New Web technologies are being used to change how organizations communicate both internally and as well as with external partners. These technologies have been integrated into an exciting academic discipline that is integral to all business activities. This page introduces a category of articles that will talk about innovative technologies and describe how these powerful systems have fundamentally reshaped modern organizations along with our society. Using online collaborative technologies that were developed in the context of social networking and online communities, corporations are reengineering both internal business processes and those related to customers, suppliers, and business partners. Developing innovative ways to communicate and collaborate can lead to new business opportunities, and new efficiencies. This group of articles investigates the technologies, methods and practices of developing online communities, and how this knowledge and these skills are applied to reengineer business processes, for example how products, services and information systems are developed, and how geographically disperse virtual teams collaborate.�Links may be found here (source): �http://wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Web_Innovations_and_Technology�
WEB INNOVATION 2007 will be the forum for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Entrepreneurs, Enterprise, VCs, Marketing Specialists, Strategists, Consultants and others to understand the WEB 2.0 tools, trends and technologies better in order to harness endless business opportunities.This edition of WEB INNOVATION 2007 will be held in The Grand Ashok Bangalore, from 18-19 December. It will focus on the following:
- Web 2.0 & beyond
- Evolution of the web design and development markets
- Define how the web will drive newer successful businesses in the days to follow
- Innovative Technologies, Models and Methods for building and harnessing the Next generation Web
- How technology and business enterprises could collaborate and harness endless business opportunities, maintain market leadership and competitive edge
- The Trade show floor showcasing the Web 2.0 tools, trends and technologies
Source: http://www.webinnovation.in/
What started out as one of the most mundane way to use the internet has become one of the most prolific aspects of today’s web 2.0 or what we commonly know as the social internet. It all began as a platform on which people simply began keeping tabs of their daily activities that began as internet-based web logs, more and more people came to see it as an acceptable way to go on the net and share their experiences. Sooner or later someone began to see the full potential of the concept and began developing systems that would make it accessible for all. Then came Wordpress and the many social platforms that mainly came from the open-sourced community which was the trend of times to come. Open-sourced systems became more and more fashionable as people became irritated on how big businesses still maintained control over the internet and the tools that worked with them.Social blogging is now one of the most profitable ways to earn money and some social leaders have jumped on the band-wagon whereby all aspects of daily life have a blog that specializes in them. Blogging would remain one of the most prominent children of the social internet and improvements are still on the way for the future of the internet that has a soul, the Social Internet
There are more communications gadgets that are out on the market to date that has the ability to access the internet. From mobile phones, ultra-compact laptops, PDA’s, Laptops and desktops, all of them have allowed unprecedented access to the internet like never before. Imagine stuck in traffic on the bus while you browse and chat with friends, why not call them on VoIP which is steadily gaining ground. All the access technology and all the improvements to the internet but still, the same old problem SECURITY. Identity theft, online fraud, phishing, vishing and many more problems that have to do with security of information personal, corporate or whatever relevance are gaining notoriety and some people are beginning to realize that it was kind of nicer when there was no instant access to the internet, no mobile phones and PDA’s just plain old silence.
Privacy is one of the things we have lost since we all went online and more and more people are beginning to see technology as an invasive presence. most now crave some distance form the frequent calls or email and just want some time away from all the technology to appreciate things we used to love and get bored with. Peace of mind is also out the window for wherever you may be, somebody can get in touch with you, anytime they wish to. It is now a luxury to have time off the net and to just sit down and do plain nothing. I mean, the internet is good (thanks to it, we cannot survive without it in today’s world) but peace and distance away from it would be a nice thing from time to time. Just peace and quiet looking at the stars and the moon at night………..Nahhhhh!!!
Gone are the days of expensive international calls and in with VoIP which is cheaper and better in most cases. Most offices and homes have access to high-speed internet and that being the case, the move to shift to VoIP was only time before it caught on. First utilized by call centers who used them fro their calls and marketing, they used to be so expensive that it was affordable only to large scale businesses. Today, VoIP has evolved from software based to hardware based systems that have boxes loaded with all the necessary software and hardware that makes deployment easier.
Traditional calls used to cost an arm and a leg and is one of the most expensive costs multi-national businesses had to contend with. Being vital for business, they had to deploy expensive PBX systems that allowed more and more people to access telephone systems for their needs. Major hardware and software communications developers are now developing and beginning to deploy digital PBX systems that use VoIP as the communications platform. The days of traditional telephone systems might be numbered but many people don’t mind having both standards in the home for the reliability of the internet is still quite shaky at best. Small glitches in cables and other supporting hardware has the capability to cut off a whole continent and with forecasts by internet experts that the current internet’s design is to max-out at 2010 gives little consolation.
VoIP has made communications faster and cheaper but the underlying technology which is the internet may have to evolve as well to cope with increasing demand and needs.
The internet has invaded our lives and established itself as a daily necessity. Most people have access to the internet either through the home, work or even during play and it has allowed us to gather information like never before. One problem, the internet has grown so much that making sense of all the available information is truly mind-boggling. Do a simple search on a web browser and you get hundreds if not thousands of pages from which only a handful are truly useful for your particular application. The internet used to work with a program called a spider that goes through each and every web page indexing and storing all the information onto a database. That database has indeces as to what they are more likely to be relevant to a search that they are presented accordingly. Newer search engines have evolved into a sort of artificial intelligence that not only matches the words in your search but the manner and way the words co-relate to each other meaning it understands what you mean, or at least it tries to. The problem is that the total amount of information that is stored and added onto the millions of web servers are enormous and trying to handle all of them while dealing with information that is already there is quite next to impossible. Time may come when you get answers that you need as you mean them but for now, we still have to deal with a lot of garbage that finds it’s way though the search engine to your desktop leaving you to sort and determine their true value.
