1. an introduction

2.  What’s happened in the past
 What’s going on today
 What’s coming up

3. In the beginning

4. The birth
 Telegraph (19th century)
 1962 – 1st n/wk of computers
 Defense projects (DARPANet)
 Connecting major universities
 till 1989 - development of network
components; email; mainframe
 1990/91 – World Wide Web protocol
Birth of Giant… Microsoft!!!

5. Early days of the Web
 Dial up modem
 Static page
 Birth of eCommerce
 Dot-com
 Birth of a Giant ….
Google!!!

6. 500m
130

7. 50m
140m
177m

8. Web 2.0

9. So what is new
 People Participation (twitter: @shiv17674)
 Wisdom of the crowd – crowdsourcing
 Rich content
 Mashups

10. take the good with the bad
 Spam
 Trolling
 Privacy concerns
 Identity theft

11. also making their presence felt
Explosion of
Mobile
Devices

12. The ‘new’ Problem
 Information overload
 Finding what you need
 Knowing what to ask

13. answer this Google!!!
How many people in Asia suffered from
heart attacks in 2010 due to second
hand smoking?

14. Geography
Men, women, children Asian countries
How many people in Asia
suffered from heart
attacks in 2010 due to Year?
second hand smoking?
The Answer

15. Semantic Web
 a.k.a Web 3.0
 Gimmickery??
 What it is - Understanding relationships
between linked objects and data.
 Integrating and combining data from different
sources
 Language for recording how data relates to
real world (NLP)
 Deep understanding of user behavior

16. Giant births in web 3.0?
 No pure web 3.0 companies
 Amazon is leading in user
understanding
 Current players – microsoft/google/apple
 Small companies – e.g. Hakia, netbase,
nextbio, etc.

17. and then what?

18. sources
 Facebook stats:
https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
 Twitter stats: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html
 Web 2.0 overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
 Semantic web - http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
 From semantic web (3.0) to WebOS (4.0):
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/from-semantic-web-30-to-the-
webos-40/4499
 Emerging tech in college:
http://www.convergemag.com/edtech/6-emerging-
technologies-that-will-impact-college-campuses.html
 Augumented reality -
http://www.se.rit.edu/~jrv/research/ar/introduction.html
 Gesture based computing (MIT) -
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/gesture-computing-
0520.html

19. Keep surfin’