t pay for the privilege to do so for some time now, so the latest revelations about which company is the real target of the AP’s wrath comes as no surprise: Google. As Forbes.com reports, talks between the two opposites apparently have not been going...
Baltimore Sun announces layoffs, hints toward online-only future — The Baltimore Sun has announced it is cutting nearly a third of its newsroom, or 61 positions, including 18 editors. The Sun’s parent company, Tribune Co., filed for bankruptcy late last year and has been cutting costs ever since. The layoffs are also the latest indication that the Sun is considering moving to an...
If Google were reduced to a single character in film, it might well be Anakin Skywalker, George Lucas’s heroic Jedi Knight who tragically yields to the Force to become the evil Darth Vader. Among the search company’s core principles is the statement: You can make money without doing evil. In line with that assertion, which I heartily agree with, let’s note that Google...
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