THE TEMPTATION, of course, is to sum up the decade in terms of brands. Thus the noughties could be seen as the period of Google’s inexorable rise, of Apple’s metamorphosis into a music and mobile phone colossus, of Amazon’s increasing dominance, of mushrooming user-generated content (Flickr, Blogger) and social networking (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter), of the emergence of Wikipedia as the world’s leading reference work, of YouTube and the BBC’s iPlayer – and of corporate stumbles (Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, innumerable record labels and newspaper groups).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/27/web-goes-mainstream-in-noughties
The noughties have been technologically inspiring and liberating: but the threats to a wired world have also become starkly clear over the past 10 years
THE TEMPTATION, of course, is to sum up the decade in terms of brands. Thus the noughties could be seen as the period of Google’s inexorable rise, of Apple’s metamorphosis into a music and mobile phone colossus, of Amazon’s increasing dominance, of mushrooming user-generated content (Flickr, Blogger) and social networking (MySpace, Facebook, Twitter), of the emergence of Wikipedia as the world’s leading reference work, of YouTube and the BBC’s iPlayer – and of corporate stumbles (Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, innumerable record labels and newspaper groups).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/27/web-goes-mainstream-in-noughties
The noughties have been technologically inspiring and liberating: but the threats to a wired world have also become starkly clear over the past 10 years