Oracle To Buy Sun (and MySQL) For $7.4 Billion.
eeeeek – shudders at the prospect of mysql in the hands of the oracle licensing people - note to self. must start working with postgres more. Updated: Less than a month after it walked away form a $7 billion deal with IBM, Sun Microsystems says that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with [...]
5 principles for Web 2.0 success
I found the link I was looking for earlier on twitter. Or at least another post that discusses it. Jyri spoke at #w2e on these five principles, which sum it up very well. 5 principles for Web 2.0 success – Jyri Engeström, Jaiku on social networking sites and social objects, London Geek Dinner 12 June [...]
Backbone Magazine – Defining Web 3.0
Ownership in Web 3.0 isn’t the only thing about the data that will change. According to the inventor of Web 1.0, its structure and meaning will change, too. Tim Berners-Lee developed the protocols underpinning the Web in 1990 when working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). Today, Berners-Lee laments the Web’s one crucial [...]