Is the iPhone Killing the Internet?

If you say that the iPhone is the greatest invention of your lifetime, few would bat an eye. If you stay up all night playing Halo 3 like some deranged supermarathoner bent on blasting strangers a continent away on your Xbox Live, few would question your sanity. But dare to claim that devices like the iPhone and the Xbox are killing the Internet as we know it, you’d be laughed out of town.

But this is the central argument of a new book, “The Future of the Internet–and How to Stop It.” Jonathan Zittrain claims that the very thing that makes the Internet great–its “generative” or innovative nature–is being locked down in a new wave of closed devices like the iPhone, Xbox, TiVo and the OnStar system. Zittrain, cofounder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, claims the Internet’s ability to serve as an open platform for innovation is being undermined by these “tethered” toys that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners.

Article Marketing: What Not to Do

Article marketing can be a balancing act. You have two audiences: human and search engine. To please both, you have to craft your article in a natural, informative way for your humans, with correct placement of well researched keywords for your robot visitors.

100 Killer Web Accessibility Resources: Blogs, Forums and Tutorials

Have you kept up with the Target lawsuit lately? In 2006, a blind student filed suit against the online retail Target presence because he couldn’t gain access to the site. The code and layout prohibited him from entry. That lawsuit didn’t go away, despite the fact that little has been written about it. This month, a Scott Bradner at NetworkWorld wrote that Target’s appeal was denied in a Baltimore court this year and sentiment seemed against this retail giant in its bid to qualify for exemption from Web site accessibility.