Archive for September, 2009

The people-centric web

According to ArcticStartup, the web is at a new crossroad where it is dominated by “dynamic, portable friend lists and non-brand-mediated identities that can be used across a range of standards-compliant websites.” This, according to the article, is in contrast to the “document-centric web dominated by static pages” to which we have grown accustomed. In [...]

September 15, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web  No Comments

Top 5 web trends of 2009

According to ReadWriteWeb, the top 5 trends of 2009 are:

Structured Data – structuring information using Semantic Web technologies and Linked Data
The Real-Time Web – “a new form of communication” that creates an immediate, public body of content and “has an explicit social graph associated with it”
Personalization – “an organization layer for users on top of [...]

September 14, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Real-Time Web, Semantic Data, Semantic Web  No Comments

Highly pliable software platforms with mashups, widgets, SaaS, etc.

Dion Hinchcliffe reports:
We’re already witnessing this [highly pliable software platforms] with the rise of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), cloud computing, enterprise mashups, collaborative intranets that can be maintained almost entirely by workers (Enterprise 2.0), and the growing use of smaller, more granular microapplications such as widgets, gadgets, and visual feeds to combine and connect things together across [...]

September 3, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Cloud Computing, Mashups  No Comments

The atomic nature of the real-time web

ReadWriteWeb reports:

…we can identify that the real-time Web…

is a new form of communication,
creates a new body of content,
is real time,
is public and has an explicit social graph associated with it,
carries an implicit model of federation.

One consequence of the 140-character limit (and a key reason why the real-time stream is so easily adaptable to [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Real-Time Web  No Comments

The business impact of real-time information

Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle write:

…real-time information is having a huge impact on business. When your customers are declaring their intent all over the Web (and on Twitter) – either through their actions or their words, companies must both listen and join the conversation.

September 2, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Real-Time Web  No Comments

Enabling workers with cloud-based services

Aaron Levie suggests:

Cloud-based services are in the best position to enable workers to stay connected at all times on day one. Whether it’s through messaging, conferencing, collaboration or customer relations, businesses on varying networks can now seamlessly interact as if they were in the same building.

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Cloud Computing  No Comments

Mashups defined

Mashups: According to Wikipedia:
In web development, a mashup is a Web application that combines data or functionality from two or more sources into a single integrated application. The term mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Mashups  No Comments

Transformation from page models to real-time streams

Jeff Hanson theorizes:

The transformation that is taking place across the Internet from a page model to a real-time stream model will surely be affected by [the popularity ranking] phenomenon. Enterprises must be ready to embrace this new model and plan their web presence accordingly or be swept aside by the ever-changing waves of popularity. [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web  No Comments

Lifestreaming defined

Lifestreaming: According to Wikipedia:
Lifestreaming is the practice of collecting an online user”s disjointed online presence in one central location or site.
Generally, people”s internet presence are divided among their blogs, social networking sites, bookmarking sites and user-generated content sites (like flickr.com, youtube.com, et al.), [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Lifestreaming  No Comments

Semantic web ontologies

Richard MacManus summarizes a new PricewaterhouseCoopers Technology report:

With the Semantic Web, you don”t have to reinvent the wheel with your own ontology, because others, such as musicontology.com and DBpedia, have already created ontologies and made them available on the Web. As long as they”re [...]

September 2, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Ontologies, Semantic Web  No Comments