According to a study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, patents may be harming our ability to innovate. Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts, written by Continue reading »

Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are Continue reading »

John Milan wrote an excellent two-part article for R/WW this week, about the future of software. Because it was a very long article - filled with John's trademark nature metaphors

By John Milan. This is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 is here. What will the software solutions of tomorrow look like? They will be forged by four Continue reading »

By John Milan. This is the first in a two-part series. Part 2 is here. What will the software solutions of tomorrow look like? They will be forged by four Continue reading »

Written by Richard MacManus, Ebrahim Ezzy, Emre Sokullu, Alex Iskold and Rudy De Waele. Also John Milan wanted to contribute, but unfortunately got caught up in the Seattle storm - Continue reading »

So Web 2.0 finally goes mainstream.... kind of. Time Magazine has named the Web-powered "You" as its coveted Person of the Year. In the accompanying articles, the term Web 2.0 Continue reading »

Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. Images by Jon Cornforth. This is the second article of a two-part series - see Part 1 here. Turning the Tide Continue reading »

Written by John Milan and edited by Richard MacManus. This is the first in a two-part series. Update: Part 2 is now available. The most insidious thing about global warming Continue reading »

Yahoo has announced an event around Predictive Markets, called confab.yahoo. It's described as an "open micro-conference series" and is being run by Yahoo!’s Technology Development Group. The reason it caught