Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: Democratization of News Media. It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade. It's been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. The newspaper industry has been particularly affected by the Web. Over the past 10 years, news media has undergone a seachange akin to the invention of the printing press in 1440. Just as Johannes Gutenberg's printing press brought books to the mainstream public in the 15th century, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web brought commercial publishing to the people.
The Web has always been a medium where people could just as easily write as read (yes, the read/write Web), however it didn't reach its potential until blogging came along earlier this decade. Blogging Blogging not only allowed anybody to publish easily to the Web, it ended up shaking up the print media world. Blogging began in the 90s as a form of online diary - Rebecca Blood wrote a good pre-history in 2000. Blogging software was one part of the democratization of media. Patent Prowess. Dominating electronics once again are Hitachi, Matsushita, Xerox Corp., and Sony, just as it was in 2006.
Cisco, Nokia, and Motorola remained at the top in Telecom Equipment, and General Motors, Nippnondenso, and Toyota led the way in the Automotive category. These are industries where the barriers to entry are so high that the leading companies change very little year by year. But in other industries, changes can occur rapidly. Medical Equipment/Instruments and Scientific Instruments have seen major changes between 2006 and 2007, while MIT and Caltech have taken over at the top of the universities/education/training ranking. For the first time this year, our scorecard includes Computer Software as a separate industry (previously, hardware and software companies were listed in the same industry).
AOL appears in the scorecards for the first time this year, and the same is true of Apple in the Computer Systems industry. Anthony Breitzman is the director of research at 1790 Analytics. 11 Free Websites To Send And Recieve Large Files Quickly. Free file hosting is not a problem now a days but to find a great high speed website that can help you to send or recieve your large files in an easier is really hard. We also know that people have a love and hate relationship with free file hosting sites. Some file hosting sites are really handy and make sharing data even simpler than sending a file via email while other services spam you with countless pop ups and forced membership options to simply download a file. But we dont want you to worried at all.
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Also having problems with your Gmail access being blocked at work? If you are one of the many people employed in one of the numerous call centres in Ireland there is a good chance that you have no access to your Webmail account. One of the most popular webmail providers at the moment is Gmail, I'll show you how to access it from your work. Most System and Network administrators block access to the Webmail servers at the Http level, that is, they block the address from being accessed via your browser. I'm going to show you how it is possible to access your Gmail anyway, by not using your browser. The first step you need to do is to setup your Gmail account to accept POP3 connections. Open up your Gmail account and got to 'Settings' and then 'Forwarding and POP'. Now you are going to need an e-mail client.
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In order to send a message from one corner of the internet to another, the protocols of communication demand that the whole message be copied along the way several times. IT companies make a lot of money selling equipment that facilitates this ceaseless copying. Every bit of data ever produced on any computer is copied somewhere. Our digital communication network has been engineered so that copies flow with as little friction as possible. This super-distribution system has become the foundation of our economy and wealth.
Yet the previous round of wealth in this economy was built on selling precious copies, so the free flow of free copies tends to undermine the established order. I have an answer. Well, what can’t be copied? E-Government Meets Web 2.0: Goodbye Portals, Hello Web Services. Gartner recently released a couple of reports on how web 2.0 technologies are being used in e-Government. The reports are entitled The E-Government Hype Cycle Meets Web 2.0 and Government and Web 2.0: The Emerging Midoffice. Both are about how modern e-government efforts are moving away from the 'one stop shop' portal approach that characterized early efforts, and are turning more towards mashups and (to quote the first Gartner report) "a number of mostly adventurous initiatives with blogs, wikis or islands in Second Life.
" But it's the ecosystem of Web Services - and the reusability of content and services that Web Services enable - that really excites Gartner about web 2.0 in e-government. Control The 'Hype Cycle' Gartner report makes it plain that Gartner analysts do not consider all aspects of Web 2.0 to be useful in e-government. Wikis, Ajax, virtual worlds and blogs require "control" if used in an e-government context, according to this passage: Don't all IT projects require focus? How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions. Wise Bread Picks Let's face it; no one likes the interview process. Well, certainly not the people being interviewed anyway. You have to be on your best behavior, you only get one chance to get it right, and it's like taking your driving test all over again. Over the years I've been to countless interviews. To get my first job out of college I attended some 15-20 interviews a week.
Whether it was in Britain or over here in the States, the questions never really seemed to change from job to job. Not only that, but the answers to them are usually the same, with your own personal interpretation of course. 1. I'd be very surprised if you haven't been asked this one at every interview. 2. This should be a straightforward question to answer, but it can trip you up. 3. Do your homework before you go to any interview. 4. This should be directly related to the last question. 5. 6. Ok, this is not the time for full disclosure. 7. 8. 9. 10. The answer to this one is not money, even if it is. 11. The Road to the Semantic Web. Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.
John Markoff's recent article in NY Times has generated an interesting discussion about Web 3.0 being the long-promised Semantic Web. For instance, a short post on Fred Wilson's blog had a lot of lengthy comments attempting to define Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. Some people think that the Semantic Web is about AI, some claim that it is more about semantics, while others say that it is about data annotation. All agree however, that we will all be wonderfully more productive and simply happier when it arrives. Lets take a look at the ingredients, definitions and approaches to the Semantic Web so that we can recognize it when it is finally here. What is the Semantic Web? The Wikipedia defines the Semantic Web as a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web. RDF, OWL and the mathematical approach to annotation.
Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach. Summary: The original vision of the semantic web as a layer on top of the current web, annotated in a way that computers can "understand," is certainly grandiose and intriguing. Yet, for the past decade it has been a kind of academic exercise rather than a practical technology. This article explores why; and what we can do about it. Update: Part 2 is available now Top-Down: A New Approach to the Semantic Web The semantic web is a vision pioneered by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in which information is expressed in a language understood by computers. In essence, it is a layer on top of the current web that describes concepts and relationships, following strict rules of logic.
The purpose of the semantic web is to enable computers to "understand" semantics the way humans do. But while the vision of a semantic web is powerful, it has been a over a decade in making. Classic Semantic Web Review The Technical Challenges 1. 2. 3. 4. The Scientific Challenges 1. 2. 3. The Business Challenges Conclusion. 49 ways to build your brand using online marketing. Building a brand from scratch is not an easy thing to do, especially if you are in a market that is very competitive. How does one start to rise above the noise to distinguish themselves as a heavy hitter? What techniques and tricks can you use to reach your brand awareness goals? Below I have outlined some of the most effective ways to build your brand using online marketing techniques. Video Marketing: 1. Create videos that research proves will do well on the sites you are marketing to. 2. 3. 4.Purchase pre-roll or post-roll ads on videos. 5.
Conversational Marketing 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Pay Per Click 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Social Media Marketing 19. 20. 21. 22. Email Marketing 23. 24. 25. 26. Mobile Search Marketing 27. 28. 29. Search Engine Optimization 30. 31. 32. 33 Develop quality internal linking structure. 34. 35. 36. Affiliate Marketing 37. 38. 39. 40. Banner Advertising 41. 42. 43. 44. Application Marketing 45. Contextual Advertising 46. 47. On to offline Marketing 48. . – Joe Whyte. Usability professionals from NYTimes: They Make It Really Work - How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalis. Because of Truemors, I’ve learned a lot about launching a company in these “Web 2.0” times.
Here’s quick overview “by the numbers.” 0. I wrote 0 business plans for it. The plan is simple: Get a site launched in a few months, see if people like it, and sell ads and sponsorships (or not). 0. I pitched 0 venture capitalists to fund it. I recently saw a presentation called Meet Henry and loved it, so I asked its creators, Ethos3 Communications, to help me create a presentation based on these experiences. As part of the growing world of Truemors, there are two Truemors add-ons to announce: Trickler is a standalone application that provides a ticker-tape interface to Truemors. Here’s the bottom line: Whether Truemors succeeds or not, I learned a helluva lot. For not a whole lot of money and time you can get something out there and see if it works. I end with a truism (as opposed to truemor): There’s only one way to find out if your idea will succeed, and that’s to try it, so go for it. Web design and SEO in Canberra Australia.
The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles. We developed these as part of the BBC2.0 project. I’ve been meaning to publish them for a while since they were signed off by the BBC board. They’re perpetually draft. 1. Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. (nicked from Google) 2. The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly. 40+ Ways to Make Money on the Internet - by Dumb Little Man. How to Run a Meeting Like Google. How to Win With Google AdWords.
Most businesses want a cost-effective way to bring in more customers. The challenge is to find prospects who are thinking about your products at the exact time that you reach them. With the advent of Google AdWords, it’s possible to target prospects at the very moment they’re thinking about buying your products or services. If someone runs a Google search on digital cameras, they only see ads for digital cameras.
If someone performs a search on organically grown coffee beans, they only see ads for organically grown coffee. Read on to learn how to maximize your success with Google AdWords. What is Google AdWords? Open up a Web browser and go to the Google website. As participants in what is actually automated auction, each of these advertisers (or Sponsors) is bidding for the keyword "coffee". Find your Niche Often, many companies compete for popular keywords (e.g., coffee). Perhaps our coffee roaster sells shade-grown coffee that protects Central American songbird habitat.
Getting Started. 5 ways to start a company (without quitting your day job) - May. Almost everyone stuck in a cubicle dreams of starting his own business. Here are 5 ways to use your current gig to launch a new venture. (Business 2.0 Magazine) - If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you've always wanted to launch your own startup. According to our research, roughly half of all Business 2.0 readers dream of founding their own companies. Odds are, however, that you're still working for someone else. Maybe it's because you're afraid to give up that steady paycheck.
Perhaps you're simply terrified by the thought of placing yourself at the mercy of greedy investors, cutthroat competitors, and a potentially indifferent marketplace. So we set out to see if we could help. Still, working for a corporation affords access to several things that are vital to a fledgling company: money, customers, market research, personnel. All of them, however, learned to look at salaried life as a springboard rather than a prison. Here are five ways to get started. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Become a Gmail master - Lifehacker. How to Start a Business without Money. Several decades ago, before I got interested in starting businesses, I met a friend who went from being penniless to becoming quite wealthy in a breathtakingly short amount of time.
I asked him what the secret of getting rich was. He said that you should find something that interests you and become an expert. For some reason, he became interested in turquoise and went from knowing nothing to becoming quite knowledgeable about the gem, the various sources, the market, and the players. One thing led to another, opportunities presented themselves and, presto change-o, my friend was showered with dough. When I started my first business, which was an ice cream company, I had no money, I had no business experience, and I had absolutely no idea how to make ice cream.
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