Venture investor Chris Dixon of Andreessen Horowitz and others say they are concerned that the increasing use of mobile apps means less investment in the open web, and that this could have a negative effect on innovation. But is that true?…
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British government bets big on open data for growth
The British government is gambling on the idea that greater access to public data will encourage economic growth -- and resurrecting a plan it had previously killed to build a world-leading open data research center.…
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A brush fire has been swirling through the blogosphere of late over whether RSS is dead or possibly dying. But is it actually doomed, or even ailing? Not really. Like plenty of other technologies, it is just becoming part of the plumbing of the real-time web.…
Read MoreBerners-Lee Wants Free, Low-Bandwidth Mobile Data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee today used his Nokia World keynote address for outlining an agenda of increased global Internet access. Berners-Lee called for everyone to have free or minimal-cost, low-bandwidth access to data and alluded that Internet access could be a more important investment than hunger relief.…
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