Silicon Valley’s war for the mobile web

April 25, 2012 1:51 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

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If you work at a major Silicon Valley tech company and that company isn’t Apple, you’ve got skin in the mobile web game. But advocating for and working on the mobile web is becoming increasingly politicized and divisive.

On the …

Yahoo dives deeper down the Node.js rabbit hole with open-source Mojito

April 2, 2012 8:00 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

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Today, Yahoo is open-sourcing Mojito, a bit of software that uses JavaScript and Node.js to run a single codebase on both the client and server side.

Mojito is one of a few Node-centric projects Yahoo’s been brewing. Collectively called Cocktails, …

The mobile app is going the way of the CD-ROM: To the dustbin of history

November 9, 2011 10:01 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

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“Forget being in love with the open web and all that touchy-feely stuff.”

Jay Sullivan is Mozilla’s vice president of products, and for a spokesperson of one of the open web’s dearest darlings, he’s on a tear.

“If you want …