By C. Bate
I can recall a time when using a Web browser and accessing the Web (I guess ‘Web 1.0' in those days!), was the domain of the specialist alone. And I can recall a time when everyone I knew used the Web as if it was entirely natural. Trying to...
Read moreSometimes, life is not so bad at all. Writing a blog-item on the balcony of a Paris hotel on a sun-drenched day in spring: doesn’t feel like a prison camp. Especially not with a panoramic view of the Eiffel tower, just a stone’s throw away. Did...
Read moreIs there always something new to wish for? In some cases, you are inclined to think not. Take for example Charles Simonyi, an above average gifted programmer from Hungary who joined a modest start-up company in the beginning of the eighties that...
Read moreIt seems that Web 2.0 has entered the business main stream now that established business dailies—such as the Australian Financial Review which had an article on wikis (light weight, online, blackboards) the other day—are publishing on the topic....
Read moreI cannot understand why there should be an apparent gap in the debate between the rising concern over Copy Right on file sharing sites and the work that has been done on Digital Rights over the last few years. To quote from a recent newspaper...
Read moreNo doubt many of you are preparing for the Easter weekend. And just to prevent that you have to spend it in boredom and lethargy, I would like to invite you to join us in publishing your personal 6-Word IT Story. Hemingway once did it: “For sale:...
Read moreWay back on 29th Jan in a blog post called ‘SecondLife shows Government a new way’ – seems an awful long time ago, but then that’s the rate of change we are seeing these days – I speculated that SL might just become a new ‘town square’...
Read moreAm I part of the Long Tail? I guess so, given the fact that I recently found – after a profound search – a German website on which I could order Schlagende Wetter. This is a long lost CD from 1982 by Kowalski, a band from the industrial Ruhr...
Read moreLet’s start with a quote from one of the most influential people in the industry. ‘The big innovation happens at the top, the data base and operating system become less and less visible, you don’t build to the database as you did before and you...
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