For Entrepreneurs - In Photos: 100 Best Websites For Entrepreneurs. Does the Internet Make You Dumber? The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Ma. There are few people who know the ins and outs of the web as well as Joe Hewitt. For the past decade, he’s had his hands deep in everything from Netscape, to AOL, to Firefox, to Facebook (where he currently works). Hewitt also knows a thing or two about the iPhone. He’s the one who first built Facebook’s excellent iPhone web app (before there were native apps on the iPhone), and then the native app — which is one of the best apps on the platform. So when he rants about something (as he does from time-to-time), people listen. Following Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ post about Flash this morning, Hewitt went on Twitter and started going off with some of this thoughts. So basically, Hewitt’s take is that Flash (and all plug-ins) only exists because the W3C (the governing body for web standards) is too slow to formalize and approve innovative new technologies. 10 years ago we bullied Microsoft into stopping innovation on IE so the W3C could take over.
The core of Hewitt’s argument. Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists. Like Bill Gates, some of author Steven Levy’s original subjects of Hackers are now rich, famous, and powerful.Photo: Carlos Serrao “It’s funny in a way”, says Bill Gates, relaxing in an armchair in his office. “When I was young, I didn’t know any old people. When we did the microprocessor revolution, there was nobody old, nobody.
It’s weird how old this industry has become.” The book I was writing, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, came out just over 25 years ago, in the waning days of 1984. I hadn’t expected to reach that conclusion. But behind the inventiveness was something even more marvelous — all real hackers shared a set of values that has turned out to be a credo for the information age. Stewart Brand, hacker godfather and Whole Earth Catalog founder, hacked even that statement. Video: hackersvideo.com But it was the hackers themselves who inspired a generation of programmers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs — and not just fellow techies. Pages: 1 2345View All. Bump mapping flash.
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