Twines, the Semantic Web Application for exchanging knowledge, has a public twine is for sharing news articles or other information that are of special interest or value in understanding where the Web industry is heading.
see: Twine Web Industry Trends
Note: this Twine is also available via the following rss feed: http://www.twine.com/feed/atom/entries/twine/1hj7rh6g-q4/web-industry-trends/items
A timeline provided by Dipity, and in that case displaying the evolution of virtual worlds:
see the link at: dipity:Virtual_Worlds
In a blog posting, a company doing some website monitoring, has looked at 12 of the top social networks to answer a simple, but highly interesting question: Where are they the most popular?
The social networks they included in this survey were MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, Last.fm, LiveJournal, Xanga, Bebo, Imeem and Twitter.
The results include a number of maps showing the level of adoption of different services around de world.
The conclusion:
As we already mentioned, this survey clearly shows that social networks are truly global affairs. It also shows that the geographic focus varies greatly between different social networks.
Read the post at: Social network popularity around the world; Pingdom AB, August 12, 2008
An interesting blog posting in Virtual Worlds News reporting a conversation with Jackie Fenn, vice president and Gartner Fellow, who has been authoring the emerging trends hype cycle report for 13 years for her take on where public virtual worlds fit in.
So this year we’ve put [virtual worlds] moving down towards the Trough of Disillusionment. The question now is does it pull out of the trough and into adoption or is there another round of hype?”
Read the blog posting at: Q&A: Jackie Fenn, Gartner VP and Fellow, on Public Virtual Worlds and the Hype Cycle; Virtual Worlds News ; August 13, 2008
McKinsey Quartely has published the results of a survey of the adoption of Web 2.0 by the Entreprises
- Companies have adopted more Web 2.0 tools this year than in 2007 and are using them for higher-value purposes, according to McKinsey’s second annual survey on the business use of Web 2.0 technologies.
- Some 21 percent of the respondents are very satisfied with the way their companies use Web 2.0 tools, which are changing management practices and even organizational structures.
- Other companies report that the barriers to adopting Web 2.0 tools include management’s inability to grasp their potential financial returns, unresponsive corporate cultures, and less-than-enthusiastic leadership.
Get the document at: Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise: McKinsey Global Survey Results; McKinsey Quarterly, July 2008
A very interesting article by the editor in chief of the WIRED Magazine
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all
Read the article : Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business; By Chris Anderson; Wired magazine, 02.25.08
The governement can also benefit from new web approaches, as suggested by Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics in this podcast.
Business strategist and author Don Tapscott explains how he is working to create government Web sites intended to get American citizens engaged in democracy. He says the Internet can make government more open, participatory and efficient — and maybe even smaller and cheaper, too.
Listen more at: Government 2.0: Building an Online Democracy, Talk of the Nation, May 20, 2008
OECD is far for being ignorant about the Internet Economy, as you can see in a Policy Brief posted in June 2008.
This Policy Brief looks at likely future developments in the Internet economy, and how all stakeholders can help the Internet to meet the increasing demands made upon it, continue to drive innovation, provide new communications services and platforms, while being secure and respecting privacy.
- Has the economy become an Internet economy?
- How is the Internet evolving?
- How is the Internet driving Innovation?
- How can we increase confidence in the Internet?
- Where do we go from here?
Read more at: The Future of the Internet Economy; OECD Brief; June 2008
In a recent study, completed with IDC, predicts that that in less than five years up to 40 percent of the workforce will be hyperconnected.
A recent survey Nortel Networks Ltd. (NYSE/Toronto: NT) completed with IDC reports that in less than five years up to 40 percent of the workforce will be hyperconnected, demanding everywhere, all-the-time communications. Not only will these individuals be emailing colleagues or using IM while on the go, they will also be tapping into social networks and online communities such as blogs, wikis, and online forums to improve business communications.
This group, called the “hyperconnected,” will be addicted to a variety of technology offerings and, in the future, will demand more high-bandwidth mobile applications like video and Web 3.0 from employers to support their business and personal needs.
The original information: “The Changing Role of the CIO”, Steven J. Bandrowczak, internet evolution, 6/12/2008
No, Facebook is not going in the third place, but is now coming first, as a Media Trend report seems to indicate.
It was sort of inevitable given Facebook’s monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook
officially caught up to MySpace
see the original new here in TechCrunch.
The advent of devices with integrated GPS such as the last version of the Apple IPhone, could represent an important trend, and contribute to make the Web 4.0 (the ubiquitous web) a reality.
Look at the following Video showing Steve Jobs demonstrating an application making use of GPS.
At the Apple WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new 3G iPhone. Jobs shows how an iPhone traveling in a car going down San Francisco’s famously crooked Lombard Street can be tracked as its user navigates the curves.
Craig Roth, a technology industry analyst has posted some thought about the “Next Enterprise 2.0″ in his blog Knowledge Forward:
More specifically in his post “Is There Anything New to Say about Enterprise 2.0?”, May 21, 2008, he writes:
Some thoughts off the top of my head on what goes into “The Next Enterprise 2.0 Presentation”:
Tracking statistics: E2.0 presentations all tend to use snapshots of stats demonstrating pain points or E2.0 adoption. … Top 5 observed blocking factors: Unless you’re ready to hold up a “mission accomplished” banner on E2.0 in the enterprise, you should know by now what’s holding E2.0 back in many cases. … Models: We should have seen enough uses of these technologies by now that certain patterns start to emerge. … Architecture: Again, with more actual implementation experience there should now be guidance emerging on conceptual and physical architectures. … Deflating the bubble: There has been a lot - perhaps too much - excitement and too high of expectations on E2.0 (to say nothing of some revolutionary rhetoric). … Roadmap: You may not be ready to hold up the “mission accomplished” sign yet, but can you now see where we’re headed? …
What then can we expect from the next 10 or so years on the Web? …
Bearing all that in mind, here are 10 Web trends to look out for over the next 10 years…
extract from: 10 Future Web Trends Richard MacManus, ReadWriteWeb, September 2007.
You will find in this article an interesting exchange/discussion related to the 10 Trends mentioned.
To get an understanding of what is “cooking” beyond Web 2.0, have a look at:
Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities.
http://www.calt.insead.edu/eis/WebTrends/2008semanticwebreport.pdf
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