an introduction

What’s happened in the past

What’s going on today

What’s coming up

In the beginning

The birth Telegraph (19th century)

1962 – 1st n/wk of computers Defense projects (DARPANet) Connecting major universities

till 1989 - development of network components; email; mainframe

1990/91 – World Wide Web protocol

Birth of Giant… Microsoft!!!

Early days of the Web

Dial up modem Static page Birth of eCommerce Dot-com

Birth of a Giant ….

Google!!!

Web 1.0

500m

130

50m

140m

177m

Web 2.0

So what is new

People Participation (twitter: @shiv17674)

Wisdom of the crowd – crowdsourcing

Rich content

Mashups

take the good with the bad Spam Trolling Privacy concerns Identity theft

also making their presence felt

Explosion of Mobile

Devices

The ‘new’ Problem

Information overload

Finding what you need

Knowing what to ask

answer this Google!!!

How many people in Asia suffered from heart attacks in 2010 due to second hand smoking?

How many people in Asia suffered from heart attacks in 2010 due to second hand smoking?

Men, women, childrenGeographyAsian countries

Year?

The Answer

Semantic Web a.k.a Web 3.0 Gimmickery??

What it is - Understanding relationships between linked objects and data.

Integrating and combining data from different sources

Language for recording how data relates to real world (NLP)

Deep understanding of user behavior

Giant births in web 3.0?

No pure web 3.0 companies

Amazon is leading in user understanding

Current players – microsoft/google/apple

Small companies – e.g. Hakia, netbase, nextbio, etc.

and then what?

sources Facebook stats:

https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics Twitter stats: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html Web 2.0 overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Semantic web - http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ From semantic web (3.0) to WebOS (4.0):

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/from-semantic-web-30-to-the-webos-40/4499

Emerging tech in college: http://www.convergemag.com/edtech/6-emerging-technologies-that-will-impact-college-campuses.html

Augumented reality - http://www.se.rit.edu/~jrv/research/ar/introduction.html

Gesture based computing (MIT) - http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/gesture-computing-0520.html

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