Opening up the web

Opening up the web  The past, present and future of the  web 

INTRODUCTION 

James Broad  •  Yahoo! is my home?  •  Web Developer  •  Finance.yahoo.com is what I work on  •  Carbonsilk.com – my blog 

How lucky are we?  •  Technological advances  –  Satellite NavigaJon  –  Mobile Phones  •  Finding a new home  •  Share photos with family on other side of the  world – instantly  •  The Internet and its open standards… 

THE WEB OVER 10 YEARS AGO 

Yahoo! 1994 Homepage 

The web back then was…  •  Mostly ‘read only’  •  In 1996 there were ~45 million global users  •  Focused on company websites  •  Homepages  •  Portals  •  Basic web forms  •  Netscape & IE 

ADVANCES OVER THE YEARS 

My, the advances!  •  JavaScript  •  PHP, ASP, JSP, Django  •  XML, RSS, JSON  •  Web Services  •  CommuniJes  •  Tagging & Meta data  •  Web applicaJons  •  The web of today 

The web in 2008  •  The ‘Read & Write’ web  •  Around 1.46 billion global users  •  Open focus  –  OpenSocial  –  OpenId & OpenAuth  •  AdverJsing – contextual & relevant  •  Online Video  •  Maps 

OPENING UP THE WEB 

How do we exploit the web  •  Web Services  •  API’s – YQL  •  Accessibility Standards ‐ WAI ARIA  •  Microformats  •  Cloud compuJng  •  Open Source 

THE WEB FOR TOMORROW 

The future of the web  •  3 billion users?  •  Focused on the user  •  SemanJc InformaJon  •  Device independent  •  Many more devices connected to the web  •  Cloud compuJng  •  More sensors to the web 

James Broad  Carbonsilk.com  Developer.yahoo.com  THANKS! 

Opening up the web

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