Netscape Navigator is a proprietary web browser that became popular in the 1990s. On its first press release, it announced that it would be free for download and use to all non-commercial users. However, they changed their policy within two months. By then, only educational and non-profit institutions could use Netscape without charge. Although this was the case, Netscape Navigator was still in the A-list because it made internet surfing a breeze. Most web browsers that time allowed for the display of the page only after the whole web page has been downloaded. One of the important innovations of Netscape was the real-time display of text and graphics as they are being downloaded. Web pages like the Australia business directory and some graphics heavy websites could have been easily downloaded using this browser.

Netscape reached its all-time high in usage share sometime in 1996. However, a competitor, Microsoft Internet Explorer, emerged. Although the earlier versions of IE was found to be inferior and primitive next to Netscape, they soon overrun Netscape sometime in 1997 as they improved in stability. Netscape tried to enhance itself by attaching email, news reader and other functions to its browser, which slowed it down tremendously. Netscape became prone to crashes, and people started to use IE more and more until Netscape eventually stopped developing in 2007. Now that’s a lesson we can all learn from.

Social networking and multimedia sites have come a long way in such a short amount of time. For example, in the beginning there was SixDegrees.com which started in 1997. This networking site allowed its users to create their own profile and add and link to their friends. This gave way to community tools like chat and email messaging. Now there are dozens of social networking sites that feature not only the ability to entertain while maintaining a strong link to people within your network, but also the power to build relations and contacts to those who are outside the network, giving opportunities for businesses and the like to flourish. Although it has never been specified that social networking sites are created to establish small- and medium-sized businesses, these websites are flexible enough in their innovation to accommodate changing and growing needs of users. I personally know of people who owe the success of their fledgling apparel store to Facebook. Orders from all over the country (and sometimes even abroad) kick-off their small business.

People’s creativity and innovations have no limit. And one of the best features any social networking and multimedia site can offer is the freedom for these juices to keep flowing, no restrictions. Links to personal and company domain names should never be an issue either. As some people say, “Websites that work together, end up giving their owners a multi-billion dollar business.”

Is your personal site? Maybe you should consider using your name. Is it a business site? Keep it very professional. Is it just for kicks? Make it FUN! Your site domain should be related to the actual content of the site; otherwise, you are misleading the visitors of your site. Second, choose the extension the site that you fancy. Should it be .com, .org, or something else?

Different extensions say something about the nature of your website, so you must keep in mind that your site’s content has some connection to the domain names and extension. Third, like in all things important in life, you should always K.I.S.S. – that is, Keep It Simple, Stupid! A long domain name will be difficult to remember, thus this can decrease your site’s traffic. Remember that domain names should be short and simple enough for people to recall it quickly. Also, other points to consider: Your website domain name is the primary thing that you must consider because it is the thing that you are going to promote in the future. The domain name should encapsulate the gist of what your website is all about.

There’s something to be said about Timberlake’s “Sexy Back” from two years ago – when half the people were trying to mesh noir and technology together to form some steampunk-ish child, the song (and mostly the video) evokes a wanting for bringing sexy back to technology.

That gives everyone a bit of re-decorating to look forward to – throw out the wires, the dials and the big, clunky forms – leave in the sleek, shiny plastic, brushed metal and the slimmest possible sizes.

This is, to say, in the future, clutter is a no-no, and using walls, tables and other fixtures will act as screens and input devices.

For those planning the transition as early as today, here are a few gadgets, concepts and innovations you have to look forward to, and make space for.
(Most of these are concepts and do not exist yet in reality. It’s a wonder how other people’s imaginations overlap our own desires for the future.)

Multi-Touch Technology – 6 years after Minority Report and we’re still obsessing about re-creating the futuristic interface that Anderton used in the movie – case in point? That video for “Ayo Technology.” (Which, surprisingly, also stars Timberlake.)

The difference of Multi-Touch Technology with similar touch-screen interfaces is that it can accept multiple inputs at the same time. This means multiple fingers = multiple inputs, and it also means that multi-user applications is possible. This is already widely used and may come in a photosensor/screen wall near you. Apple’s iPhone is one example of this – the iPhone uses Multi-Touch scrolling and picture manipulation technology.

Vaio Zoom – While not designed by Sony, this Yanko Design Concept is an interesting piece. What started out as “showing what’s behind the screen” wallpaper series, this concept takes it a lot further by implementing holographic displays over a transparent screen.

Nonobject Behind the Scenes Camera – To help shape what the future will become, Nonobject has dedicated their time to creating fully plausible (and yet currently unbuildable) designs that are created to inspire future tinkerers.
The idea behind the Nonobject Behind the Scenes Camera is being able to take photos from scenes that are both in front of you and behind you. Thing is, how would you take a photo without getting your face, body and hands in the way? I have no clue either.

Proclaim Speaker DMT-100 – These futuristic eyeball speakers just look amazing. With pivoting arms, the “eyes” can be positioned so that the sound waves can travel in different directions, plus, it also helps if you have a space problem and need something that can be neatly tucked into place.

