I first heard about the “World Live Web&# when my son Allen dropped the phrase casually in conversation, back in 2003. For example, we could search in real time, but search engine indexes were essentially archives, no matter how often they were updated. Search not only needs to be up-to-date, but up-to-now. MORE >>

have been gently ranting about this for some years and I back searched my blog and came up with this post from May 2003 People are people - not things! By David Gurteen Victoria Ward recently emailed a bunch of people to ask the question "What do you reckon the best pithy read on social capital is?" They are like oil and water. MORE >>

Often user interaction is provided – the user might type a term into a search widget, for example – and often some form of processing is requested at the remote website. Veldanda, 2003) Even as I write, development of high-bandwidth videoconferencing technology continues; we have an ‘Advanced Collaborative Environments’ in our own building. MORE >>

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said “Every two days we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.” When I’m researching a specific topic, I turn to other sources to pinpoint what I’m looking for: Searches on Google, Wikipedia, TED talks, YouTube and the knowledge of friends. Everyone’s connected. MORE >>

That last link goes to a piece David Weinberger and I wrote in 2003, to as little effect, I suspect, as @Man’s piece had in 1997. Searching for @Man is Michael O’Connor Clarke ‘s last blog post before falling ill in June. The Web as we know it today was two years old in June 1997, when the page below went up. Thanks. MORE >>