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THE INTERNET: The next big things, trends and hot internet
technologies in the near future, 2004-2005.
Diving into the Deep Web
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"Those of us who place our faith in the Googlebot may be surprised to
learn that the big search engines crawl less than 1 percent of the
known Web. Beneath the surface layer of company sites, blogs and porn
lies another, hidden Web. The "deep Web" is the great lode of
databases, flight schedules, library catalogs, classified ads, patent
filings, genetic research data and another 90-odd terabytes of data
that never find their way onto a typical search results page.
Today, the deep Web remains invisible except when we engage in a
focused transaction: searching a catalog, booking a flight, looking
for a job. That's about to change. In addition to Yahoo, outfits like
Google and IBM, along with a raft of startups, are developing new
approaches for trawling the deep Web. And while their solutions
differ, they are all pursuing the same goal: to expand the reach of
search engines into our cultural, economic and civic lives."
In Search of the Deep Web
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/09/deep_web/index_np.html
"Yahoo on Tuesday began a systematic effort to draw more content into
its searchable database of Web documents, its latest bid to win Web
surfers from search rival Google.
The Web portal, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., introduced its Content
Acquisition Program designed to index the billions of documents
contained in public databases but that are commonly inaccessible to
search engines, or what's called the invisible or deep Web. To this
end, it has aligned with the Library of Congress, the University of
California at Los Angeles, National Public Radio, the University of
Michigan and Project Gutenberg, among others, to begin seeding its
index with fresh, searchable material for Web surfers' queries."
March 2, 2004 | Yahoo crawls deep into the Web
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5167931.html
Breaking off "pieces" of the Internet to take along:
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"Around the tech industry, companies are working on embryonic versions
of the next-generation world network. It's a priority at AOL. When the
online service looks at its future, it sees itself detached from the
PC ? a brand that transcends any one technology.
An early example is Radio@AOL. It started as 175 channels of
commercial-free music you could hear only when signed on to AOL
through a PC. Thanks to a deal announced in July with
wireless-networking company D-Link, AOL members can now use a wireless
router to get and stream Radio@AOL directly into their stereos without
going through the PC.
The idea, says AOL's Hook, is to let users break off pieces of AOL.
Maybe a user will listen to Radio@AOL through a cell phone or handheld
computer while walking. AOL's photos, e-mail, news and other features
will go through similar transformations. "We want users to be able to
create an ecosystem of devices and put the AOL experience on them,"
Hook says."
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-10-01-cover-web_x.htm
Smart Dust (Dust Inc.)
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"In the last few years, smart dust sensors smaller than a deck of
cards have been deployed in research projects to monitor the vibration
of manufacturing equipment, keep tabs on colonies of seabirds and
measure fine variations in vineyard climates that can make or break a
wine.
Now they're being sold for real. Dust Networks Inc., a chief
developer, said this week that defense contractor Science Applications
International Corp. of San Diego would become one of its first
customers, using the technology for perimeter security systems. A
grocery chain in Minnesota installed the sensors in August to monitor
energy use. A competitor, Sensicast Systems Inc., just announced its
own arrangement to provide sensors to monitor the environment at a
nuclear generating station."
The Details on Smart Dust
http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/04/10/03/bus_dust001.cfm
"A Speck of Communication Power
Each "mote" in the SmartMesh system is really a silicon chip. Roughly
the size of a quarter, the chip contains the circuitry for a tiny
radio transmitter and receiver, as well as proprietary software.
Despite the name, each mote is hardly the size of a speck of dust. To
accommodate an antenna, batteries and other needed parts, SmartMesh
nodes are roughly the size of a deck of cards.
Created by Pister and his team of researchers over the last 10 years,
the software contains the code needed for each smart dust mote to
automatically find and connect with each nearby mote. If one mote
isn't available to pass along information, the software knows how to
instantly reroute the datum to another nearby mote."
Wireless Networks Made of Smart Dust
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/FutureTech/smart_dust_futuretech_040923-1.html
"xRedundant, Multi-hop Routing - Motes communicate directly with each
other, without assistance from a central controller. Each mote forms
multiple, redundant paths with its neighbors and data is automatically
passed, mote-to-mote, along the most reliable delivery path."
Dust Networks | Benefits
http://www.dust-inc.com/products/benefits.shtml
Further Info | Google Search: "dust networks" "smart dust" internet
://www.google.com/search?q=%22dust+networks%22+%22smart+dust%22+internet
The Internet as a Butler
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"What will the world network do for people? One example, culled from
interviews with executives and entrepreneurs across the tech industry,
might be a service we'll call Travel Butler, or TB for short. It
doesn't exist, but services like it are a gleam in the eye of
companies ranging from Orbitz to AT&T.
Let's say it's 4 p.m. TB knows you have a flight scheduled for 6 p.m.
because it regularly prowls the Web sites you use for travel and found
you booked a ticket on Orbitz. TB can tell, perhaps by checking your
online calendar, that you're at a meeting downtown.
