Category Archives: World Wide Web

Shocking News about News Consumption

Posted on May 9, 2011 by GilPress

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism published today the results of its analysis of the top 25 popular news websites in the United States. Among the findings: 

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Does the Web Make Us Networked Robots or Better Humans?

Posted on May 9, 2011 by GilPress

From a summary of a discussion with Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together:

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The World Wide Web, 1851

Posted on May 1, 2011 by GilPress

One hundred sixty years ago today, the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations or The Great Exhibition, opened in London.  It was the first in a series of World’s Fair exhibitions continuing to the present day. 

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From Desktop Computing to the Web in Our Hands

Posted on April 1, 2011 by GilPress

Thirty-five years ago today, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne signed a partnership agreement that established the company that will become Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977. (Wayne left the company eleven days later, relinquishing his ten percent share … Continue reading →

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Groupon Changes Everything?

Posted on January 3, 2011 by GilPress

It turns out Groupon is indeed worth at least $6 billion. But Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis “don’t get it” (they think it’s because they are men and don’t understand shopping). Paul Kedrosky insists Groupon cannot scale. John Battelle gets … Continue reading →

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This Day in Information: Birth of W3C

Posted on December 14, 2010 by GilPress

Today in 1994, the first meeting of the Advisory Committee of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was held at MIT. Tim Berners-Lee in Weaving the Web:

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Berners-Lee Correctly Defines Social Networking as “pre-Web”

Posted on November 22, 2010 by GilPress

Tim Berners-Lee published today in Scientific American an article titled “Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality.”

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Bob Metcalfe, October 2009

Posted on September 3, 2010 by GilPress

Bob Metcalfe has been involved—as a direct catalyst or a prominent observer—in a number of key milestones spanning the evolution of the IT industry: the birth of the Internet, the invention of Ethernet and local area networks, and the rapid … Continue reading →

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Tim Berners-Lee, September 2009

Posted on September 2, 2010 by GilPress

In 1989, while a fellow at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Today he is 3Com Founders Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he serves … Continue reading →

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