Posts in category ”Web industry”

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The Ipred onslaught

The Ipred onslaught

Today the new Ipred law will go into action. I really wish it was just a tasteless April’s fool joke, but unfortunately it is the bitter truth. It was initially a directive from the European Union made in 2004, now interpreted and transformed into a Swedish law.

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Obama in PhotoSynth

Obama in PhotoSynth

45 years ago, a man named Martin Luther King stood in front of the Lincoln memorial and spoke to 250 000 people. His voice carried the words “I have a dream” across the National Mall.

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Under an Azure blue sky

Under an Azure blue sky

PDC08 kicked off today with the expected keynote by Ray Ozzie. He presented Azure, a web platform hosted in data centers all over the world. It will host web applications in “the cloud”, supposedly the best thing since sliced bread if we are to believe Ozzie.

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Examining Google Knol

Examining Google Knol

Google is expanding their empire every day and this morning saw the birth of Google Knol, a service quite reminiscent of Wikipedia where the term Knol refers to a unit of knowledge. I usually try to be positive about new ideas, but this one got me wondering.

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Online life after death

Online life after death

Even though I generally loathe the commercialized term Web 2.0, I believe social interaction on web sites is most often a very good idea. We create a lot of digital content today and it’s a fun thing for others to view and explore.

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The modern plague of phishing

The modern plague of phishing

Once upon a time, the so-called Nigerian letters were adopted to online versions by devious spammers. They were basically email versions of advance fee frauds and I suppose that a few people fell for these traditional scams delivered by snail mail.

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Scaling Twitter

Scaling Twitter

Twitter has come a long way since its first incarnations in Jack Dorsey’s notebook. Even though it may be ignored by the most, it is still extremely popular with over 11 000 requests per second. As anyone with technical sense would guess, this leads to massive scaling issues.

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The death of Microsoft

The death of Microsoft

Paul Graham recently published an article entitled Microsoft is dead. He claims that Microsoft is no longer a threat to other companies and mentions four things that supposedly killed the company: Google, Ajax, Apple and broadband.

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Thoughts on Connection07

Thoughts on Connection07

Connection07 was held at Stadsmuseet, one of the very few web conferences held in Gothenburg. Compared to the large global conferences such as MIX and @media, this is of course a lot smaller.

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Celebrities of the web

Celebrities of the web

What is it that make someone famous in the computer world? To be recognized in the developer community twenty years ago often meant a lot of hard work.

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