Category: Web

  • Ebooks: the next online battleground

    Isn’t this just like the music industry was a decade ago?: New medium captures imaginations of content creators and consumers. For publishers, literally zero distribution costs. Publishers succumb to temptation to charge an arm and a leg for the product,…

  • A golden milestone to mark a decade

    The Golden Age of tech blogging is over, says Jeremiah Owyang in his post on December 27. […] Like the film industry, the Golden Era is the emergence period, when fresh innovation in a new medium is born. New techniques,…

  • Make of Twitter what you will

    A few days ago, on December 7, I began my sixth year on Twitter. As with many things on the social web, there’s a free service that told me of the anniversary, and another one that sent me a ‘birthday…

  • Get ready for the cookie law

    A lot of attention was focused earlier this year on cookies, those little snips of coded text that websites automatically place on your computer when you visit those sites with your web browser. The attention on cookies was all to…

  • Touching the BBC

    I was taking a look through the beta version of the BBC’s new website when it occurred to me that what I was interacting with was a web presence that’s geared to touch and feel more than to point and…