Archives for the "HTML" tag
Fauxpenness
Some companies pretend to be open. Introducing the concept of Fauxpenness, a definition, and some examples from current companies.
Tags: API, Facebook, HTML, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, fauxpenness, iPhone
In Analysis, Technology
Google unveils web-based OS
A product long rumored and whose very existence was long denied by Google itself finally launched: the Google browser, aka. Google Chrome. There are a number of things that are good and a few that leaves one scratching his head but ultimately, it is very clear that Google is working very hard to ensure that [...]
Tags: Advertising, Browser, Google, HTML, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, hybrid computing
In Business, Technology
Standards as social contracts
Looking at the efforts Dave Winer is undertaking in terms of getting OPML to become yet another standard, I’ve been thinking about how formats get adopted. The key insight I came up with is that standards are actually a form of social contract and increasingly, data formats is following the same path. Looking at the history In [...]
Tags: HTML, HTTP, History, Linux, RSS, Standard, Syndication, XML
In Technology
The New Gatekeepers
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal claims that there is a level of conflict of interest for bloggers who have advised FON and are writing about it. While the Journal’s story, in itself, is probably more of a tempest in a tea cup, I do believe that it raises some interesting issues in [...]
Tags: Google, HTML, online world
In Analysis
Yahoo! acquires WebJay
A few minutes ago, I learned that Yahoo! acquired WebJay, a site that allows for categorization, editing, listening, and sharing of playlists online (In a way, it can easily be compared to del.icio.us for multimedia.) WebJay was created in early 2004 as a way to create the internet equivalent of mix tapes. Lucas Gonze, the [...]
Tags: Google, HTML, Yahoo, digital media, media types
In Analysis
Links and Search Engines: The MSN edition
I’ve been promising for a while to complete this series with results relating to MSN (and, for the record, this has nothing to do with Scoble begging for it). I finally got around to cleaning up the HTML output of Excel and can now present the third (and probably final) installment in my analysis of [...]
Tags: Google, HTML, Search, United States, Yahoo
In Analysis
