  In his keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Tim O'Reilly sets off the
punditocracy by insisting that the "war of the Web" is heating
up again. Did it ever cool off?    Those ubiquitous URL-
shortening toolbars are throwing Web addresses behind a cloak of
invisibility, O'Reilly said, and they "don't let you navigate
freely like the Web used to work." With Google's Chrome hurling
itself into the mix, the browser and operating-system wars are
starting to look less "Mean Girls" and more "Aliens vs.
Predator."  But O'Reilly's attitude isn't "bring it on, and get
me a large popcorn with extra butter, while you're at it."
Rather, he hinted that at least in some cases, he's willing to
embrace Google as a big, cuddly, benevolent dictator in the
midst of it all. It's "a monopoly that's a service of value to
users," he said, adding that generally, when Google makes a
product with the primary goal of one-upping the competition--
Knol vs. Wikipedia, Checkout vs. PayPal--it's not a success.
That's probably because, at least right