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WebGL and the future of the web

October 23, 2011

What is WebGL and why is it important?

Standards as social contracts

June 7, 2006

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 order […]

Microsoft Loves RSS

June 23, 2005

The blo­gosh­pere is buzzing about Microsoft’s announced sup­port for RSS. Here’s a quick his­tory of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the stan­dard. How we got there? Microsoft is not really a new player in the syn­di­ca­tion space. With the release of Inter­net Explorer 4.0, in 1997, the Redmond […]

A matter of Style

April 17, 2003

The WTH Remix con­test has ended and the win­ners have been announced, show­ing that some­times, the net com­mu­nity can do bet­ter than stan­dards cre­ator. The grand prize win­ner is a visu­ally arrest­ing page (com­pared to the orig­i­nal) that has only a few small things miss­ing in order to make it per­fect. First of all, I would ensure that […]

Mind the Gap

April 16, 2003

Accord­ing to recent research, the dig­i­tal divide may include peo­ple who are not inter­ested in get­ting online. The impli­ca­tion of this are enor­mous, impact­ing areas like E-government ini­tia­tive. The idea of pro­vid­ing more ser­vices online allows cor­po­ra­tions and gov­ern­ment to reduce costs by encour­ag­ing self ser­vice. How­ever, if a num­ber of peo­ple decide that there is […]

Much Ado About XHTML 2

April 15, 2003

There has recently been much grum­bling about XHTML 2 in gen­eral and its dep­re­ca­tion of the IMG tag in favor of the OBJECT one. While XHTML 2 is indeed a depar­ture from the exist­ing stan­dards instead of being an evo­lu­tion, it is impor­tant to real­ize that some of the things the work­group is try­ing to do is fix […]

How new features appear

April 14, 2003

Today’s release of Beta 2 of the Safari browser her­alds the intro­duc­tion of tabbed brows­ing in the much talked about browser. This is an inter­est­ing devel­op­ment which shows that some­times, the influ­ence of a par­tic­u­lar browser goes beyond its exist­ing mar­ket share. Safari’s tabbed brows­ing is a result of an imple­men­ta­tion that first appeared in Opera, a browser used […]

Blog, Internet, and Marketing

March 7, 2003

For the past week, I’ve been post­ing a fair amount about the rag­ing cow and about estab­lish­ing trust in a mar­ket where mar­keters are try­ing to get in side by side with other blog­gers. Chris Pir­illo makes some good points about the rag­ing cow cam­paign: Is it so bad if they are try­ing to engage us in […]

Trust, truth and networks

March 5, 2003

The rag­ing cow inci­dent shows that there’s a need to estab­lish trust in the blog­ging (and maybe the web) world. Tim Bray demon­strates that most blog­gers have rela­tion­ships to prod­ucts, con­cepts, com­pa­nies, and other blog­gers. His dec­la­ra­tion of truth is a good start but there are a num­ber of things that still need to be done. Mean­while, Scott […]

Internet in France 2002: An overview

August 19, 2002

Last week, I was in France for a short vaca­tion. Dur­ing that time, I got a chance to talk to peo­ple locally and get a bet­ter idea as to what was going on within the Inter­net mar­ket in France. Here are a few obser­va­tions based on my under­stand­ing of what is going on. Strong Growth France had been a leader in terms of […]