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Dot Commies
[Yahoo v Google]When commercial interests began to swamp the Internet in the 1990's, many of the pioneers - who came from academic backgrounds - worried that too much corporate control would destroy the open framework that fueled the Internet's rapid growth. They spoke out in various media saying to keep the web free and open, hence the name Dot Commies.
Jakob Nielsen's UseIt.com
User-Supportive Internet Architecture (Alertbox Sept. 1999)
This post to the Alertbox section of this site led me to a precursor of Web 2.0 technology as it is used today. UseIt.Com is a powerful resource for anybody who creates or manages websites. Executives that oversee websites should understand the basic concepts of usability.
Usability = Happy UsersDave Winer's UserLand
DaveNet : Edit This Page
Dave Winer's Apache software serves over 3/4 of all the pages served on the Internet. Like many of the early Internet pioneers, he was idealistic in his views on how the Internet should work. This post includes a link to Cluetrain.Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee's Bio on w3.org
Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web. The Internet - which consists of interconnected computers - had existed for over a decade. But Berners-Lee created a protocol that examined the content inside those computers, creating a global information space or so-called virtual world.Cluetrain
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Bombastic. Aggressive. Revolutionary. Cluetrain is all that and more. Viewed by many at the time as the ravings of fringe elements, Cluetrain has proved to be an apt predicter of how the Internet is affecting markets and commerce in general.the cluetrain manifesto - signatories
If you scroll on down this page, you'll see a certain someone signed onto this concept. [Hint: search the page for "John Speck"]BugMeNot.Com
Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
This article and discussion at the Poynter media website discusses the subversive technology BugMeNot that provides ficticious logins for sites that require registration. Tim Berners-Lee was an early advocate and helped generate a lot of buzz during the launch.The Next Big Thing
Boston-area team behind iMoondo see bright future in video advertising website - The Boston Globe
This just goes to show that it's college kids and high tech dropouts that generate the breakthrough ideas. This video classified ad service could be knocked out in a couple of weeks at any big IT company, but none of them saw the obvious market for the product.Judge Shuts Down Whistleblower Site
A website devoted to posting anonymous leaked information is shut by judicial order. Indeed, Web 2.0 will create a series of problematic legal situations testing the limits of free speech. However, Wikileaks continues to publish.The Economist Debate Series
The Economist magazine hosts a series of Oxford-style debates with lead debaters and participants from the Internet. These semi-stratified approaches tend to limit the less helpful voices that can plague open discussions.Yahoo v Google
Yahoo IPO closes at $33 after $43 peak | CNET News.com
The CNET News report of Yahoo's Initial Public Offering, April 12, 1996. If you bought at the IPO and held today, you'd be up about 2000%. If you bought at the post-crash low, you'd be up more than 500%. But it's market capitalization is 20% of Google's.Who's afraid of Google? | Economist.com
Of all the business press articles I've read about Google, this one in The Economist misses the point the least. I have yet to run across any mainstream writer that really GETS Google.NYTimes.com Interstitial Ad Jumper – Userscripts.org
This is a website for programmers that write little 'scripts' that do things. Like jump over interstitial ads. People really hate these things and go to great lengths to avoid them.» Hate Interstitial Ads? » InsideGoogle-part of the Blog News Channel
Yet more discussion of the suckiness of interstitial ads. This one refers to a rumor that Google was allowing interstitials.Adsense + AdBrite = ? - AdSense Policy Questions | Google Groups
This discussion on the Google forums shows that Google does not sell interstitials. It also discusses guidelines for what other ads can be on pages with Google ads. As always with Google, it's all about the user's experience.