1. From the Information Super Highway to the Cloud
Mark Frydenberg Bentley University Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

3. The Journey Travelling the Information Super Highway
The Internet and the World Wide Web
Web 2.0: What Happened?
Web 3.0: Are We There Yet?
Conclusions

4. VOIP (Voice Over Internet)
Static Content
Text
Documents
Images
Hypertext/
Hyperlinks
HTML
A Culture of Participation
Blog, Collaborate, Comment, Connect, Contribute, Rank, Share, Tag
Non-Browser
(Mobile or Desktop)
Apps
APIs
Internet Protocols
SMTP ( Transfer)
Web Applications
Browser Technologies for a Rich User Experience
HTML 5
CSS
AJAX
jQuery
Flash
Silverlight
Create, Publish, Share Content
Blogs
Wikis
RSS
Social Networking
Social Bookmarking
Tagging
Collaboration
Search
FTP (File Transfer)
VOIP (Voice Over Internet)
Web 1.0
Web 2.0
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer)
XHTTP (structured data)
World Wide Web
Non-Web Internet Apps & Services
TCP/IP (Packet Transfer)
Internet Applications and Services

5. Web 2.0
“… the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. 
Chief among those rules is this:
Build applications that harness network effects in order to get better the more that people use them.”
Tim O’Reilly
Dale Dougherty, 2005

6. http://rossdawsonblog. com/weblog/archives/2007/05/launching_the_w

7. Is social networking the last innovation of the Internet?
“Twitter [is] an information network rather then a social network. "
Today you have everyone generating data. … These massive amounts of data are perfect for new applications.
Biz Stone, Twitter
Reid Hoffman, Linked In
Evan Williams
Reid Hoffman

8. social media applications
Conversations
Content
Connections
Collaboration
Zoom.it

9. All this data!
500,000,000 5,000,000,000
People
Photos

10. Social Driven to Data Driven
who you know
what you do
what you’re thinking
where you are
analyze, filter, mashup, personalize

11. mashups
With this spotcrime mashup. Open data and api’s make for interesting results.
spotcrime

12. augmented reality
Google Goggles

13. Internet of Things

14. Cloud Computing

15. Cloud Computing Services
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Delivery of a networked computing structure over the Internet Platform as a Service (PaaS) Delivery of a computing platform over the Internet Software as a Service (SaaS) Delivery of software applications over the Internet

16. Web 3.0 ?
What’s Web 3.0 ?

18. Web 3.0 ?
Semantics / Meaning

19. RDF (Resource Description Framework)
Data.gov has over 6 billion triples of data available – creates linked data mashups
During the past year, the US and UK have published thousands of data sets for building mashups.
Opencalais and MusicBrainz
The power of the web is that hyperlinks can link to anything.
Relationshps between things are a graph
Nodes are resources
Relationships are given by URLs
Resource: This is a set of statements and this is an RDF document. Statement: A statement associates a data (a literal or a resource) to the element that uses it. Literal: This is a text. Triple: A complex statement with a subject, a predicate, an object.
RDF is the technology on which the semantic web is based
Everything has a URL (book, person, chair, song)
Facebook uses Opengraph uses the Open Graph Protocol, which uses RDFa and “enables any web page to become a rich object in a social graph. For instance, [...] it enables any web page to have the same functionality as a Facebook Page.”

20. open calais

21. themediabriefing.com

22. Semantic Search Goes Mainstream

24. Inference and Computation

25. freebase parallax
Freebase has information about approximately 13 million entities related by topic such as date or birth, or location.
Bought by Google in July 2010