Balasubramanian V Informatics Centre, BDU WWW – Past, Present and the Future

WORLD WIDE WEB The "Thirty years ago, we couldn't know that something called the Internet would lead to an economic revolution." Barack Obama FEBRUARY 2011

WORLD WIDE WEB The Actually, we had some ideas about that... Tim Berners-Lee WEB INVENTOR AND W3C DIRECTOR HTTP or HTML ?

Topics of Discussion WWW and the TransformationsTelevisionMobileGamingPublishingGovernment DataSocial Networking

Transformations

OPEN WEB PLATFORM Web pages are more beautiful, interactive, intelligent HTML5 provides cross-browser interoperability and all major browser vendors plan to support it Simplified data integration Numerous devices A platform for innovation, consolidation and cost efficiencies. W3C is shaping the future of global business.

WEB IS CENTRAL The ‣ Accessed by billions ‣ In many languages ‣ (UNICODE – தமிழிணையம் ) ‣ Vital for information sharing, entertainment, education, commerce ‣ Common, pervasive, and interoperable ‣ Internationalized ‣ Widely used by developers ‣ Linked sites and linked data - URL USAGE TECHNOLOGY

TELEVISION Goodbye TV, hello multi- platform multi-media delivery and interaction. INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION

WEB TRANSPORTS AND ENHANCES TV The ‣ Analog-to-digital conversion is nearly complete ‣ User generated content commonplace on Internet – karthik subburaj, balaji dharanitharan ‣ Convergence has started, but where will it take us? – Discussion Question. Remember vaiyapuri’s question to vivek in 1997 ? ๏ User content and premium content ๏ How much integration of Web content into programming? ๏ Internet, wireless, or conventional distribution ๏ Device: TV, laptop, handheld ‣ Different stakeholders have different perspectives ๏ Traditional broadcast ๏ Telecoms ๏ Content providers ๏ New entrants (youtube, netflix, hulu, pandora, hotstar...) ๏ Device manufacturers

WHAT'S ON TELEVISON The role of W3C HTML5 (Canvass, Drawing, 3D, Video Tags) CSS3 SVG Graphics Widgets Device APIs and Protocols (DAP) Codecs Security Privacy Accessibility

NEXT GENERATION PRIORITIES FOR TELEVISION Multimedia, multi-device delivery and interaction Dual screen scenarios – World Cup for you, Nathaswaram – Vani Raani for her/him – Chota Beem – maybe! Adaptive streaming of content Enhanced viewer experience – you decide. Home networking – Remember Viswaroopam ? E-commerce (example: social networking and shopping during program – tablemate?)

Recommender systems and collaborative filtering. (Youtube, Amazon..) Action spotlights

MOBILE INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION The Open Web Platform is the new mobile operating system.

Handheld Devices Smartphones and tablets outsold desktop and laptop computers. There are more Smartphones in the U.S. in 2020 than people! The phone in your pocket has more programmable memory, more storage and more capability than several large IBM computers and better than some supercomputers of 1980’s. The need for Mobile first and Device Agnostic Web Design.

WEB IS THE PREMIER PLATFORM FOR DIVERSITY OF MOBILE SPACE The ‣ Focus of last several years has been the Mobile Web Initiative ‣ Increasingly, the same web, independent of device, processing power, screen size, etc. ‣ Location-based applications ‣ A platform for Web Applications, not just Web browsing – widgets, commerce, entertainment... OLA, UBBER.... ‣ App Distribution ‣ More diversity of device types ‣ Greater degree of globalization of the Web HANDHELD INTELLIGENT DEVICES ARE UBIQUITOUS BUT NOW THIS PLATFORM IS DRIVING NEW CAPABILITY

From the dawn of civilization until 2003, humankind generated five exabytes of data. Now we produce five exabytes every two days via handheld devices and the pace is accelerating. Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google © 2014 Advanced Performance Institute, BWMC Ltd. All rights reserved.

