Web Still in Early Days, Tech Leaders Say
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The Internet is only in its early adolescence with a raft of improvements on the horizon, and the venture capitalists who helped fund the early boom are opening their wallets again, technology industry leaders said on Monday.
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Election Day is less than two weeks away, but so far technology has yet to make more than the occasional cameo appearance on either presidential candidate's priority list. That's not proving to be good news for tech executives. -washingtonpost.com
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It's ironic that Microsoft could help further cement its dominance in the browser market by joining its largest rival in an effort to support web standards. &nbsp;At the same time, that act would go a long way towards improving the web in general for developers and users alike.
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Webmasters that stick to the old ways and focus entirely on Google are missing out on a lot of search traffic these days if they are not also well ranked by Yahoo and MSN.
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Peer-to-peer networks are here to stay, and will be exploited by big companies soon, say industry experts.
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The average person in the Western world takes the Internet for granted, yet fewer than 20 percent of the 6 billion people living on this planet have access to it. Web-enabling 50 percent of the world&#39;s population by 2015 may sound ambitious, but that&#39;s AMD&#39;s goal for its 50x15 initiative, which will stress the use of alternative sources of sustainable, affordable power.
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The group-messaging application Twitter still hasnât broken into the mainstream or become a to-die-for tool for the youngest early adopters.
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Using the Web on most cell phones has tended to be a balky, awkward experience, reminiscent of what the Internet was like on computers in dial-up 1995. So a handful of startups are trying to make it much cooler.
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The inventor of the World Wide Web told a technology conference yesterday that making the Web more useful hinges on a familiar challenge: getting the players
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Today's Web businesses say they're building on a strong foundation and don't fear a bursting bubble.
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Mozilla Corp. is gung-ho on support for offline applications, but it's not committed to using the Google Gears technologies in the next Firefox, an executive of the open-source developer said.
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com September 20, 2004, 7:32 AM PT. There&#39;s no doubt the Internet will continue to make its mark in the world of business and technology.
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com October 6, 2004, 3:40 PM PT. There&#39;s no doubt the Internet will continue to make its mark in the world of business and technology.
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As far as keeping their customers satisfied, Web portals, search engines, and news and information sites in the U.S. continue to improve but still have work to do, according to a report released Tuesday.
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As an impressive roster of technology industry celebrities gather at this week&#39;s&#160;Web 2.0 Summit&#160;in San Francisco, all eyes are on emerging opportunities for Internet companies.Experts point to online video, mobile Internet services, social networking, and enterprise adoption of advanced Web technologies as areas that are ripe for further innovation and capitalization.At the event, CEOs, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs will offer their views, in keynote speeches and panels, on a myriad of topics, both specific to their businesses as well as applicable to the Internet market in general.The lineup of speakers includes CEOs like News Corp.&#39;s Rupert Murdoch, Microsoft&#39;s Steve Ballmer, Facebook&#39;s Mark Zuckerberg, eBay&#39;s Meg Whitman, Viacom&#39;s Philippe Dauman and AT&amp;T&#39;s Randall Stephenson.Still, by now, the term&#160;Web 2.0, once synonymous with bold innovation in online services and applications, &quot;is getting a little tired,&quot; said industry analyst Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence.&quot;It has always been an elusive term, but now it is very mainstream. It&#39;s widely used and the features that were characteristic of those early Web 2.0 companies are now widely adopted,&quot; Sterling said in a phone interview, referring to things like content tagging and sharing, blogs, wikis, and syndicated feeds.While receptive to the possibility that new, fresh ideas may come out of the conference, Sterling wonders how much the economic uncertainty in the U.S. is affecting the spirit of innovation so emblematic of the Web 2.0 era.On the other hand, Tim Draper, founder and managing director of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, sees big opportunities in the application of Web 2.0 technologies in large organizations, particularly in areas like hosted software, project management and communication, and networking.&quot;All the applications that have driven the enterprise over the last client server generation will be renewed with Web 2.0 applications that will replace or enhance those applications. Big opportunities [lie] here,&quot; he said in an e-mail interview.Opportunities also exist in the adaptation of online services to mobile devices, as demand for accessing these services from cell phones continues growing strongly, he said.Draper is also confident that players in the online video space will find business models that will satisfy the video creators, artists, and the providers of online video platforms, like Google&#39;s YouTube. &quot;Entrepreneurs are honing in on models that work,&quot; he said.Meanwhile, Andrew Parker, an associate analyst at venture capital firm Union Square Ventures, has great faith in online services that, with permission, monitor users&#39; activities and, based on that data, personalize their offerings.&quot;I call this set of services &#39;implicit Web services&#39; because they involve implicit data collection instead of explicit data entry,&quot; he said in an e-mail interview. &quot;I think we&#39;ll see more valuable implicit web services going forward.&quot;Some big vendors are taking advantage of the conference&#39;s popularity to announce new products and partnerships. Among them are:-- Hewlett-Packard, as part of its Print 2.0 initiative to improve printing from Web sites, will announce new relationships with large Web publishers, like Disney.com, Microsoft&#39;s Windows Live Spaces social network and blogging service, Yahoo&#39;s Flickr photo sharing site, and the popular Graffiti application for Facebook.--&#160;MySpace and Skype are partnering&#160;to let MySpace members make free voice calls via the MySpace instant messaging service. The new service, called MySpace IM with Skype, will integrate MySpace&#39;s IM service with Skype&#39;s Internet voice communications services, and will be generally available in November.-- Fast Search &amp; Transfer will unveil Fast Active Mobile, a mobile search and personal recommendations platform that wireless carriers can implement to offer these services to their customers. Fast Active Mobile will build a profile for every wireless subscriber, taking into account their searches, product views, purchases and other activities and information.-- NewsGator Technologies, an enterprise RSS vendor, will announce Social Sites, an add-on to its RSS Enterprise Server, designed to enhance Microsoft&#39;s Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by making it easier to discover what colleagues within the organization are doing.The Web 2.0 Summit ends Friday.
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InfoWorld - Technology may update and improve at a staggeringly fast rate, but some tech stories always seem to remain relevant no matter what new developments arise -- or even because of new developments.
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Europe remains a vibrant centre for web technology development, a conference in Paris is hearing.