In 2011, I was called to deliver the Future of the Internet, upcoming technologies, career optiions and motivate future IT Professionals

1. INTERNET & BEYOND
Vernon Fernandes
Director, Team Inertia Technologies

2. WHAT IS THE INTERNET?

3. INTERNET (OFFICIAL DEFINITION)
• The Internet is a global system of interconnecting computer
networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)
to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks
that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business,
and government networks, of local to global scope, that are
linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical
networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of
information resources and services, and multimedia content
such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World
Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic
mail.

4. BUT WHAT IS IT TO YOU?

5. CHANGES SEEN ACROSS THE YEARS
• 1998- 2002:Email was the Best Thing in the
World
• 2002-2006: WOW! Instant Messaging!
Chatting!
• 2007-2008: Woohoo! ORKUT Rocks!
• 2008 till Date : I LIKE Facebook!

6. TECHNOLOGY & MEDIUM CHANGES

7. TECHNOLOGY CHANGES –THEN!
• Most sites concentrated on Textual Delivery
Model (see how the site looked like earlier)
• 28.8Kbps Internet Speeds! Handshaking!
• Dial Up Modems!
• Expensive to Surf at Home! Cybercafe Boom!
• ISDN Lines

8. TECHNOLOGY CHANGES –NOW!
• Photos! Videos! Skype Video Chat!
• 2Mbps – 10Gbps Internet Speeds!
• Surf at Home? Why!? I can Surf while Walking, Talking,
absolutely Anywhere!
• Cybercafes! What are they?
• ADSL or Broadband Connectivity for most residential areas
• Dedicated Lines or Leased Lines for Corporates
• GPRS Connectivity
• What an IDEA 3G!

9. MEDIUM CHANGES –THEN!

10. MEDIUM CHANGES –NOW!

11. WEB 2.0 – WHAT, WHERE, HOW?

12. WEB 2.0 – WHAT?
• The short answer, for many people, is to make
a reference to a group of technologies which
have become deeply associated with the term:
blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds etc., which
facilitate a more socially connected,
interactive Web Experience.

13. WEB 2.0 – WHERE?
• BLOGS
• WIKIS
• TAGGING & SOCIAL BOOKMARKS
• MULTIMEDIA SHARING
• PODCASTS
• RSS FEEDS
• SOCIAL NETWORKING

14. WEB 2.0 – HOW?
• Xhtml
• jQuery
• Ajax
• CSS
• Open APIs & Proprietary APIs
• Cross Browser Compatibilities
• W3C Standards

15. SOCIAL MEDIA – IS IT WORTH ALL THE FUSS?

17. Popular Social Networking Sites
• Facebook
• Orkut
• Twitter
• Linkedin
• Google +
• Foursquare
• hi5.com

18. WHY SOCIAL NETWORKS?
• An instant way to be in touch with everyone,
all the time.
• Facebook is the 6th largest Country in the
World!
• Provides a fantastic medium for businesses to
promote their products/services
• You can get the latest information almost
instantly!

19. LETS BREAK IT DOWN
• Sharing of Articles, Links
• Recommending/ “ Like ” ing Something!
• Multimedia & Photos
• Communicating- Text &Video
• Starting Social Campaigns & Going Viral with
it!
– Anna Hazare Campaign
– Save the Tiger!

20. MOBILE DEVELOPMENT- THE WORLD IS SHRINKING!

21. TELECOM IN INDIA
• World's fastest growing telecommunications industry
• 706.37 Million telephone (landlines and mobile) subscribers
• 670.60 Million mobile connections as of Aug2010, growing at 26
per cent
• Second largest telecom network
• Fastest growing telecom industry, projected 1.159 billion mobile
subscribers by 2013
• More Indians access internet on the mobile now than on the PC
• Smart phone penetration in India currently stands at close to 5%
• Expected to grow to 25% of the total handsets in the next 3 years

22. THE WORLD OF MOBILE APPS
• A revolution that was started with the iPhone
has transformed the world of mobiles forever.
• Angry Birds! Perhaps the Smartphone World’s
most favourite Timepass!
• It has made everything available to you,
where ever you are!
• 3 Major Platforms- iPhone, Android & BB
• Nokia will only have Windows 7 Smartphones

23. THE TABLET ISNT WHAT YOU SWALLOW
ANYMORE!
• It took the world by Storm!
• iPad- Yet another Apple First!
• Perhaps the most convenient computing tool
ever
• It is replacing almost all Books!
• Even the Bible….Soon!

