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Interesting views from Tim Berners-Lee. e.g. on the importants to keep things as data. - ivanandersson

yes, yes. olala. la la. I´m in a good mood it seems - ivanandersson

Beware of "IYHNTHYHNTF" arguments (If You Have Nothing To Hide You Have Nothing To Fear). - ivanandersson

"Microsoft doesn’t have the chops, and anyway, they’re not paying attention. They’re foaming at the mouth over Google. And frankly, despite what they say about embracing the Web, the reality is, when it comes to all things Internet, the Borg still in “fight the tide” mode. Look at their euphoria over Windows 7 — that tells you all you need to know about how they view the world. They are the tech equivalent of the cable guys, still believing that they can protect their castles if they just keep digging bigger moats." - ivanandersson

Good article. The value of good judgement and prudence (mixed with some good plain luck). Some have it, others don't. - ivanandersson

"groundswell" - ivanandersson

"Google’s algorithms are very handy for shopping or entertainment recommendations. But I don’t like it “personalizing” news. Serving readers news based on what they’ve read can lead to a kind of tunnel vision where they’re insulated from the dissenting views and unpleasant truths. Newspapers emerged to serve communities, and communities are inherently hotpots of dissent. Targeting news stories as if they were advertisements runs counter to that important service. I want a news gadget bringing me stories that make me uncomfortable." - ivanandersson

"As DeWolfe found out to his cost, Van Natta’s challenge is to ensure he keeps Rupert Murdoch’s attention and support. The boss has plenty of other worries to distract him, after all: a soft advertising market and the future of his beloved newspaper industry are just two. If MySpace is to recover and prosper, it also needs to deepen its engagement with young internet users. No one, however, matters more than a certain 78-year-old." - ivanandersson

"underwhelmed" - a new word for me - ivanandersson

Google Wave has the potential to become a virtual “town square,” where otherwise separate gadgets applied to content created by journalists and enhanced by the wave’s users can be used to provide an accurate, detailed description of what’s happening locally. - ivanandersson

es, a great product will sell itself. The public will sniff it out and buy it - without the need for advertising. But this is where your argument falls apart: The truth is, most products aren’t that great. In fact, the vast majority of them have become commodity. A Dell is an HP which is no more than a Gateway. Same guts wrapped in an off-white box. Priced within inches. A fast food burger is a fast food burger. (Wendy’s makes a square one, um, brilliant.) Most affordable cars share the same parts and have ever so slightly different body styles. These wonderful products that will doom advertising you speak of, the products that sell themselves like the Apple iPhone and the Prius - are few and far between. Sadly, they are as rare as an advertising creative director with a small paycheck. The unfortunate fact is most products desperately need to be wrapped in something - anything - to make the consumer even notice them. To make people feel like they are “different” in some way. This is where advertising comes in. Creating desire where there otherwise would be none. In a capitalistic society where profit dictates product design, there will always be the need to help products appear - to be better than they are. I wish every company was capable of making breakthrough products that didn’t require an advertising crutch to sell them. But I don’t see that happening anytime soon - ivanandersson

this article is misconcieved. advertsing will never die, it just takes new forms. everything is becoming a medium anyway - the course the music industry is on is instructive - its going from being a product to a medium - and is hoping against hope that an advertising model can sustain it. User reviews drive sales. seeing what other people bought drives sales. Its all advertising. People doing stuff is advertising. If you mean the ad business is in trouble, you may well be right - though i think what will actually happen is that a lot of advertising creative types will end up building their work into products and services rather than ads, but they're still going to be employed. However this is NOT the same thing as saying that advertising will die. In the crappy history lesson you put together you ignored a whole load of fascinating study into the collective identity mass media created, of which advertising is an intrinsic part. Advertisng bad, culture good? If only it were that simple. Advertising IS culture, along with everything else people do that other people bear witness to. Also, you overstate the power of ads - most of the research i've seen shows that advertising is one of the weakest forces in consumer decision making, and was so even before the web revolution. Most campaigns don't even pay back. If all it took to get someone to buy cigarettes was to see an ad, the business would not be struggling for budgets. this seems a bit naive to me, sorry. — simon - ivanandersson

Awesome! - ivanandersson

Now I can understand all those interesting videos in italien and spanish for instance - ivanandersson

Warren Buffett has today about 62 billions. - ivanandersson

Something within the area of nanotechnology, advanced forms of gene therapy, space travels, mining in space etc. - ivanandersson