12 posts and columns on Tim Berners-Lee

Happy 20th Anniversary to Silicon Valley’s First Web Site

in News on December 12, 2011 at 8:46 am PT

On Dec. 12, 1991, Paul Kunz set up a Web interface based on a Web server to search a popular database of particle physics literature, and sent an email to Tim Berners-Lee about it.
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Ancient Liberties of the Web

We all use the web now for all kinds of parts our lives, some trivial, some critical to our life as part of a social world. In the spirit going back to Magna Carta, we require a principle that: No person or organization shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed to use disconnection from the Internet as a way of arbitrarily furthering their own aims.

– World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, speaking out against COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act)

World Wide Web Almost Old Enough to Drink; Lucy Hits the Century Mark

in News on August 6, 2011 at 3:22 pm PT

The Web celebrates its 20th birthday, while Google marks what would have been Lucille Ball’s 100th birthday with a very cool retro TV doodle.
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Eolas Sues Internet

in News on October 6, 2009 at 11:29 am PT

Three years after squeezing a settlement out of Microsoft for alleged infringements of its controversial patent on embedded Web applications, Eolas Technologies hopes to do the same to a bunch of other big tech outfits. This morning, the research and development company filed suit against nearly two dozen companies, including Amazon, Apple, Adobe and Google.
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Web 3.0: The Salesforce.com Web

in News on May 8, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

If the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 are “groundbreaking” Facebook widgets, easy access to dumb capital and haughty start-ups dangerously over-leveraged on other companies’ assets what (or who) will define the Web 3.0 epoch? The answer’s obvious isn’t it? Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. Why? Because he says so, that’s why. Speaking at the company’s DreamForce [...]

Web 3.Oh- God- Will- This- Silly- Versioning- Never- Stop?!!

in News on October 4, 2007 at 12:02 pm PT

Had to happen sooner or later, right? The lexicographers who gave us the term Web 2.0 have finally gotten around to issuing an “official” definition of Web 3.0 and, having undoubtedly scurried to trademark the term, are probably already plotting the pricey industry conference that will accompany it.

Web 2.0 Audience in Mirror May Be Smaller Than It Appears

in News on May 7, 2007 at 11:37 am PT

How ironic is it that Web 2.0–the “participatory Web”–has far fewer participants than its architects would have us believe?