Archive for the tag 'Web 2.0'

Oct 22 2008

In defense of open models

Andrew Keen has no idea how open models work.

In his latest article, he pontificates that the recent economic downturn is a death knell for community-supported or community-built programs/sites/&c.

So how will today’s brutal economic climate change the Web 2.0 “free” economy?…

One response so far

Aug 24 2008

Javascript performance is about to get turbo-charged

Internet Explorer

Firefox

Safari

I personally think the friendly rivalry between the open-source Webkit engine (which powers Safari, among other things) and Mozilla (the Gecko engine, actually) is one of the best things to happen to browser development in years. The constant one-upsmanship can only lead…

4 responses so far

Oct 22 2006

…And the Great Cold Death of YouTube

YouTube is no stranger to the news recently. One of the media darlings of the Web 2.0 wave, it is one of those phenomenons that offered nothing more than infrastructure and an iffy interface, but managed to become a brand-name…

No responses yet