Brief outline of where the web has been, how it has moved on and how the web should look in years to come

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

2. INTRODUCTION

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

4. 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…

5. THE WEB OVER 10 YEARS AGO

6. Yahoo! 1994 Homepage

9. 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

10. ADVANCES OVER THE YEARS

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

15. 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

16. OPENING UP THE WEB

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

18. THE WEB FOR TOMORROW

19. 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

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