brainstorms

Thursday December 08, 2005

graham on w2, ajax et al.

paul graham [my favorite computing-industry double of counselor troi] has some interesting things to say about web 20, ajax, google and so on:

Web 2.0 means using the web as it was meant to be used, and Google does. That's their secret. The web naturally has a certain grain, and Google is aligned with it. That's why their success seems so effortless. They're sailing with the wind, instead of sitting becalmed praying for a business model, like the print media, or trying to tack upwind by suing their customers, like Microsoft and the record labels.

[tack upwind: a lovely image. graham always has a certain mix of spunk & bite not to mention grain, if not always enough depth past three pages. horizontal.]