Technology Review: July/August 2008
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The Business of Social Networks
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Web 2.0--the dream of the user-built, user-centered, user-run Internet--has delivered on just about every promise except profit. Will its most prominent example, social networking, ever make any money?
By Bryant Urstadt
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From the Editor
- The Next Bubble
- Are Web 2.0 companies the unlucky beneficiaries of a speculative mania?
By Jason Pontin
Notebooks
- The Web's Dark Energy
- Community policing can help make the Web safe.
By Jonathan Zittrain
- Curating Yourself Online
- What happens when your data is not your alone?
By Esther Dyson
- Wiki 2.0
- The online encyclopedia is only a taste of what's to come.
By Jimmy Wales
Startup Profile
- Clear Calls
- Audience, a California-based startup, has made a noise-canceling chip for cell phones that could also improve voice-recognition systems.
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Essay
- A Messy Art
- Managing the fiddle factor in brain surgery.
By Katrina S. Firlik
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Q&A
- The Future of The Web
- We asked a few technology innovators, luminaries, and users what the Web might be in five to ten years.
By Kristina Grifantini
Photo Essay
- Home Tweet Home
- The ground zero of social networking gone wild is Twitter. We got a look at their offices days before they prepared for a move to a more grown-up space.
By Kate Greene
Reviews
- Your Medical Data Online
- Google and Microsoft are offering rival programs that let people manage their own health information. Do potential users understand the risks?
By Amanda Schaffer
- Brain Games
- Do new controllers that purport to interpret brain activity really work?
By Emily Singer
- Founding Father
- A new book describes the man who created modern venture capital.
By Mark Williams
Hack
- Meraki Outdoor
- Mesh networking repeater for harsh conditions.
By Kristina Grifantini
38 Years Ago in TR
- Community Access
- Robert Fano knew that the true power of computing lay in its ability to connect people.
By Matt Mahoney
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology