The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine. Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting. Chris Anderson explains how this new paradigm reflects the inevitable course of capitalism. And Michael Wolff explains why the new breed of media titan is forsaking the Web for more promising (and profitable) pastures.
Who’s to Blame: Us As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work. by Chris Anderson You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. During breakfast you browse Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times — three more apps. On the way to the office, you listen to a podcast on your smartphone.
You’ve spent the day on the Internet — but not on the Web. This is not a trivial distinction. A decade ago, the ascent of the Web browser as the center of the computing world appeared inevitable. “Sure, we’ll always have Web pages. ABC The Drum Unleashed - The imperfect politics of broadband. Find More Stories The imperfect politics of broadband Mark Pesce There's a joke making the rounds today, and it goes like this:"Labor wants to give us South Korea's internet speeds, with North Korea's internet controls. " You want another joke? The Coalition's broadband policy. For a nation which has historically underinvested in its vital national infrastructure (roads, rail, energy, stop me if you've heard this before) even this seems a bit hard to swallow. Yet the Coalition wants to propagate this failed system. This is physics, a subject that shadow minister for communications Tony Smith and Liberal fixer Andrew Robb should really get their aides reading up on, because it's important - even vital - to the understanding of communications policy in the 21st century.
So what's really going on here? This is the key difference between Labor and the Coalition: Labor want us to take out a mortgage and buy a roomy new house - which we'll pay back over the next 20 years. I'm torn. Email Share x Digg. Top 10 YouTube Videos About The Web. Our selection of the 10 most popular YouTube videos about the Web is of course based on page views. But we also filtered the results for videos that are most true to explaining the big-picture version of what the Web is.
The selection includes some of the most creative ways the growth of the Web has ever been explained. The fast paced growth of the Web too often keeps us focused on the latest and greatest, to the point were we lose perspective for how the Web has changed over time. So let's take a step back and get a more culturally-oriented overview of the Web. From a 1969 film about an internet that didn't have a name, to the most recent video on the Future of Publishing - as both nostalgia and analysis, we offer you these videos to help you reflect.
Social media and young adults. By Amanda Lenhart, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith and Kathryn Zickuhr Overview Since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults. As the tools and technology embedded in social networking sites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging ‘macro-blogging’ for microblogging with status updates. Blogging has declined in popularity among both teens and young adults since 2006. 14% of online teens now say they blog, down from 28% of teen internet users in 2006.This decline is also reflected in the lower incidence of teen commenting on blogs within social networking websites; 52% of teen social network users report commenting on friends’ blogs, down from the 76% who did so in 2006.By comparison, the prevalence of blogging within the overall adult internet population has remained steady in recent years. 73% of wired American teens now use social networking websites, a significant increase from previous surveys.
The rise of the web's digital elites. Has the web's potential as a great leveller for the whole world already passed? Ahead of a major series on the BBC about the impact of the web, presenter, social scientist and journalist Aleks Krotoski asks whether the web has already missed its greatest chance. The web is an extraordinary innovation, with the greatest potential to usher in social change since the invention of the printing press or the steam engine. Built upon a technology that is apolitical, unregulated and decentralised, it empowers everyone - men, women, children - to be creators of information, rather than passive consumers.
It is also an enormous library of global consciousness, a digital collection of human knowledge from the past and the present and presented in an easy-to-access format. As a result, we now have the unprecedented power to create our own truth, and share it with everyone in the world. It has ushered in an equality of access that we have never seen before. 'Utopian society' Net hope Human medium. THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2010— Page 2. LARRY SANGER Co-founder of Wikipedia and Citizendium The instant availability of an ocean of information has been an epoch-making boon to humanity. But has the resulting information overload also deeply changed how we think? Has it changed the nature of the self? Has it even — as some have suggested — radically altered the relationship of the individual and society? These are important philosophical questions, but vague and slippery, and I hope to clarify them. The Internet is changing how we think, it is suggested.
But how is it, precisely? In functional terms, being spread too thin means we have too many Websites to visit, we get too many messages, and too much is "happening" online and in other media that we feel compelled take on board. We do? Some observers speak of "where we are going," or of how "our minds" are being changed by information overload, apparently despite ourselves. But we obviously have the freedom not to participate in such networks. The History of the Internet in a Nutshell. By Cameron Chapman If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. However, considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many of us actually know the story of how it got its start? Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.
While the complete history of the Internet could easily fill a few books, this article should familiarize you with key milestones and events related to the growth and evolution of the Internet between 1969 to 2009. 1969: Arpanet Arpanet was the first real network to run on packet switching technology (new at the time). The first message sent across the network was supposed to be "Login", but reportedly, the link between the two colleges crashed on the letter "g". 1969: Unix 1970: Arpanet network 1971: Email. ReadWriteWeb's Top 5 Web Trends in 2009. 99 Resources for Web 2.0 Design. Web 2.0 Badges – A set of free badges to download and use in your own designs. Fresh Badge – Quickly generate your own badge. adClustr – Starburst badges. Deziner Folio – A collection of different badges. BittBox – Free vector badges. Official Seal Generator – An alternative to the typical badge. Photoshop Tutorial – A quick lesson on making your own badge.
Glossy Photoshop Tutorial – Create a glossy badge with this tutorial. My Cool Button – A nice online tool that will help you to quickly create the button that you want. Adam Kalsey’s Button Maker – Simple tool to make your own buttons. Button Maker from Blog Flux – Create your own custom button. Brilliant Button Maker – A similar button maker to the previous 2. CSS Buttons – Choose the text, border, and background. Buttonator – A paid option for creating buttons. RSS Button Maker – The name pretty much says it all. Button Boost – A little bit different than some of the other button generators. Crystal Button – Slick web buttons made easy. Spiffy Box. Icerocket blog search. Twiddla - meeting room.