The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet. Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.
Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures. Who’s to Blame: Us As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work. by Chris Anderson. ComScore: Android jumps ahead of iOS in total US smartphone subscribers. The 50 biggest tech stories of 2010. Posted Friday, December 31, 2010 3:16PM ET by Gabe RiveraPermalink If the year is winding down, and real tech news is slowing to a trickle, you know it's time to reflect on the past 12 months in tech.
Again this year we crunched Techmeme's historical data, cancelling out the influences of our editors, essentially ranking stories by links and citations, to produce the following quasi-"objective" list of the year's biggest tech stories.