Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Online business and web in 2007

2006 has been the year of the social networking.Myspace, Youtube, Facebook has been the outstanding success stories. However the prediction that the net is going to change everything proved wrong until now. Web 1.0 was the first phase of the web-when we used it as little more than a vast library and efficient messaging system. We surfed from website to website and sent emails to each other. But now we are in the era of web 2.0.A new architecture is emerging, which allows people to connect with each other in revolutionary ways.RSS –a format used in publishing on the web that allows users to see when new content has been added –continued toinch towards the mainstream. Yahoo integrated RSS into Y! Mail Beta and Microsoft integrated it into Internet Explorer 7. Sites like Wikipedia, MySpace, YouTube, Skype, Flickr and Second life are all part of the same trend. The zenith of this social networking craze was probably Google buyingYouTube for $1.65 billion. Hybrid web and desktop applications came into play a lot more this year. For example the New York Times Reader, which was built using Microsoft WPF technology. Adobe’s Apollo platform and Laszlo’s Rich Internet Apps platform were also noteworthy. All of this is but the precursor of Web3.0,when the architecture will become yet more sophisticated-search engines will no longer list data; they will answer your questions. More powerful systems could act as personal advisers in areas as diverse as financial planning, with an intelligent system mapping out a retirement plan for a couple for instance, or educational consulting, with the web helping a high school student identifying the right college. We will soon switch from a web of connected documents to a web of connected data. Example: Look for the brand new way of getting all the Music, Games, Ringtone, Movies, TV Shows, and Software Applications you could ever want or need without having to use a "peer to peer network" or "file sharing application".

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