The Open Web (Still) Isn’t Going Away
The “web is dead” linkbait discussions are back, spurred in part by recent IPO news but also by various tech pundits (ironically enough, the discussions started at sites on the open web).
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February 6, 2012
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If You Like Links, You’ll Hate What Facebook Is Doing To Them
Sharing a link is one of the simplest and most social actions you can take on the web. It should be consistent across platforms. And Facebook has broken it (at least to leave Facebook) adding unnecessary complexity and poor user experience to an action the rest of the web thrives on.
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Dumb Students? Easy Fix: Blame Search Engines, Not Schools
Another day, another “back in my day things were better,” anti-technology story. Good Magazine recently published a post with the unfortunate title: Just Google It: How Search Engines Stunt College Students’ Research Skills. Let that sink in for a moment.
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Record Labels Decade-Long Anti-Internet Tirade Is Attrition Warfare
The constant, tireless battle between record labels, artists and consumers is one I’ve somewhat documented over the last few years. But nowhere near the extent sites like Techdirt have. If you’ve been reading the coverage like I have, it has pretty much started to feel like a broken record.
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Playing By A Completely Different Set Of Rules
Noah has a fantastic post on the notion of media outlets selling something other than ads. The whole post is worth reading and helps explain something readers here already understand: that every company is a media company (all creating media for different outcomes).
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Facebook And Google Should Engage In Coopetition
Despite many tech pundits obsessing over Facebook or Bing creating a better search product than Google merely due to likes, I’ve stood my ground that this is simply not an accurate observation. With nearly all the major tech publications publishing stories pitting Google vs. Facebook, it’s an easy, but at this stage huge assumption to make and not backed by anything but opinion.
