[okfn-discuss] Web 2.0 Killed the Internet (article)

Mon Jun 9 11:13:16 UTC 2014

On 7 June 2014 06:21, John Baxter <john at jsbaxter.com.au> wrote:

> Interested to hear what others made of this provocative article.
>
> Maybe these ideas aren't new to you but they were to me (and yet seem
> compellingly obvious)
>
> http://aralbalkan.com/notes/how-web-2-0-killed-the-internet/
>
> tl;dr:
> Open APIs (and other 'open/free' trends) haven't really opened anything at
> all, they've been a clever ploy to build closed, privately owned silos -
> undermining openness ('killing the internet')
>

Very interesting. This is something we strongly emphasized quite early on,
e.g. in this post from 2006 entitled "Open APIs Don’t Equal Open Knowledge":

http://blog.okfn.org/2006/09/04/open-apis-dont-equal-open-knowledge/

"Open" APIs really mean nothing - though its a great marketing term.

Rufus

To me the most interesting questions it raises are about governance of tech
> startups / the internet.
>
> (*Disclaimer: Sorry if a repost, I searched but couldn't find*)
>
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