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Why Is the Web the Way It Is Today? Publish Date: Dec. 15, 2005
In what direction could the internet have gone if it were not for the FSF/GNU movement and how would the internet have looked today? Tim O'Reilly offers his perspective.
What Is Web 2.0 Publish Date: Sep. 30, 2005
Defining just what Web 2.0 means (the term was first coined at a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference ), still engenders much disagreement. Some decry it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, while others have accepted it as the new conventional wisdom. Tim O'Reilly attempts to clarify just what we meant by Web 2.0, digging into what it means to view the Web as a platform and which applications fall squarely under its purview, and which do not.
Books That Have Shaped How I Think Publish Date: Jul. 7, 2005
In 2004, I greatly
expanded and updated this text for the print piece, Tim O'Reilly in a Nutshell .
Here are a few of the books that have played a large role in my life.
Is Perl Still Relevant? Publish Date: Jul. 7, 2005
With the emergence of .NET, J2EE, Python, PHP, et. al, has Perl lost its niche as a scripting glue language? Tim O'Reilly comments.
Get Your Hands Dirty! Publish Date: Jan. 21, 2005
January 2005. Hackers of all stripes refuse to just take what they’re given. They’re driven to remake it, and getting there is more than half the fun. In the latest O'Reilly catalog, Tim writes about the host of new books and products within that celebrate the hacker impulse. We've got the information you need to hack, remix, and master technology at home and at work. So go on, get your hands dirty!
Pick the Hat to Fit the Head Publish Date: Oct. 27, 2004
October 2004. Larry Wall once said, "Information wants to be valuable." The form in which information is presented contributes to that value. At O'Reilly Media, we offer a variety of ways for you to get your technical information. Tim O'Reilly talks about some of them in his quarterly letter for the O'Reilly Catalog.
Technology and Tools of Change Publish Date: Aug. 13, 2004
Building the next generation of technology won't be easy, and will require developers, entrepreneurs, and the customers they serve to learn new skills. O'Reilly has a collection of new and favorite tools for building the future, including a new "Technology & Society" book series, a new "Web 2.0--Web as Platform" conference, and a new print-on-demand, custom books service called SafariU.
The Architecture of Participation Publish Date: Jun. 21, 2004
Open Source Paradigm Shift Publish Date: Jun. 21, 2004
This article is based on a talk that I first gave at Warburg-Pincus' annual technology conference in May of 2003. Since then, I have delivered versions of the talk more than twenty times, at locations ranging from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the UK Unix User's Group, Microsoft Research in the UK, IBM Hursley, British Telecom, Red Hat's internal "all-hands" meeting, and BEA's eWorld conference. I finally wrote it down as an article for an upcoming book on open source,"Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software," edited by J. Feller, B. Fitzgerald, S. Hissam, and K. R. Lakhani and to be published by MIT Press in 2005.
State of the Computer Book Market Publish Date: Apr. 16, 2004
We've launched a new market research group at O'Reilly. Its mission is to develop quantifiable metrics for the state of technology adoption. Aided by Nielsen BookScan sales data, which shows us trends in what people are buying, we're able to evaluate trends in technology adoption that should help us do a better job of forecasting technology growth patterns. Tim O'Reilly shares some of the analysis.
Amazon and Open Source Publish Date: Feb. 14, 2004
Amazon realized early on that amazon.com was more than just a book site, more in fact than just an e-commerce site. It was beginning to become an e-commerce platform. Open source has been a key part of the Amazon story, and although Amazon has closed code, it has created its own "architecture of participation" that may be even richer than that of many open source software development communities.
The Future of Technology and Proprietary Software Publish Date: Dec. 23, 2003
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, InfoWorld did a feature on where technology has been and where it's headed: 25 Years of Technology . Tim O'Reilly answered some questions for that piece about the future of technology and proprietary software. Many of his comments were included in the article, but here they are in their entirety, as well.
Did Amazon Listen? Publish Date: Dec. 17, 2003
After all that controversy over Amazon's 1-Click patent, what's this about them receiving a patent for new features on their ordering forms? Tim explains that Jeff Bezos never said he'd stop filing for patents, but that he'd think twice before enforcing them in a potentially offensive way.
O'Reilly's E-Book Strategy Publish Date: Nov. 22, 2003
O'Reilly's e-book strategy is to build a flexible data repository supporting XML web services that will allow us to deliver content into a variety of channels. The O'Reilly Network, which offers online content in bite-size chunks, is the "smaller" part of the strategy; Safari, a database of thousands of books that you can search across, is the "bigger" part.
Are "how to" books archaic? Publish Date: Nov. 4, 2003
A reader asked us about O'Reilly's vision for future books given the rate of change in technology and the growth of the Internet as an information source. Tim says "how to" books will only become more important as the paradigm shift that's taking place in computing leads us into uncharted territory.
