Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. It has become an accepted truism of the digital era that social media ...

Today, 30 years on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It’s a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how ...

The World Wide Web Consortium finishes an update to this seminal Internet technology, but with two organizations in charge of the same Web standard, charting the Web's future is a mess. Stephen ...

One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of ...

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Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani and blogger / technologist Anil Dash have created a new site called Makerbase that some describe as the IMDb of web design. Makerbase essentially does for the web and ...

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late ...

It's been more than three years since researchers disclosed a pair of security vulnerabilities, known as Spectre and Meltdown, that revealed fundamental flaws in how most modern computer processors ...