Tag: open web
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The Pirate Bay is ruining BitTorrent for everyone
BitTorrent is an amazing technology and can be used to really grow and maintain the open Web. By promoting irresponsible uses of the technology, The Pirate Bay is harming the open Web and ruining BitTorrent for the rest of us.
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The open Web is a “global public resource”
The Mozilla Foundation has, as one of its principles in its manifesto, this statement: “The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.” Let’s keep it that way and protect the open Web.
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What is Twitter good for?
So what is Twitter good for given the relatively low, meaningful engagement? The answer is probably “not much” if Twitter’s value is the extent to which it sends traffic to what you tweet about as opposed to focusing attention on itself.
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Open source WordPress app on all platforms is good news for the open Web
An open source WordPress app on all platforms is good news for the open Web in a time when there seem to be more high walls around platforms.
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The Web we need to save
The Web is under constant threat from closed platforms which are becoming increasingly popular as publishers and other content creators look to those captive markets to distribute their work. There is a greater Web we need to save, the open Web.
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The web was built by hand
I’ve been a Firefox fan since Firefox was in pre-1.0 beta. Even though it isn’t my primary browser at the moment (wait 5 minutes, my defaults can change without notice), I still love what it stands for and the work the Mozilla Foundation is doing. This video nicely encapsulates that mission: I love this idea…
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Google Reader is closing down and taking more of the open Web with it
Google Reader, visually, is awful but its value is not its interface but what it does. Google Reader is the feed synchronisation engine that powers many popular feed readers and enables users like me to follow a variety of terrific blogs. It isn’t the only way to keep up to date on what is happening…
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