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One consequence of Google's rather expensive acquisition of DoubleClick is that it turns the company from a search engine that sells ad...

Or so it seems : 1991: Tim Berners-Lee, the acknowledged inventor of the World Wide Web, introduces WorldWideWeb, the first practical web br...

As someone who spends a lot of time wandering around the free software world, I am still constantly amazed to happen upon interesting projec...

A few weeks back I wrote about how that nice Mr. Google was sending me around 50% of my traffic to these 'umble pages. I have a confess...

Sad news : David Harris, creator of the Pegasus email client, has ceased development of the software. During Web 1.0, Pegasus was my pref...

Back in the good old Web 1.0 days, XML was really hot. Here's a useful reminder that (a) XML is 10 years old (gosh, doesn't time f...

I remember well during the heady Web 1.0 days worrying about business models (I know, this made me something of an oddity). Because it was ...

I don't get very excited over share prices. I've never owned shares, and as a journalist I don't think I should. But the news ...

For old-timers such as myself, the Eudora email client has connotations of pure Web 1.0-ness. During the 1990s it was more or less the def...

There is an iron rule in the Internet world: once people start launching services for pets, the End is Nigh. For Web 1.0, the classic case ...

Convincing proof that Web 2.0 is a replay of Web 1.0 comes in the form of Webaroo. As this piece from Om Malik explains, this start-up aim...

Digg.com is a quintessentially Web 2.0 phenomenon: a by-the-people, for-the-people version of Slashdot (itself a keyWeb 1.0 site). So Dig...

For me, one of the most exciting chapters of Rebel Code to write was that called, rather enigmatically, " Mozilla Dot Party ", wh...

First there was Flickr , now there is Flagr (via Jack Schofield ): do I detect a trend here? Is this a new -thon ( telethon , walkathon , ...