It seems that the operating system wars must really be over. This article by Erick Schonfeld at Techcrunch reveals what the future may hold.

“The platform wars are over. Long live the Web. That was the basic message delivered by Jeff Huber, Google’s vice president of engineering, in a ten-minute presentation at Web 2.0 a few minutes ago.”

We could all be carrying around iPods with 1 terabyte of storage within a few years, if this article from the BBC is any indication.

“A single hard drive with four terabytes of storage (4TB) could be a reality by 2011, thanks to a nanotechnology breakthrough by Japanese firm Hitachi.”

Victor Keegan’s article for the Guardian, written after his visit to the Future Of Web Applications (FOWA) conference in London recently, reflects on the growing trend of the office less enterprise.

This article from Wired magazine offers information on how to integrate Gmail with your other email accounts, how labels and filters work and how to access Gmail from your desktop.

This article Robots .txt Adventure by Andrew Wooster offers an insightful and humorous look at the state of robots.txt files found on the web today.

This article by Kevin Potts describes clearly how an effective website can improve your marketing and your business in general.

“All the latest and coolest web apps seem to have an API these days. But what is an API? And why should you care?”

Gareth Rushgrove’s article gives a great explanation of - just what is an API?

A couple of years ago we were all using desktop applications to get our work done. Now all you need is a network connection and a browser to do much much more!
This slide show explains how companies are using Web 2.0 technologies to create a truly global, social and efficient workplace.

“The irony is that Web 2.0 has been heralded as the dawn of a new era of community and togetherness. Through the financial eyes of a venture capitalist, this may appear to be true. For the rest of us, what this means is that community is now available to manipulate, choose and consume”.

This article by William Davies The cold heart of Web 2.0 is truly scary and exciting at the same time.

Jessie Scanlon has written a great article for BusinessWeek -
Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards
Jessie clearly describes the business advantages of sites built with web standards and gives a coherent historical perspective on Jeffrey Zeldman’s contribution to why web standards evangelism is still necessary today.