The Search review
Reviews The Search covers the history and future of the ubiquitous search box, from Altavista through Google's IPO and on to the prospects for Tim Berners-Lee's semantic Web. Devotees of Internet arcana will doubtless be disappointed at the lack of...
[November 16, 2005, 12:10]
Browser benchmarks: IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari review
Reviews When Tim Berners-Lee presented his employer CERN with the first browser, WorldWideWeb, to facilitate information flow between the different departments in the European nuclear research centre in Geneva, he little suspected that it would cause a...
[May 23, 2008, 16:40]
Who Controls the Internet? review
Reviews In this excellent history and analysis, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu choose the passage of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which many Internet pioneers viewed as a direct attack on their community. Everyone has their own idea of the moment when...
[September 13, 2006, 9:00]
Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta): a first look review
Reviews Famously, back in 1980, when IBM was seeking an operating system for its PCs, Microsoft bought q-DOS (a.k.a 'Quick and Dirty Operating System') from developer Tim Paterson for $50,000 and called it MS-DOS.
[January 11, 2005, 12:10]
The Cult of the Amateur review
Reviews In a September, 2004 epiphany at Tim O'Reilly's FOO camp, he converted: the internet was the incarnation of the proverbial infinite number of monkeys typing randomly. Keen's argument is simple: we are embracing the 'noble amateur' at the expense of...
[February 1, 2008, 14:15]
The Myths of Innovation review
Reviews Tim Berners-Lee says he had no 'Eureka' moment. The late American talk show host Johnny Carson used to like to ask guests how they became overnight successes. The answers invariably detailed a decade or more of hard work and failed efforts while...
[May 19, 2008, 8:25]
