Thursday, October 22, 2009
Firefox’s Crossroads: Cutting-Edge or Mainstream?
John Lilly wants it both ways. Working at Mozilla Corporation since 2005 and as chief executive since early 2008, he helped oversee a remarkable achievement.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Musing About Another Browser, With a Famous Backer
Marc Andreessen’s name is not quite the household word in Silicon Valley it was in the mid-1990s, when he was a wunderkind at Netscape Communications fighting the browser wars against mighty Microsoft. Still, the idea he might get involved in the same market more than a decade later is an intriguing thought.
Friday, July 17, 2009
IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On
Just six years ago, the web was dominated by one browser: Internet Explorer, specifically Internet Explorer 6.
Monday, July 6, 2009
For Firefox, a Challenging Future Awaits
For much of this decade, Mozilla and its Firefox browser were the upstarts, out to beat the big, bad Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and Privacy on the Web
Ever since Netscape started storing cookies in its browsers, there has been a Jekyll-and-Hyde nature to the web. The Jekyll web promised a more personalized experience, with sites serving ads for products and services that you would actually be interested in–ads that are more like useful information and less like glaring interruptions.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
EU Leans on Office Visits, Not Contracts, for Evidence About Intel
Many lessons have been drawn from the U.S. government’s antitrust assault on Microsoft in the late 1990s. Intel’s new scrape with the European Union is likely to spark memories of one of the simplest: don’t put it in writing.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
“Search is a Pencil”
In trying to become the Next Big Thing on the Internet, many Web sites have risen and fallen in the past. This is all a throat-clearing to Think Out Loud about Twitter and Facebook. (Like I’ve been doing anything else lately.)
Friday, September 5, 2008
Does Windows Still Matter?
“Chrome is not going to replace Windows. A computer requires an operating system such as Windows, Apple’s OS X or Linux to make the machine work. It does, however, have the potential to do what Mr. Gates feared: make the choice of operating system less important.”
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Marc Andreessen’s Hidden Hostility to Takeovers
Ning founder Marc Andreessen is already on the record about Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Yahoo: He thinks it will likely go through, and turn out to be a good deal. It’s a remarkably sanguine take for someone who saw Netscape bought and destroyed by AOL. In a thorough analysis for which he dragooned two corporate lawyers, Andreessen elaborates: Yahoo has few defenses, aside from a poison pill, and Microsoft will likely succeed. For all its thoroughness, the analysis is less interesting for what it says about Microsoft-Yahoo than for what it says about Andreessen.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Coming Digital Presidency
Marc Andreesen, the co-founder of Netscape, met Sen. Barack Obama in early 2007. Mr. Andreesen recalls, “In particular, the senator was personally interested in the rise of social networking, Facebook, YouTube, and user-generated content, and casually but persistently grilled us on what we thought the next generation of social media would be and how social networking might affect politics–with no staff present, no prepared materials, no notes. He already knew a fair amount about the topic but was very curious to actually learn more.” As a social organizer and a lover of new technologies, Mr. Obama could be expected to make good use of such tools in getting elected, and he has done so. What may not be as obvious is that Mr. Obama appears to have a keen interest in using such technologies in the act of governing.
Friday, March 14, 2008
There Goes the Neighborhood
Poor Bebo. I feel for the residents of their hip and convivial apartment block. It has just been bought by a slumlord.
AOL–which is paying $850 million for the social-networking site, the other Facebook–is where innovations go to die. Remember Netscape? Bought for $4.2 billion and now dead. AOL bought a mess of advertising platforms–Advertising.com, Quigo, Tacoda–and can’t make them to get along.
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