The service cross-checks with a map service such as MapQuest to find
the route you'd have to take to the airport. Once it knows that, TB
goes out on the network to monitor traffic on your route ? and finds
the streams of data on the Department of Transportation Web site,
which monitors road cameras and sensors.
TB might see that accidents have backed up traffic for miles. It sends
you a message, which finds you on your BlackBerry e-mail, saying that
to make your flight, you'd have to leave now. TB also shows you an
Orbitz listing of later flights.
You decide to go on a later flight, so you click on the one you want.
TB rebooks you, sends an e-mail to your spouse and contacts the car
service in your destination city to change the time to pick you up."
The Next Big Thing: The Web as Your Servant
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-10-01-cover-web_x.htm
Local Search
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Search comes home as the major search engines move into the "Yellow Pages" market:
Yahoo Local: http://local.yahoo.com/
Google Local: http://local.google.com/
"Google has officially moved local search out of Google labs and into
beta, introducing several noteworthy new features at the same time.
Google's approach to local search involves using yellow page and
business directory information from third party providers, and
integrating it with information about individual businesses from
Google's main web page index. Though the service is still in beta,
Google has promoted it from its relatively obscure location in Google
Labs to its own Local Search URL."
Google Pushes Local Search Into the Limelight
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3327051
"Yahoo has rolled out a feature-laden beta version of its local search
service, sharply upping the ante in the rapidly evolving local search
sweepstakes.
The new service offers similar functionality to Google's local search
beta, but adds a number of unique features that break new ground,
surfacing and aggregating information in interesting, useful new
ways."
Yahoo Targets Google, Yellow Pages with New Local Search
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3389591
Smarter Searching - All The Information That's Fit To Print
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"Google's mission is to provide access to all the world's information
and make it universally useful and accessible. It turns out that not
all the world's information is already on the Internet, so Google has
been experimenting with a number of publishers to test their content
online. During this trial, publishers' content is hosted by Google and
is ranked in our search results according to the same technology we
use to evaluate websites."
http://print.google.com/print/faq.html
And beyond the bare search results, Amazon's A9 takes the concept
several steps further, providing a toolbar with a memory (take me back
to the site I visited three weeks ago), as well as specialized
one-button searching of the Web and Images (licensed Google results),
the Internet Movie Database, Dictionary and Encyclopedia searches,
plus Amazon's "Search Inside the Book" feature.
"A significant extension of our groundbreaking Look Inside the Book?
feature, Search Inside the Book? allows you to search millions of
pages to find exactly the book you want to buy. Now instead of just
displaying books whose title, author, or publisher-provided keywords
match your search terms, your search results will surface titles based
on every word inside the book."
Amazon.com | Search Inside The Book
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/10197021
Encyclopedic Knowledge - The Wiki
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Collective intelligence. "The simplest online database that could possibly work.
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create
and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports
hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and
crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows
the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the
content itself.
Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle
effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any
page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of
the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users."
"On the 27th July 2004, the English Wikipedia alone had 269,000
articles of 200 characters or greater, and the combined Wikipedias for
all languages exceeded the English Wikipedia in size, giving a
combined total of 745,000 articles in 83 languages. The English
Wikipedia alone has now reached 92.8 million words in size,
comfortably eclipsing the largest previously existing encyclopedias."
"There have been 19,829 contributors to all Wikipedia language
editions (8,194 to the English language edition), and 785,000 visitors
read 12.8 million pages per day of all languages (309,000 visitors
request 5.6 million English pages per day). 895,000 edits were made in
June 2004, 237,000 to the English language edition; the ratio of edits
to new articles is roughly 11:1. (All statistics as at Tuesday July
27, 2004.)
Not bad for an encyclopedia which is only three years and three months old."
Wikipedia Size Comparisons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_comparisons
By 2005, Wikipedia is predicted to be one of the top 500 most-visited
properties on the Web.
Predicted average ranking for the month of January 2005: 528
Predicted average ranking for the month of June 2005: 432
Modelling Wikipedia's Growth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Modelling_Wikipedia%27s_growth
Internet Phone Service (VoIP)
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"In less than a decade, voice over IP has gone from a hobbyist toy to
a threat to the future existence of incumbent telephone companies."
Broadband Home Report
http://www.broadbandhomecentral.com/report/backissues/Report0404_1.html
"VoIP takes the voice waves created on calls by people, breaks them up
into tiny packets of digital data, shoots them across a network to
their final destination and quickly reassembles them back into their
original form.
Users are assigned a phone number from their local area, but because
the calls travel over networks instead of traditional copper-wire
phone lines, those users bypass any long-distance costs. They also can
set up their computer or laptop from almost anywhere in the world,
establish a network connection and conduct calls as though they were
still inside their local area."
"Will Stofega, a senior analyst on VoIP services for IDC, another
research firm, says the companies that provide hosting VoIP services,
such as Qwest, SBC or those that resell Level 3's network, will log
$222 million in sales next year and $880 million in 2006. By 2008, IDC
sees that market exploding to $7 billion."
