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Ken Leebow WOW! – Wonders of the Web Author, Speaker, TV Personality Qwest’s Incredible Internet Guy Moving Faster Than Ever – Challenges and Opportunity www.IncredibleInternet.com Speed of Technology Change

Simplifying Technology & the Internet

The speed of change has become a defining characteristic of the information age. School of the Future www.microsoft.com/Education/SchoolofFutureVision.mspx

“ We need to create a process to identify these opportunities early.”

-- Philippe Dauman

Viacom’s new head Philippe Dauman

says his goal is to find the next MySpace

or YouTube before the price tag balloons.

Business

I’ve Got a Secret!

“ We rarely simplify things, no matter how hard we try.” “ Gadgets are fun, and they may perform tasks we find beneficial, but they don’t actually simplify our lives: they make our lives more complex.”

Sir Tim Berners-Lee . . . “ I think Web 2.0 is of course a piece of jargon, nobody even knows what it means. If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.” The “New” Internet

The next generation of leaps,

if you will, in technology,

will all come from the fact that

people are always . . .

online

connected

communicating

sharing information

It’s All About We . . . The Fifth Estate

Now, we have the tools to share our. . .

Passion

Expertise

Information

Communities

Collaboration

Communication

Lives – Privacy

And It’s All Converging

Very Quickly . . .

Free

Share

Examples of the “New” Internet

Wikipedia – World Book

YouTube – Boob Tube

MySpace/FaceBook – Water Cooler

Blogs – Traditional Media

Craigslist – Newspaper Classified Ads

Sharing on the Internet

Flickr – Photos

Del.icio.us – Bookmarks

Digg – User Based News Ranking

SecondLife – Our Lives

www.Blaugh.com

Word Processing – Writely

Spreadsheets – Google

Email – Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail

Video – YouTube and many others

Leebow’s Predictions – The Year Of . . .

2005 – Blogs

2006 – Online Video

2007 – Web-based Applications

Everything is Moving to the Web

Everyone’s Got An . . .

. . . Opinion

Push-Button Publishing

Web Site

Reverse Chronological Order

Passionate

Expert

Blog?

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