We Need a Sceptic

[Update: some of the links that were below don’t work anymore, so I’ve removed them]

Dead 2.0 is a funny tech blog. The author posts anonym­ously under the name ‘Skeptic’, and enjoys deflating the hype around Web 2.0 startups with posts like ‘Funding the Web 2.0 gravy train’ and ‘Secret to why you should invest in

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Now We Are 2.0

You know we’re in trouble when people start com­paring the Web 2.0 trend to post­mod­ernism. In my general exper­i­ence, it’s a sure sign that the con­ver­sa­tion is about to dis­ap­pear up its own backside. However, praise is due to Dr Paddy Byers who very cleverly teased out some of the links in a piece he

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Yahoo! and China

Wondered about Yahoo! and China? Censored search results? Shopping journ­al­ists to a com­munist state machine?

Here’s what a company spokes­person told me:

“Yahoo! opposes the pun­ish­ment of any person on the grounds of what may be called free speech. We firmly oppose that. However, we have to abide by the local laws of whatever country we

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