The Web’s Missing Interoperability – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Truly unlocking competition in tech means increasing interoperability; an absolutist approach to privacy is doing the exact opposite.

The Web’s Missing Interoperability – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content The Web’s Missing Interoperability Tuesday, March 2, 2021 It was 2004, and Tim O’Reilly needed a name for his new conference, and so “Web 2.0” was hatched in a brainstorming session devoted to finding a name. A year later O’Reilly would flesh the concept out with his definitive 2005 post What is Web 2.0 , but given the fact so many Web 2.0 applications were about creating platforms that were then made valuable with user-generated content, it feels appropriate that O’

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