Tom O’Reilly: Forget the PC, think mobile instead

Over at O’Reilly Radar, Tim O’Reilly shared the story of a friend who realized the future is here. (Hint: It’s in your pocket.)

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The story goes something like this: Vic was out for dinner with family and friends. The adults were on one side of the table, the kids on the other. The [...]

Ubiquity brings text back to browsing, let’s you mash up everything

Fresh from the Mozilla labs, Ubiquity looks like one of those plugins that might seriously change the way we do stuff on the web, or rather: in our browsers. It’s a new user interface that comes as a Firefox plugin, and it allows you to “ask” your browser for stuff by text. Sounds kind of… [...]

Berlin Web Buzz This Fall: Web2Expo & BarCampBerlin 3

This fall, Berlin will be buzzing with web stuff once more: O’Reilly’s Web2Expo will be in town, and it’ll be surrounded by a lot of smaller events. Most notably the way-more-intimate BarCamp Berlin in its third installment, aka #BCB3. Last year, this meant a week or so full of web events as the Twitterati flocked [...]

Tim Berners Lee Explains Web Philosophy In Two Minutes

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Two minutes is all it takes for internet pioneer Tim Berners Lee to explain the basic philosophy behind the development of the web as we know it - namely, that sharing, open source and collaboration are the very basis the web is built on.