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Web 3.0?

Published by Sean on February 14, 2008 1 Comment |

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web3.0
The website that sparked my thoughts on this is here. It’s a kinda Web 3.0 website, using this I have to admit I got hit by the immediate “this is quiet cool” thought, but after moving the Cow and trees around for a while I realised the whole thing is pointless. Which got me thinking into Web 3.0. With all the operating systems taking flashy over speed and everything just increasing in better design over usability will Web 3.0 be more usable than Web 2.0 or will it just be flashier? Do we really need the Internet having more pointless flash? I’d really like to see some other Web 3.0 proposals!

The founder and CEO of Netflix Reed Hastings said:

Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.

Going by that comment the answer to my question would be that the internet is going to take flashier over usability.

Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google has the answer I’m hoping web 3.0 to be:

Web 2.0 is a marketing term, and I think you’ve just invented Web 3.0.

But if I were to guess what Web 3.0 is, I would tell you that it’s a different way of building applications… My prediction would be that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they’re very customizable. Furthermore, the applications are distributed virally: literally by social networks, by email. You won’t go to the store and purchase them… That’s a very different application model than we’ve ever seen in computing.

Anyone got any thoughts on what they think Web 3.0 will be like, or even when?

Tags: Internet, web 3.0.

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Science Week: Invention of the future.

Published by Sean on November 14, 2007 0 Comments |

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WiFi
Today’s task to write about is what invention would you want to see most in the future? For me it would have to be Free Broadband! I would love to see free DSL / Wireless [the later a more reasonable option] from companies like Google or Microsoft come into Ireland. Kilkenny are of course already thinking about it, so, hopefully it comes in and becomes nationwide!

Tags: free, Internet, science, week, wifi.

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Invention: The Internet

Published by Sean on November 14, 2007 2 Comments |

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The Internet
Science week are having a great blogging competition, so thanks to being notified to Damien Mulley I figured I might aswell participate!

My Favorite Invention from my childhood: The Internet

The Internet was created back in 1983, seven years before I was born! Growing up I always had access to the internet and it consumed vast amounts of my time, starting with “The Computer Training Center” in Thurles, Co. Tipperary that was run by my mother. Obviously I have more than surpassed the old PITMAN qualification. The Internet has to be my favorite invention and even today it still is!

One billion people use the regularly use the internet, from its origins as ARPAnet [Advanced Research Projects Agency network), a US military network it is now a worldwide communication and money making device. The first use of TCP/IP happened in 1983. The Internet is basically a worldwide, publically accessible series of interconnected computer networks! Of course where would the internet be without domain names and ip’s? And that’s where ICANN comes into play (”Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers”) a globally unified namespace (i.e., a system of names in which there is one and only one holder of each name) is essential for the Internet to function.

Of course we have progressed way more now, with the Internet as a major factor in not only work, but in mobiles, VOIP, file sharing and email. The internet is improving in certain aspects each day and it’s another reason it’s my favorite invention, it never gets boring!

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The Internet on One Page!

Published by Sean on October 23, 2007 0 Comments |

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An interesting little thing I came across today is the whole internet on one page basically to quote from the webiste:

It’s a map of the entire Internet. At the moment we’re displaying the owner of each IP address (grey boxes), and which IP addresses are listed on the Spamhaus XBL blacklist (red dots), but we should be able to show other things in the future.

Can’t explain it better than that! Go check it out at The Whole Internet!

Tags: address, Internet, ip, one page, Website.

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FireAnt - Internet Television

Published by Sean on September 27, 2007 0 Comments |

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An interesting service I’m only learning of now is FireAnt, which is basically Internet television. They have a huge amount of channels already:

FireAnt has 22,353 channels and 1,322,794 episodes, and adding more each day!

Looks like a good service hey? But not only that, if this becomes more popular [and it is legal] will standard TV stations broadcast through this? BBC are currently using it for a few channels as well as Sky News. I’d like to see some popular series start to use this, there is no reason why they couldn’t make money from advertising still. Target the new generation, most of the young - middle aged people now spend more time online than watching TV. Of course another positive point for this is people would down TV Series from Bittorrent…less! Certainly one to watch, then again it could hit the deadpool before any of that happens, out of interest does anyone use FireAnt on a consistent basis? More importantly, what do you personally think standard TV Stations would take up on this?

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The Eircom Hotspot Logo

Published by Sean on September 13, 2007 7 Comments |

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Eircom Hotspot

Seriously, does it remind anyone else of the RSS icon? I was walking past a bar today and saw it on the window. Literally stopped dead in my tracks wondering why the hell they were advertising RSS, and more importantly what feed? I’ve become to accustomed to the little RSS logo now.. Damn..

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Tags: Humour, Internet.

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Save the Internet!

Published by Sean on August 16, 2007 0 Comments |

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Net Neutrality, a problem? Of course! However, there is a few flaws in this, if we really wanted a “Neutral” net, some of us wouldn’t be able to get faster broadband than others! However thats not the case is it? But if you take the case of having to pay ISP’s so that your website loads faster or actually loads at all! Ridiculous! Its amazing what power hungry companies can come up with these days really! Typical if it was to start somewhere it would start in the USA!

Tags: Internet, Video.

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