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Donald Trump was back. And then he wasn’t. In this week’s column we look at the decision by Facebook’s oversight board that the social media company …

Two months ago I bemoaned how Web 2.0 had failed to live up to its promise in one crucial area; from The Web’s Missing Interoperability: [From] the …

The emergence of industrial cities reshaped society. It changed how, where, and why people interacted for pleasure and profit. The emergence of the …

I first came across the application programming interface (API) directory, ProgrammableWeb, in September 2005, shortly after it was launched by John …

How the historic company became known as a bumbling villain of internet culture Yahoo Answers is not what most people would call a good source of information. On Monday morning, the top questions on its homepage, as decided by its users, included whether the Democratic Party would eventually …

Cloud Native Computing Foundation sponsored this post, in anticipation of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 – Virtual, May 4-7. Global web services …

Future of Web 3.0What is Web 3.0, how is it different from what we have today, and what does it mean for the future of the internet? Join us as we …

In a 2000 piece for Wired, John Perry Barlow celebrated the rise of Napster and peer-to-peer file sharing while ridiculing the entertainment …

Financial services have tended to soak up all the attention in the world of blockchain, but a new era is coming. In the first wave of initial coin …

Google today announced that it is moving FeedBurner to a new infrastructure but also deprecating its email subscription service. If you’re an internet user of a certain age, chances are you used Google’s FeedBurner to manage the RSS feeds of your personal blogs and early podcasts at some point. …