How Apple and Google will kill the password. Opinion January 29, 2011 07:55 AM ET Computerworld - Imagine sitting down at a public PC, surfing the Web, visiting Facebook, checking your online bank account and buying something on Amazon.com -- all without entering passwords or credit card information. It gets better. You get up and leave without even logging out. Some shady criminal type sits down at the same PC and finds his attempts at cracking your password foiled at every turn. Your accounts can't be accessed because your phone is no longer on the desk. It gets better still. On your way to work, you swing by Starbucks to grab a Trenta Iced Cafe Mocha with whip. Arriving at the office, you sail past security with doors unlocking automatically as you approach them. But what's this? While all this is happening, a co-worker walks in talking smack about the game yesterday -- and the ill-advised bet you lost.
All this has taken place without a single password or credit card. What's wrong with passwords? Why do we need a new ID system? There is No Web 3.0, There is No Web 2.0 - There is Just the Web. Something struck me while listening to Tim O'Reilly's keynote speech at the Web 2.0 expo yesterday: glancing at my notes after he walked off stage, I noticed that his current definition for Web 2.0, is a lot like the definition he's given for Web 3.0.
Based on this, plus past comments from O'Reilly that I dug up via a few web searches, I am forced to one conclusion: Tim O'Reilly, the man credited with popularizing the term Web 2.0, doesn't actually believe it exists. For O'Reilly, there is just the web right now. 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 -- it's all the same ever-changing web. Let's first take a look at Tim O'Reilly's widely used and accepted compact definition for Web 2.0 circa 2006 (way, way back in the dark ages of a year and a half ago): Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Recently, whenever people ask me "What's Web 3.0? " And he has a point. 10 Trends in '08. One of the benefits of putting together the Ward's e-100 is that it gives us the ability to pinpoint new trends.
And this year, there are several trends that you should know about. We've narrowed them to the 10 that we believe, have the most potential to affect your dealership and how you do business. Much of what we've developed is based on conversations with dealers on the Ward's e-Dealer 100 and industry leaders. But this is sort of a “World according to Ward's,” so feel free to sound off on our opinions. One other note: It is difficult to assign an order of importance to these trends, primarily because it will be relative based on your dealership.
So don't read anything into the order of how we've listed the trends. “New” players threatening to change how used vehicles are listed online. The question is whether Autobytel plans to file similar suits and if so, how will some of the other players respond? Sanity check: 10 trends that will tranform IT over the next five. » 12 predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2008 | Enterprise Web. The worlds of SOA, SaaS, and Web 2.0 have been swirling around each other for a couple of years now and in 2008 we'll finally see these gel into a practical, modern vision of next generation enterprises. And a variety of forces are coming together to make 2008 the year that enterprises refit themselves for the 21st century. The driving forces for change this year will be the aging of existing IT systems, the rise of up-and-coming new approaches such as highly capable new Web-based applications, mashups, collective intelligence powered business software, Web-oriented architectures, and last but certainly not least, social software.
These are providing the raw materials to use upon the freshly cleared canvases many organizations are readying for themselves as many organizations begin to retool and upgrade. Even the IT foundations we've come to get so used to, such as the operating systems we've used for years, have recently evolved and not always in the direction we're going. 1. 2. 3. 4. Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead | CNET News.com. 5 Disruptive Technologies To Watch In 2007 - News by Information. 2007 will be the year when a host of hot technologies which have been percolating around the mainstream rise high on the radar screens of CIOs and IT managers.
We'll look at five of the more significant, including RFID, advanced graphics, and virtualization. 2007 will be the year when a host of hot technologies which have been percolating around the mainstream rise high on the radar screens of CIOs and IT managers. For example, radio-frequency identification, frequently viewed as a standalone tagging technology, will begin to ramp up the data loads IT centers must handle, as the tags become more pervasive.
Web services, long touted as the next big thing, is poised to begin presenting workaday challenges, as managers are tasked with integrated Web-based apps into the enterprise. Mobile security is a no-brainer as a hot technology for the coming year, as far-flung workforces face newer and more troubling threats. Radio Frequency Identification Why now? 1 of 4 More Insights. Best of The Internet Today: Updated Hourly.