Archive for the ‘ World Wide Web ’ Category
In case you missed it, an Internet failure has “crippled” most of the Middle East and North Africa. Two undersea data cables have been accidentally cut, causing “severe problems” from Egypt to India. While nobody is yet speculating officially, the economic ramifications could total into the trillions of dollars. Will this lead to mass hysteria? [ READ MORE ]
Don’t look now but 2008 is poised to be the year of the Web2.0 implosion. In brief, consumer confidence is low, retailers are projecting a slow holiday season, Web2.0 is all about advertising… this all leads to one big crash. (Ok, actually, I believe it’s going to be a relatively soft landing in mid-late 2008, [ READ MORE ]
The news is coming fast and furious. I thought the dot-com boom was life at Internet speed, but this is ridiculous. It wasn’t all that long ago that Web2.0 was just a bunch of WYSIWYG tools to ease development of web content. In that respect, Web2.0 did for the Internet what Microsoft Word did for [ READ MORE ]
Web-IV is here. Yes, the messages of the past 6 months combined with the announcements of this past week have signaled that the evolution has completely bypassed Web 3.0 (I always hated that moniker anyway). The Web has skipped a generation. So, what is Web-IV? Web-IV is the ultimate convergence: the Internet the Web the [ READ MORE ]
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