Posts in category ”Web industry”
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Arrival of the Ipred
Today the new Ipred law will go into action. It was initially a directive from the European Union made in 2004, now interpreted and transformed into a Swedish law.
Obama inauguration 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.
Azure revealed at PDC08 in Los Angeles
PDC08 kicked off today in Los Angeles with the expected keynote by Ray Ozzie. He presented Azure, a web service 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.
Examining Google Knol
Google’s toolbox keeps getting bigger. Search, maps, mail, advertising, analytics… Apparently world domination is best approached one convenient web service at a time.
Online life after death
The term Web 2.0 may have been beaten to death by consultants, conference speakers and people with suspiciously expensive PowerPoint presentations, but there is something genuinely interesting underneath all the marketing debris: we are leaving increasingly large pieces of ourselves online.
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.
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.
Level of fame
What exactly makes someone famous in the computer world? Not so long ago, computing was the domain of scientists, engineers and people who could discuss network protocols for several hours without requiring alcohol. It was technical, obscure and sufficiently incomprehensible to guarantee that almost nobody involved would ever be stopped for an autograph.
Why Web 3.0 will fail
Just when we were beginning to get comfortable with Web 2.0, with its gradients, rounded corners and breathless promises of a better tomorrow, the hype machine has coughed up another shiny new label: Web 3.0. Apparently, this is the future.
The ecosystem of Web 2.0
Yesterday I gave a customer presentation about Web 2.0. The technology behind it, the social implications and presumably why anyone outside a room full of obstinate developers should give a damn.