10 Future Web Trends

We're well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation and syndication (RSS), mashups (APIs), and much more. Currently the Web is still mostly accessed via a PC, but we're starting to see more Web excitement from mobile devices (e.g. iPhone) and television sets (e.g. XBox Live 360). 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... 1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision for a Semantic Web has been The Next Big Thing for a long time now. As Alex Iskold wrote in The Road to the Semantic Web, the core idea of the Semantic Web is to create the meta data describing data, which will enable computers to process the meaning of things. So when will the Semantic Web arrive? Semantic Web pic by dullhunk 2. Nevertheless, AI has a lot of promise on the Web. 3. 4.

March/April 2007 > Features > Information Expert Edward Tufte When information needs to be communicated, Edward Tufte demands both truth and beauty. In 1613, Galileo published Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari, his remarkable observations of the sun. On a fall day, 393 years later, Edward Tufte stands in front of a packed hotel ballroom, holding up a first edition of that book. The room could be in New York, San Francisco, Cleveland or any of the dozens of other cities where Tufte, ’63, MS ’64, teaches his daylong course Presenting Data and Information. Today he’s at the New Haven Omni, just blocks from the Yale campus where he taught for 22 years. Nearly 400 people have come, at $360 a head (half-price for students, and a set of his books is included), to hear the man who has been called the Leonardo da Vinci of data, the Strunk and White of graphic design, the George Orwell of the digital age. In his lectures and books, Tufte invokes a variety of thinkers who have been models of precision, withering analysis and clarity.

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