The O'Reilly Radar
summary
Argues the web is fragmenting into platform wars driven by data ownership and API lock‑in, not just browsers. Cites Google shipping free turn‑by‑turn nav on Android, maps and speech built on massive proprietary databases, acquisitions like Navteq $8B, TeleAtlas $4B and an iPhone $99 turn‑by‑turn app to show incumbents lose. Notes countermoves: Red Hat DeltaCloud, OpenID/OAuth growth on TypePad, Google Wave federation. Advises applying the robustness principle: be conservative in output, liberal in input, and do what you do best, link to the rest.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:33Future of the Web
- 5:07Platform War
- 7:26Internet Operating System
- 7:55Data is the Intel
- 10:05Mutually Assured Destruction
- 11:35Free Services
- 13:40One Ring
- 16:14Google
- 18:04Do What You Do
