Open Web

José Mota on September 27th, 2011

Adrian Short raises some crucial points on ownership, identity and control on the web. As he says"The promise of the open web looks increasingly uncertain". The question is what can/should we do (if we care about that, of course). It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short This was posted [...]

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José Mota on June 6th, 2011

As Dave Winer writes in the end, it would be better if this was avoided without government intervention, But it’s undeniable that both Twitter and Facebook are getting too much undeserved support for the kind of companies they are, Amplify’d from scripting.com In the United States, the media are making a huge mistake re Twitter [...]

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Another worth read on why we should be aware of the current “assault” on the open web and the efforts to take back control from users and into the hands of communications, media and publishing corporations. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com Too often, we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. That could happen with the [...]

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José Mota on November 19th, 2010

I wish more influential people engaged in the fight against the “closing” and “controlling” of the web. Amplify’d from www.scientificamerican.com The Web as we know it, however, is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted [...]

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