With the new 3G iPhone announced for release by Apple in the next couple of months and the FCC’s approval of their product, the new 3G capable iPhone is giving users and gadget lovers the power to browse the intern et on the go a feature lacking in the initial model. The older iPhone was thicker, heavier and had less capabilities but many are crying foul with the lack of new innovations on the newer release. They have called it a totally newer product with a different packaging but the same overall features in terms of software and other capabilities except of course for the 3G capability.
The Apple iPhone has long been on the list of “wants” for all gadget lovers especially in the many major city’s of the world who were disappointed with the initial gadget’s release. Apple has said that they are in the process of developing more applications and features for later models and that updates would be offered from their website. The new iPhone allows you to go directly to the Apple online store to purchase content, a feature previously unavailable with the older unit that had to be uploaded through a separate PC.
Apple has invested a lot in their gadgets (iPods, iPod’s and others) that they have had to put up new manufacturing facilities just to make them in opposition to the approach of other companies who tend to develop development around their existing facilities to save cost. Their gamble into the new iPhone has been advertised as their drive to take the iPhone into the hands of the masses who previously cannot afford their products. Just hope they make it for the global economy is slowing and it would only be time before it hits home.
Ever since sexual predators started to use social networks for their predatory behavior people have been told again and again that they should be frugal when it comes to personal information due to threats that exists on all corners of the internet. With the pornography ring busted in Australia recently, people still fail to notice that the information the place on the net through the many social networking sites is subject to the eyes of everyone and we do mean everyone.
Imagine a sexual predator in your hometown posing as a person with the same interests as you that you feel you have known her for years, then it turns out to be that the she was a he who has been stalking you online and physically for quite sometime. Do you need the ending? This is becoming more and more common and with younger children starting to use the web as a socializing platform from home the problems that can arise such as the one we discussed in endless. The internet is a dangerous place from the beginning and one of the main problem is that you really never know who you are in a chat session with, for real. They can be anybody and anyone around you or even half way around the world and that is a side of the internet that may need some checking. The transparency of the net that makes it too good to be true (it allows people from all over the world to get information on just a bout anything they fancy) is a double edged sword that can be turned against you in an instant.
Identity theft, fraud and many other crimes have now evolved around the internet and more and more of us are getting victimized. The experts have long advised us that if you deem information to be confidential or that you want to remain anonymous with regards to the use of the internet, best to keep your personal details to yourself and off the net. Even secure and encrypted sites can be hacked and there is no sure fire online security system that can provide total security and anonymity.
The advent of Web 2.0 has become one of the most thrilling developments in the evolutionary history of the internet. The power of the big business was liberated and brought into the hands of the users who now demand more from the web. From total satisfaction to sharing personal thought, the web has evolved so much that it is by no means any similar to the initial design and concept.
Having video blogs and blogs that earn money for that fact is making people realize that the web is more that just someplace to get mp3’s from and that they could now take the web with them all over the place. Ultra-mobile PC’s, laptops, PDA’s and even your lowly 3G mobile phone can now keep you in touch with the internet all the time.
Web development has evolved into an art with advertising now responsible for most profits of search engines and more traditional businesses. From your local hardware tot he furniture shop, they all have in one form or the other a web based ad system that gives them a bit more exposure.
But there is a dark side in all the developments that we have seen over these few years, privacy and identity theft have risen to such high levels that major law enforcement agencies have been forced to create specific offices just to deal with them. The many problems with information (classified and personal) being either lost or stolen have also risen so much that the UK and US government have had to redefine the way information is handled and transported to and from secure facilities. One of the biggest weak points that has continued to plague the privacy issue is that we humans are still the ones responsible for the loss or leakage of such information. Lost data CD’s, complacent behavior that makes us lenient in our handling of information is still one of the most vulnerable points in any IT system.
The world and the internet has truly evolved into something wonderful that allows people from across the world to get hold of information when and where ever they want it. Let us just hope that we, the creators of all this technology does not get obsolete as many of the technologies that have gone before us have faded into history.
WiMax is now under development and is set to be the next generation of wireless communications. WiFi has a limitation of around a hundred meters or so but WiMax goes on for kilometers without much loss in signal strength and quality. many industry leaders such as Motorola, Intel and IBM have research and development programs for the standardization of the communications protocol so the future is sure to be ruled by WiMax networks.
WiMax has a bright future indeed for the introduction of high speed data allows faster internet speeds at farther distances. It also allows telephone service providers to reach farther in areas where the limits of DSL have been reached. Typically DSL is effective for a few hundred meters so placing a WiMax system allows it to reach farther thus resulting in more customers.
The system is still under development and beta phase systems (during hurricane Katrina this was used by Intel to provide the communications backbone of FEMA and other rescue services) and each developer has their own versions and features. Further
development and standardization still have to be addressed to allow full-blown implementation of the system which makes it one of the most promising wireless technologies for tomorrow’s internet users.
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