Would you download Music
from this Man? The new faces and trends behind
the Web
The Web has been going through
a profound evolution in recent years that goes
beyond just increased size and number of users,
faster computers and increased connectivity.
The Web has become Social. This means that
the user role has moved from passive reader
of existing documents to contributor of information
and data. This is an evolution that is deeply
changing the way we use the Web itself and
in general the way we gather and use information.
“In this talk, I will briefly describe the Web evolution, from the first
steps to today's Web, via the Internet bubble and some of the reasons why some
companies survived and others did not. Then I will focus on the Social Web (or
Web 2.0), describing its main characteristics and motivations, as well its potentiality.
Popular applications like Wikipedia, Facebook, LastFM, Flickr and GoogleMaps
will be used to exemplify the trend.
Finally I will describe the expectations for further evolution, often
referred to as Web 3.0. ”
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