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Environmental Psychology
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Tag Archives: Berners-Lee

Apple is the Medium and the Message

By gtdonovan | Published: 01.08.2010
According to AppleInsider*, Apple has purchased a mobile ad company, Quattro Wireless, for $275M and named Quattro’s CEO as the VP of Mobile Advertising. Apple is now in the hardware business (Macs, iPods, iPhones, etc), the software business (OSX, Safari, QuickTime, etc), the transmission business (iTunes, App Store, MobileMe, etc), and the content business (Quattro [...]
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Berners-Lee on the “insidious” quality of vertical integration

By gtdonovan | Published: 06.25.2009
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, on the “insidious” quality of vertical integration: The Web’s infrastructure can be thought of as composed of four horizontal layers; from bottom to top, they are the transmission medium, the computer hardware, the software, and the content. … I am more concerned about companies trying to take [...]
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outtake: governing the semantic web

By gtdonovan | Published: 08.14.2008
Another outtake from the article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state: In their pursuit of both national and homeland security as well as the creation of new markets, the state and corporations are engaging the free-flowing [...]
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