Printer Table – Again, from Yanko Design, this sleek device marries a furniture into something a little more useful. Want that report printed out while you have coffee? No sweat – using this device, one doesn’t need to run to the office printer while enjoying coffee with clients, just load in a fresh ream of paper in the faux drawers … and you’re good to go!

The Colt .45 caliber handgun, the Peacemaker, is the oldest model handgun still in production in the world. Buy one today, and you’ll have the same pistol used by marshals, cowboys, and bad guys of the 1800′s. It was designed in 1872, put into production in 1873, and sold for $17 throughout the United States. Cowboys liked it because it could stop a 2,000 pound raging longhorn dead in his tracks. Marshals and outlaws liked it because it would fire six shots in a row without reloading, and do it accurately. It’s one of the most popular handguns ever invented, and Colt Firearms sold 370,000 of them between 1873 and 1941. It is often called “the gun that won the west”.

What brought it into such demand? Innovative design was part of it. The rolling cylinder working in tandem with the hammer, all on one trigger pull, made the pistol instantly ready for use in any emergency. And the center fire 45 caliber ammunition eliminated many of the slow and often dangerous activities that went along with the muzzle loading pistols of the time. Just as an example, Mark Twain wrote of a six cylinder predecessor of the Peacemaker, the Allen Pepperbox, which used cap and ball ammunition and fired right out of the top cylinder – it had no barrel. “Sometimes”, he wrote of the gun’s tendency to crossfire into the other five cylinders, “the whole broadside would go off at once. And then there was no safe place in the country around except behind it.”

The Colt company remains in business today, still producing its original .45, but continuing to innovate with modern weapons in common use by civilians, law officers, and the military.

1. Spend some time exploring the entries in The Top of the Web to get an idea of some interesting and innovative webs.
2. Information Quality: Quality, Guidelines & Standards for Internet Information Resources, edited by Dr. T. Matthew Ciolek. This document provides pointers to information about good procedures and practices in building Internet-based information resources.
3. APQC: The American Productivity & Quality Center and International Benchmarking Clearinghouse. This resource includes public and membership information about quality and process improvement. -Source

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In today’s world, it is very important to exploit the innovative capabilities of the employees so as to develop new business techniques in the face of modern technological advancements, empowerment of customers, new entrants in the market, shorter life cycle of the products, globalization of the market and geopolitical instability. The development of the innovative capabilities of individuals is the only to sustain an advantage over the competitors.

In every field, the leading company is the seen to be the innovator. Until now, innovation has been considered as some kind of black art. Managers of today’s world still lack the metrics that are required to take informed decisions about the innovative programs. There are some metrics that have developed for the development of new product. But these metrics are very limited. Managers are not fully equipped with the right metrics to measure the innovativeness of a particular program.

There are quite a few reasons that support the importance of innovative metrics for the development of a company. Firstly, they help the mangers to come up with an informed decision that is based on objective data. This is valuable because certain projects might have be long term and might also have risks attached to it. Also metrics affect behavior of the employees by aligning goals and actions that are in the best interest of the organization or company.

Most of the companies that measure their innovativeness do so with the help of Research and Development or by product development metrics. These might be useful but are limited in their scope as they are not capable of measuring the overall effectiveness of the innovations on the company. While paying attention to technological development, often innovation related to business concept is neglected.

There should be a framework for the selection of metrics that can help the mangers to track the success rates of innovation in the companies. These metrics would be helpful for the senior executives to assess the innovativeness of the company which will combat the dangerous strategy decay that afflicts the business of a company. Strategies might decay due to various reasons and hence innovation is the key of success for any company.

Companies that are not able to innovate for themselves must learn to buy it. For example, if company’s main product is out of demand then it can buy a lesser company whose products are still in demand. However, this innovation strategy is good only for a short term. In order to innovate things by themselves, the companies should have a balance between investment in the current business and innovation. The company should also assess the capability of the company to turn its resources of innovation into business opportunities. Also the leadership of the company has to be assesses in terms of its supportiveness towards any innovation.

Innovation metrics is important, because it is not really possible to manage something by measuring it. Innovation metrics is a tool to motivate the managers and leaders of the company to embrace innovation and give it priority. The goals of innovation need to be communicated and rewards for achieving milestones should be set. This helps in the acceleration of the pace of ideas that can be implemented. Innovation metrics can be applied in various fields in the company including process, planning and people.

The last entry for this month’s web innovations blog is the Apple TV being an all around device for us to be really entertained within the comforts of our own home. We can hear music using the Apple TV and watch home made videos, and also scan through pictures using the chic device. Ain’t that impressive? It sure does.

But what’s lacking in this device is that for a device to be an overall home entertainment device should have the function of other gadgets like being able to play with DVDs that you bought, although it is possible with the remote disc feature, but it consumes a lot of energy when you do that. And there are other devices in the market that gives the consumers other features like the Xbox and the Playstation 3.

Although it really sucks that there are some flaws or there are lacking points in the Apple TV, I am really hoping and hoping hard that the people at Cupertino will do something and make this product THE Bomb for the ultimate entertainment experience.