Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Geographically streaming: 15 Excellent Services

The Internet is reaching our own backyards. where to start when comes to find information about the neighborhood? In this post we present 15 Useful services that features geographical content.
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Searching for the next web generation: 5 Imminent Signs

We all remember the days when we first experienced the web 2.0, and the amazing beginning of the internet’s social era. Nowadays there’s a lot of expectation of what and when the next generation will be.

Some clues and events makes eminent to think that the next generation of applications and services are around the corner, a compatible HTML, strong and bold CSS standards, smarter and more intelligent XML is leading the way to a more accomplished semantic web.

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Evolution, Plaxo has always been an exponent of vanguardist technology, now with a more polished version Plaxo lets you keep track of what you and your pals are doing online. Stumble Upon, is another practical example of the future of the internet and its intuitive service is proof of that.

Lingua Franca, after several trials on getting a more compatible HTML, a more extensive and smart its been on development from enhancement on its basic tags could also include mark up properties like titles, bodies or articles, categories; and probably a geographical approach.

Applications, The evolution of widgets and API are probably some of the biggest accomplishments of the web 2.0, however not only a more polished version the next generation may bring but a bolder presence like the emerging comments services, Open ID and Citizen Journalism exposed to new levels. All of these application makes the meaning social an easier task and putting users in the spotlight what better way to accomplish it.

Geography, ever since craigslist launched it’s free service and the service got to the stardom, no new accomplishments have being granted to Hyper-Local. Now we are experience new services. To see other examples of geography integrated to the web please check The geographical web among us.

Information, Feeds and RSS are taking a new approach about the semantic importance of a new way to deliver and share information, even a new breed of mixed services was brought by web 2.0 and we know them as Mash-Ups. Now these hybrid services are start getting exposed to bigger things and represent full services Hulu, streamy, twine are just examples of what the next generation might bring us, exciting indeed.

After a few years of online banking, video and TV streaming online, messaging systems for online and mobile, conversational media and social networks, the question is What the next generation of the internet might be?

The new breed of applications where anyone will group their online and offline life, access to interact with unlimited information, a more physical approach where all the services of our offline life will meet, where artificial intuition will allow us not to think to discover what’s next. We started to notice the signs with astonishment and realizing that the evolution of the web is imminent. Please share your thoughts and opinions on what the next step of the web is, also leave links to relevant information about it.

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