Internet Phone Service IS an Option
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10834~2443271,00.html
Broadband: Integrating Internet and Entertainment
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"Broadband-Home-Network-Enabled Living-Room Device Offers Exciting New
Entertainment, Information and Communications Options for the
Television:
"The new MSN TV 2 Internet & Media Player frees consumers from their
home offices so that they can enjoy Web or PC-based photo slide shows,
music or videos with their families in their living rooms," said Sam
Klepper, general manager of MSN TV at Microsoft. "Our service is
unique because it offers a vast array of entertainment, information
and communication services, yet it is easy to set up and use. It is
the result of eight years' experience developing and delivering
interactive television services to consumers."
MSN TV 2 runs a new version of the MSN TV service that enables
broadband households to enjoy Windows Media®-compatible music, video
and photos on their televisions from the Web or shared from files on
their networked PCs. Users can choose from hundreds of news, sports
and entertainment video clips updated daily from leading content
providers and play them back on their TVs automatically. The service
includes access to 200 commercial-free radio stations, a primary MSN
e-mail account with 2 GB of storage, 10 secondary e-mail accounts with
250 MB of storage, and constantly updated spam protection."
US Market Broadband penetration exceeded 50% this summer:
"U.S. broadband penetration continued its steady growth past 50% among
active Internet users in August. US broadband penetration grew by 0.73
percentage points in August, with 51.42% of active Internet users on
high-speed connections at home."
Beach, Blanket, Broadband
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0409/
"The number of broadband lines worldwide increased by almost 55% to
over 123 million in the 12 months to 30 June 2004...[t]he USA is still
well in the lead as the world's biggest broadband country, with over
29 million lines. China as growing faster but still 10 million lines
behind. Growth in Japan is starting to level off and Korea is already
almost static in total broadband numbers. Germany, Canada and France
are all very close together with about 5.1 million lines each while
the UK is about 750,000 lines behind, but growing faster. Italy has
now overtaken Taiwan to be ninth out of the top ten, so the world's
top nine broadband countries are now the top seven economies plus
China and South Korea."
Broadband Lines Pass 123 Million
http://www.point-topic.com/content/dslanalysis/Q2+04+numbers+analysis.htm
Access Here, There, Anywhere
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"According to eTForecasts, as quoted by allNetDevices in 55 Percent of
U.S. to Use Devices for Net Access by 2005, 115.4 million US users
will connect to the Internet using a wireless device, such as a cell
phone or PDA, in the year 2005. Worldwide, that number is expected to
grow to 596 million."
Using Handheld Devices to Access the Internet
http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articlepage.cfm?ArticleId=227&topicid=4
Worldwide Penetration of Handheld Devices Through 2005
Country 1999 2005
Asia 125 million 310 million
Germany 22 million 62 million
UK 21 million 45 million
France 17 million 45 million
Netherlands 7 million 12 million
Belgium 3 million 7 million
Austria 3 million 6 million
US 1.7 million 24 million
Source: Datamonitor
epaynews.com
http://www.epaynews.com/statistics/mcommstats.html#6
"By 2007 nearly 350 million mobile phones and 18 million PDAs will be
manufactured with Bluetooth capabilities (In-Stat/MDR 2003).
The mobile device market has experienced tremendous growth. By 2005,
IDC projects there will be more than 230 million laptops and data
centric handhelds, ranging from PDAs to mobile phones (IDC, 2001)."
HP Developer Solutions
http://www.hpdevelopersolutions.com/mobile/Mobile_Printing_Trends.pdf
"Internet creep will accelerate with the rise of an emerging trend:
digital ubiquity. The Internet will always be "on" as people switch to
net-connected devices. From mobile phones to PDAs to tablet and
mini-sized computers, the Internet will be ubiquitous.
The growth of 802.11- or Wi-Fi-enabled devices is one reason for this
trend. America has 3,000 public hotspots today, but 4 million hotspots
is a certainty within five years! Improvements to the 802.11 standard
are being rolled out every few months and Intel and other chipmakers
are rushing out new chips to drive Wi-Fi growth. Each version
increases the speed of the wireless Internet, opening a path to the
broadband Holy Grail: movies, music and anything else at warp speeds."
Internet Creep
http://www.internetnews.com/commentary/print.php/1568061
"In Europe and North America, WiFi is one of the few bright spots on
the technology landscape. In these regions, wireless local area
networking (LAN) technology is springing up in airports, cafes, and
along city streets, creating ubiquitous broadband access in public and
private spaces. Insight?s research suggests that WiFi growth will not
come at the expense of 2.5G, 3G, or private wireless networks, nor
will it come at the expense of xDSL, cable modems, or other forms of
wired broadband access. WiFi?s impact on telecommunications revenue,
rather, will be multiplicative; creating bigger broadband networking
opportunities for all participants."
WiFi In North America and Europe
http://www.insight-corp.com/reports/wifi.asp
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