Friday, April 2, 2010

Is There an ?Internet Operating System??

By Mathew Ingram at gogaom
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When Tim O’Reilly talks about something technology or Web-related, plenty of people listen. After all, he not only runs a media company that publishes authoritative books on technology, he runs conferences about the issues that arise out of technology’s impact on business and society, and he helped popularize the term “Web 2.0,” among other things (although some people would rather he hadn’t). So it’s worth taking some time to look at what O’Reilly said recently about “The State of the Internet Operating System.” In that post, O’Reilly looks at the various parts that make up what he believes to be an operating system for the Internet era.


The idea:


As O’Reilly notes at the beginning of his post, this isn’t the first time he has raised the idea of an Internet Operating System. The first time in print appears to have been 2002, although the author and publisher admits that he forgot to hit the publish button and didn’t wind up actually posting it until 2004. Among other recent discussions of the topic, O’Reilly did a presentation called “The State of the Internet Operating System” in November of last year


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