24. HARD FACTS THAT YOU HAVE TO SWALLOW!
• Children in UK are no longer encouraged to
write, instead their typing skills are worked
on.
• The Pope, launched the new Look Vatican
Website on his iPad
• Its soon going to be an acceptable norm, that
other than the Church Altar n Lectern , priests
will be allowed to use iPads for all other rituals
& service.

25. HARD FACTS THAT YOU HAVE TO SWALLOW!
• The Rajya Sabha has just announced an
additional Rs.50,000 for MPs to purchase
Tablets, as in the future, all communications,
bills, legislations, etc will only be available on
the WIFI Network.
• This eliminates a huge amount of paper usage,
thus saving trees, thus saving the
environment!

26. MOBILE ENVIRONMENT- WHATS INVOLVED?
• Apps Predominantly built in Java, using Eclipse
• iPhone has its own SDK requirements
• Android has more Open Source Platform, thus
development has been faster and in a short
span of time
• Sites are now also catering to the screen size,
with special displays for mobile and iPads

27. WHAT ARE THE TECHNOLOGIES INVOLVED?

28. HTML & HTML 5
• Making Programming Easier and more
comprehendable!
• No more use of excessive DIVs n Classes
• Introduction of special Tags like < header >, <
nav >, < footer >
• < canvas > element usage will replace FLASH
• Cross Medium Compatible, PC, Mobile, Tablet.

29. CSS & CSS 3.0
• Takes Designing to a whole new Level
• Complete Reduction of Image based formatting! Like
rounded curves for boxes etc.
• Better maneuverability for designers to play with
colors, effects.
• MORE FONTS can be used!
• Larger Typography can be used
• Cross Browser Compatibility now in place with IE 9

30. jQuery
• Helped replace Flash for many simple animations
and interactions
• Part of the AJAX set of tools that have helped for a
better internet experience.
• Helps handle events, has its own ready libraries.
• Less Code, Better Code

31. AJAX
• A group of inter related web development methods
used to create better interactive web applications.
• A combination of HTML, CSS, DOM, jQuery & XML
that come together to give this technology
• Various frameworks are available for the same like
CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Joomla, Eclipse, Ruby on Rails,
ASP.NET MVC
• APIs are now also available that are compatible with
above technologies like Maps, Facebook, Weather,
etc.

32. Jargon that You Will Hear!
• W3C Standards Compliant
• Cross Browser Compatibility
• SEO - Search Engine Optimisation
• SEM - Search Engine Marketing
• SMO - Social Media Optimisation
• SMM - Social Media Marketing
• SME – Social Media Engagement
• Online Reputation Management

33. LETS PAUSE N THINK ALOUD!

34. WHICH IS YOUR PREFERRED
WEB PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE?
JAVA
ASP.NET
PHP

35. WHICH IS YOUR PREFERRED
MOBILE OPERATING SYSTEM?
iOS for iPhones & iPads
Android
Windows 7

36. LETS TAKE A CASE STUDY!

37. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

38. WHAT AN IDEA ..SIR JI?
• 1GB Connection for each household, 10GB for
institutions & corporates, promised by
Government of Goa
• Cloud Computing, Software As A Service
• More Social Interactive Applications
• E-Commerce really taking off in India
• Mobile Devices being the Primary Computing
Medium
• The World is now at your FingerTips

39. WEB HOSTING
WEB DESIGNING
WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
CUSTOMISED SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS
E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS
PAYMENT GATEWAYS
DIGITAL MEDIA MARKETING
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION & MARKETING
SMS & MOBILE SOLUTIONS
MULTIMEDIA SOLUTIONS
TEAM INERTIA TECHNOLOGIES

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