Selfie Digital Images Kodak / Konica Picasaa / Instagram / Flickr / Pinit. Vinton Cerf’s Recent Statement – Digital Dark Age

WHY MOBILE IS ON THE MOVE AT W3C Mobile Web Initiative HTML5 SVG Graphics Device APIs and Protocols (DAP) Privacy Accessibility The role of W3C

Responsive Design Storage Platform Issues Action spotlights

GAMING The gaming industry seeks full feature app development platform for distributed and social games. INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION

WEB IS FOR MASSIVE MULTI-PLAYER GAMES ON ANY DEVICE The ‣ Popularity of Web has driven web-based games ‣ Social networking has changed the types of games that are played on-line

NEXT GENERATION PRIORITIES FOR GAMING ‣ 3D ‣ Web performance ‣ Consistency of implementation across platforms ‣ Drive hardware enhancements implementability of spec on hardware ‣ Augmented Reality – Sony – Microsoft – Playstation – Xbox Kinetic – Candycrush – Farmville – Occulus - ‣ Offline cache; tools for visibility into resources

WHY W3C IS A PLAYER IN THE GAME INDUSTRY HTML5 DOM Scalable vector graphics (SVG) CSS 3.0 Security Geolocation Audio APIs The role of W3C

Zyanga! Social / Ethical Issues Farmville, Candycrush, Gun Shoots Action spotlights

PUBLISHING The Web is a full-featured, multimedia publishing ecosystem INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION

WEB HAS TRANSFORMED PUBLISHING DOCUMENTS, DATA The ‣ Convenient access ‣ Varied delivery models – slideshare, kindle, soundcloud... ‣ Linked data INDUSTRY LEADERS HAVE LONG LEVERAGED THE WEB FOR PUBLISHING

THE BIG NEWS AT W3C IN DOCUMENTS AND DATA HTML XML Semantic Web SVG Graphics CSS XSL The role of W3C

NEXT GENERATION PRIORITIES FOR PUBLISHING DOCUMENTS AND DATA The Zoho Google Docs, Gdrive, Skydrive

Massive Open Online Courses

Online Learning

Access to Research Data Shodganga SUDOC (SUDOC Catalogue) - France Universities - DART - Europe (DART-Europe E-theses Portal) DATAD (Association of African Universities) -

Access to Research Information – Now and then... Growth rate of publications – a case study of BDU. 9kbps – 1 Gbps – 14 – 1400 computers – priceless laptops, wifi... Action spotlights

GOVERNMENT DATA The Web is increasing government transparency, efficiency, and lowering costs. INDUSTRY IN TRANSITION

WEB HAS IMPROVED GOVERNANCE The ‣ E-Governance – VAO’s to get into cloud computing! ‣ Linked government data a major theme due to public service nature ‣ Accessibility is key as the Web replaces paper forms ‣ Digital access is a “right” not a privilege ‣ Social networking has impact on politics in many countries GOVERNMENTS WORLD-WIDE ARE PUBLISHING THEIR DATA IN AN OPEN FASHION

Net Neutrality. Cybercrimes (DRDO) Content – Gender Determination Advts. services – Public Action spotlights

Social Networking – Web 2.0 Like, Share, Tweet, Comment... A NEW INDUSTRY

From webmasters to common man Content Creation (Blog, Video, Microblog, Viral) 0% Technical Expertise Social medium - #kuttythala #ABD #methane Open and Transparent Content Crowdsourcing Real-time Search Privacy – Impersonation – Content Violation

We have more……….. Google processes 20 PB a day (2008) Facebook / Twitter has 25 PB of user data + 15 TB/day (4/2009) Whatsapp, Twitter eBay has 6.5 PB of user data + 50 TB/day (5/2009) Flipcart, Jabong, Yepme!

Don’t be Evil. Search History Google knows me more than my wife/husband. Digital Tracking (Smart Cards) Social Graphs

Addresses Geolocation Status in FB Mumbai Incident London Riots Visa Denial USA’s NSA – Watch Out! Action spotlights

WORLD IN TRANSITION The Web continues to change commerce, governance, leisure, education, relationships,...

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