Web developers couldn't stop talking about HTML and its evolution during the 1990s. New features were usually tempting, though not always workable, and the Browser Wars meant that vendors competed by providing and copying features. The HTML sta...

Yesterday's Google I/O keynote highlighted the power of HTML 5 to match functionality long experienced in desktop applications. This morning, Google plans to announce an HTML 5-based application - still very much in the early stages of developme...

"Never underestimate the web," says Google VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra in his keynote at Google I/O this morning. He goes on to tell the story of a meeting he remembers when he was VP of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft five years ago. ...

In my talks this year, I have been outlining some of the world's great problems, highlighting some of the things that are being done by technology innovators to solve them, and urging my listeners to "work on stuff that matters." We are in unprece...

With the U.S. now accounting for only about a third of all Facebook users, we are starting to see a gradual shift away from its original demographic of college-age users (18-25): 46% of all users are 18-25 years old, down from 51% in late May. The nu...

So may a thousand actions, once afoot, End in one purpose, and be all well borne Without defeat. (This is the seventh post in a series called "Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between.") Despite all...

Back in August The New York Times reported that the word 'statistics' had replaced the word 'plastics' in the famous career guidance given in the film The Graduate. And more recently the same paper reported that data and its analysis are the future of...

GTFS Data Exchange -- site for sharing the files that Google Transit collects from public transit agencies. This lets third party developers write apps that don't involve Google. Tenureometer -- if you are what you measure, let's build good measures....

Haply you shall not see me more; or if, a mangled shadow. (This post is the sixth in a series called "Being online: identity, anonymity, and all things in between.") One reason Sherry Turkle saw the Internet through the...

Recently, I wrote a post about Government 2.0 predictions for 2010-12, and one of them was that government would "always be on-the-record." By that I meant that the combination of (1) the proliferation of tech-savvy citizens with mobile...