Google retreats back to Web 1.0
In withdrawing its seminal search API, Google signals its failure to emulate the success of Amazon in monetizing API services. Will Google now face up to its true destiny or will it retreat further into Web 1.0 business models?

December 22, 2006 @ 9:56 AM · Filed under Uncategorized
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Grant funds open-source challenge to Google library
The nonprofit Internet Archive announced Wednesday it has received $1 million from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue its effort to scan public domain works for open online accessibility. The archiving organizations Open-Access Text Archive is an open-source alternative to book-scanning efforts like the ones from Google and Microsoft. Internet Archive, perhaps best known for its WayBack Machine archive of Web pages by date–is also an online digital library of text, audio, software, images and video content. Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive are pioneers in this exciting and historic opportunity to create a universal digital

December 22, 2006 @ 9:56 AM · Filed under Uncategorized
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Google Misses Another Chance To Be The Web Platform
A few people have submitted various stories on the web about how Google has killed off their SOAP Search API in favor of their AJAX API, which is much more limited. Some are saying that this more of a business decision than a technical one — in that the new API gives Google a lot more control over how their results get displayed. This seems like a bad decision. One rule of developing products for others to use is that you should never, ever take away features — and doing so to take more control over

December 22, 2006 @ 9:55 AM · Filed under Uncategorized
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