What is the original promise of the World Wide Web ?

Posted by ungraspiness Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:10:00 GMT

(watch the complete interview)

’ Restoring the Promise of the World Wide Web “Commercial aspects of the web have diverted its potential. Firmage wants to untangle the web and inspire young minds,” concludes Doug Fabrizio about his interview with Joe for KUED’s Utah Now. ‘

A very optimistic(and a seemingly very much needed) attempt to bring the internet back in line with it’s original purpose and to lessen the outright commercialization of this important and quite recent breakthrough for us all. However I’m not quite certain how that implementation might pan out for such a project.

What if the web were more like PBS in some ways ? (please come up with something more than suggesting that wikipedia fills this role already).



check out ManyOne Networks / Digital Universe

and more about the guy behind this, Joe Firmage

Readers may recall that there was some controversy around his personal beliefs that he made public back in 1998 shortly after getting very rich from a successful Silicon Valley startup called USWeb. This led to media types calling him the ‘Fox Mulder’ of Silicon Valley.

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flecked

Posted by ungraspiness Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:59:00 GMT

Flektor is really cool. It’s amazing(and really fun) what you can do with 40 minutes and some images:

‘Video game development approach to web app development

Flektor was acquired by Fox Interactive primarily for the great product that they built for personal media sharing. Unlike the more en vogue approach to Web 2.0 development of releasing early (and often times buggy), Flektor took an approach that is more common in the video game development business. Flektor invested time and focus up-front on building a platform (or toolkit) that would enable rapid iteration of the service in the future. ‘

These are the guys that founded Naughty Dog software afterall. They produced such titles as Crash Bandicoot as well as Jak and Daxter using their own platform called GOAL (Game Oriented Assembly Lisp). There’s no real surprise that they could get 20M+ for Flektor in just under a year.

Awesome guys !



Naughty Dog Software and Lisp

Flektor Case Study

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There goes the neighborhood...

Posted by ungraspiness Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:15:00 GMT

...thanks to Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

“THE DALLES, Ore., June 8 — On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing. But it is hard to keep a secret when it is a computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky.”


NY Times article

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