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Understanding the Network Effect (...more)
Time for a proper post on Network Effects. A network effect occurs when the value of a good or service to a potential customer is dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service. Equivalently,...
September 25, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Chapter Two: a messy tangle of relationships at CERN (...more)Chapter two might seem detail-oriented and circumstantial, but it is necessary to describe those challenges we spoke of in the last post, and to suggest a means to overcome them. Research on this scale was so expensive that it had...
September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Weaving the Web - Chapter 1 (...more)Weaving the Web (WTW) is a rare book written by a rare individual. To grasp what you're reading, the story of the Web's invention, the describing of the Web's essence and potential by its creator, you might have to change...
September 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Privacy, Security, Freedom, & Big Brother (...more)In chapter 11 of WTW, TBL takes up several issues of privacy online. Here is a classic case of the ever present need for balancing the two-sided coin of freedom and control. Nothing but full publicity and total anonymity, too...
November 4, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
TBL on Social Issues (WTW ch. 10) (...more)Though he's alluded to many important implications of the Web throughout the book, TBL waits until Chapter 10 to begin a direct treatise on its important social implications. And though he's writing in 1999, the concerns he has remain, to...
October 28, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Ch 6,7,8 Progress is made (...more)Chapter 6: TBL places the Web in the Public Domain and makes the web a truly open universal information space. Anyone who says that a commons kills incentive to innovate now has the Web's example to reckon with. Chapter 7:...
October 14, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Web's Network Effect (...more)The early phases of the Web tell an interesting story of coordination and growth. The design principles of the Web conceived of an open universal information space but it was only through hardwork and a careful balancing of freedom and...
October 7, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Chapter Two: a messy tangle of relationships at CERN (...more)Chapter two might seem detail-oriented and circumstantial, but it is necessary to describe those challenges we spoke of in the last post, and to suggest a means to overcome them. Research on this scale was so expensive that it had...
September 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Weaving the Web: Forward, Chapter 1 (...more)Weaving the Web (WTW) is a rare book written by a rare individual. To grasp what you're reading, the story of the Web's invention, the describing of the Web's essence and potential by its creator, you might have to change...
September 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Mind Analogy (...more)You may have heard the term collective consiousonous. It is tempting to make a comparison between the internetworking of minds and machines and the wiring of our own brains. Computers, it could be said, provide the brain and cortex, the...
February 3, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Understanding the Semantic Web (...more)The Semantic Web is a term used to describe an effort by TBL's W3C to put data inherent to our digital world into a mutually-understood machine-readable format. This refers also to data which describes offline physical-world objects like buildings, cars,...
January 29, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Enhanced communication through shared knowledge (...more)TBL (WTW p. 162): "When I proposed the web in 1989, the driving force I had in mind was communication through shared knowledge and the driving "market" for it was collaboration among people at work and at home. By building...
January 29, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Layers (...more)In chapter ten TBL begins his treatise on the social forces of the web. The Web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and...
January 27, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Netscape's early model (...more)Near the end of chapter TBL describes how Netscape (formerly Mosaic Communications) chooses to deliver their super-charged web browser (redubbed Navigator). Rather than shrink-wrap and ship it, Netscape released it over the Internet. And rather than charge for it, it...
January 26, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
TBL places the web in the Public Domain (...more)Near the tail end of chapter six TBL talks about the lesson that the University of Minnesota's (mis)handling of the licensing of GOPHER teaches and the options he has in choosing how the intellectual property of the web could and...
January 21, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
TBL's home page (...more)Almost anything you could ever want to know about the inventor of the web is right here on his home page....
January 20, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Network Effects (...more)Time for a proper post on Network Effects. A network effect occurs when the value of a good or service to a potential customer is dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service. Equivalently,...
January 19, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Checking in with TBL (...more)During one of my daily visits to Scripting News I found this great conversation with web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Look for the two mp3 files that present the audio conversation. UPEI, University of Prince Edward Island...
January 10, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Notes on Chapter One (...more)Keep this excerpt in mind: The vision I have for the Web is about anything being potentially connected with anything. It is a vision that provides us with a new freedom, and allows us to grow faster than we ever...
January 8, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Notes on Michael Dertouzos' forward (...more)The press, radio, and television never got close; all they can do is spray the same information out from one source toward many destinations. Nor can the letter or the telephone approach the web's power, because even though those media...
January 8, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0)
