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The Open Web is Under Attack

Yesterday, Tim O'Reilly published a provocatively titled post: “The War for the Web." In it he discusses the dangers to the web as an open platform from the attempts by the biggest players to own more and more of the user experience: We’re heading into a war for control of the web. And in the end, it’s more than that, it’s a war against the web as an interoperable platform. Instead, we’re facing the prospect of Facebook as the platform, Apple as the platform, Google as the platform, Amaz...

The Internet Is Not Utilities (As An Investment)

So I am late to this party (because I don’t blog on weekends), but James Altucher’s column “The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment)” is just too tempting an invitation for rebuttal. Fred already provided his take here, stating our (at USV) belief in the transformative nature of the Internet and taking on Altucher’s comments about business models. My own point of departure is this quote from the column:The days of infinite margins, 1,000% productivity gains, and growth of market throughout the...

Defending (Internet) Freedom

I love Italy - for vacations, that is. But the decision by a judge in Milan to convict several Google employees for the posting of a bullying video on Youtube is a serious threat to the potential of the Internet to be a force for freedom. I have been critical of Google many times on this blog, but agree wholeheartedly with their assessment of how troubling this is:European Union law was drafted specifically to give hosting providers a safe harbor from liability so long as they remove illegal ...