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Since the days when I coded my first reactor [POSA2] back at MIT, I have been convinced of the conceptual simplicity of non-blocking event driven server. Aside not blocking for I/O and being able to scale well beyond polling architectures, …

The release of Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol has spurred renewed interest in the semantic web. I give credit to Facebook for pushing forward an RDFa derived format onto the world wide web. In fact, RDFa is the least interesting part. …

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I keep saying that the web follows the pattern of the fashion industry. It’s about image, it’s about fun, it’s about entertaining. Sure, you can also buy stuff and do useful things. But that’s what you have to do, not …

Sun is changing its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA, as announced in Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog on Thursday 23rd August. There has been a lot of mixed feedback. Most techies and engineers inside and outside Sun are criticizing …

LinkedIn’s CEO Reid Hoffman promised at the end of June to open the LinkedIn platform, very much aligned with Facebook’s publishing its developer APIs, and surely trying to experience some of the same growth Facebook is receiving thanks to …

In July, Nielsen’s NetRatings changed its web traffic measurements to focus on time spent at a given site rather than the traditional page views, and page views per user (PV/UU). Since then, many web 2.0 sites, including communities, gaming, video, …