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!!!

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, childrenGeography

Asian 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

Keep surfin’