Sarah Palin has been unsurprising in her criticisms of Barack Obama's credentials and policies, fulfilling the traditional role of the vice presidential candidate being the most aggressive and pointed rhetorical attacker in a campaign. But a closer l...

A visualization of the ascent of many of the world's youngest countries showing their independence from colonial powers (British, Portuguese, French, Spanish) from 1800 to 2009. France keeps its yoke on a stunning number of nations until...

I'm here at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC today, my first big tech industry conference in a long time, where I'm also excitedly getting ready for my keynote tomorrow. But one of the things I'm most proud of is that has something of a valedictory feel to...

I love the Internet. I love lots of things that are on the Internet. I have less love for things that want to undermine the Internet. Tim O'Reilly, The War for the Web: If you've followed my thinking about Web 2.0 from the beginning, you...

Humans create the web, but we've largely abdicated the act of organizing web content to software. That could change. Twitter this week made its new Lists feature broadly available. As they've been described, Lists, allow you to enumerate a...

Update: Since this post got a lot more readers than I expected, it's become clear to me that the title was unintentionally vague. I thought it's amazing that a technology I still think of as fairly advanced, virtualizing operating systems on the...