Open Web
The web felt very different fifteen years ago, when I founded Drupal. Just 7 percent of the population had internet access, there were only around 20 million websites. Google was a private company and social media didn't exist. In these early days, the web felt like a free space that belonged to everyone. No one company dominated as an access point or controlled what users saw. This is what I call the "Open Web".
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
- Section 230: repeal, reform or reprioritize?
- Facebook unfriends Australia
- The long-term, world-changing promise of the blockchain
2020
2019
- Teaching my son how the web works
- The web I want for my kids
- The Open Web can still win
- Why the EU Copyright Directive is a threat to the Open Web
- Pulling the plug on Facebook
2018
- From a world wide web to a personal web
- Making the web easier and safer with the Web Authentication standard
- The data protection challenges of a decentralized, social web
- The letter that released the World Wide Web technology into the public domain
- My POSSE plan for evolving my site
- To PESOS or to POSSE?
- Taking control of my data and social media
- More blogging and less social media
2017
2016
2015
- From B2C to B2One
- The coming era of data and software transparency
- Digital Distributors: The Supermarkets of the Web
- Winning back the Open Web
- The post-browser era of the web is coming
- Content platform + user platform = BOOM!
- The Big Reverse of the Web