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The War For the Web
The War For the Web
by Tim O'Reilly | @timoreilly | comments: 24 On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference : the link in the posting was no longer active. It turns out that a lot of other people had noticed this too. ...
Nielsen: Facebook Now the No. 3 Video Site
Nielsen: Facebook Now the No. 3 Video Site
newteevee.com — Looks like the sleeping online video giant that is Facebook may finally have awoken. According to Nielsen’s... latest VideoCensus numbers, Facebook jumped to No. 3 behind established video powerhouses YouTube and Hulu in terms of total streams. That’s up ... (more) Nielsen: Facebook Now the No. 3 Video Site
Xbox Connects with Facebook
blog.facebook.com — Games are more fun when played with friends, which is why they are among the most popular... activities on Facebook. We're excited that beginning today the social game experience is coming to Xbox Live, so now you can play Xbox games with your Facebook ... (more) Xbox Connects with Facebook
Facebook confirmed for PS3
Facebook confirmed for PS3
techradar.com — No sooner than Microsoft announces that Xbox 360 gets Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm integration, Sony PlayStation follows... suit – announcing that Facebook for PS3 is set to arrive later this month. Sony's confirmed last week's leaks that Facebook will be incorporated into PS3 via the next ... (more) Facebook confirmed for PS3
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The War For the Web
O'Reilly Media: Mac and iPhoneThe War For the Web by Tim O'Reilly | @timoreilly | comments: 2 On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference : the link in the posting was no longer active. It turns out that a lot of other people had noticed this too. Mashable wrote about the problem on Saturday morning: Facebook Unlinks Your Twitter Links . if you’re posting web links (Bit.ly, TinyURL) to your Twitter feed and using the Twitter Facebook app to share those updates on Facebook ...

The War of Giants – coming to a web near you
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... This has to be one of the few times that I find myself agreeing with Tim O’Reilly but his post today over at O’Reilly Radar touched on something that I’ve been thinking about for some time now. He started out with how Facebook seems to be messing around with links people are posting to their feeds. The short of it is that Facebook was removing the links from the posted URLs. ...

O'Reilly: The Web is at war and it's making me sad
The Social — ... Google as a big, cuddly, benevolent dictator in the midst of it all. It's "a monopoly that's in service of value to users," he said, and said that generally when Google makes a product with the primary goal of one-upping the competition--Knol vs. Wikipedia, Checkout vs. PayPal--it's not a success. That's probably because, at least right now, among all the giant robots stomping about the series of tubes, Google is the one that most resembles O'Reilly's vision of the "open Web." In a blog post prior to his speech he predicted that Microsoft could take over this role. Or not. ...

On the Fight Over Control of the Web
Google Blogoscoped — ... Tim O’Reilly argues that we’re heading for a web war – an ugly fighting over the control of the web, which goes against the web as an interoperable platform: ...

Dealing With Complexity; The End of the Oprah Effect
Inc.com — ... The coming war for the web. In a blog post and a keynote speech earlier this week, Tim O'Reilly, the publishing entrepreneur and tech guru, warns of an impending "war for the web." O'Reilly observes that the dominant companies--Facebook, Google, and Apple--have made moves that attempt to wall off their offerings from those of other companies, which could make it more difficult for startups to gain traction and could eventually stifle innovation. "[I]t is becoming clear to me that we are heading into a bloody period of competition that could ...

A Poor Man’s App Store?
AndroidGuys — ... Most of those reading this blog already know that, but we may not realize what a fundamental difference it is. Tim O’Reilly made the distinction well in a recent post about threats to the web’s openness: ...

A Poor Man’s App Store?
AndroidGuys — ... Most of those reading this blog already know that, but we may not realize what a fundamental difference it is. Tim O’Reilly made the distinction well in a recent post about threats to the web’s openness: ...

A Poor Man’s App Store?
Planet Android — ... Most of those reading this blog already know that, but we may not realize what a fundamental difference it is. Tim O’Reilly made the distinction well in a recent post about threats to the web’s openness: ...

Alt.CES: Nexus One on Tim O'Reilly's Radar
MAKE Magazine — ... There will be many posts focusing on the look, feel, and features of the Nexus One, so I'm going to focus on what Android's latest incarnation says about the competitive landscape - what I've elsewhere called the war for the web. Android vs. iPhone is one important front in that "war." ...

The Tuesday Signal: Birth of Another Orifice
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... My partner in Web 2, Tim O'Reilly, has framed this discussion as a simmering "War for the Web." I think he's framed it right: everyone now understands that the web is *the* platform for business, and many are now busy applying very old school business models to this new platform: control distribution, control content, control identity, control any place where value accrues. It's the orifices all over again, with Apple leading the way. ...

Friday Signal: The Web Gets Its Wisdom Teeth (We Hope)
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... As these MOLRS develop, any number of companies (both web native and pre web) are battling to control them, in particular their chokepoints - the mobile platforms, location services, identity services, social graphs, payment systems, and distribution channels. Read Tim's "War for the Web" piece for more on this. It's a struggle for positioning, dominance, and market riches. In fact, it's exactly this battle that we intend to make the focus of the Web2Summit this year, as we're at a key point in the architecture of the Internet - will services "lock in", or will they connect? ...

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