Poll Analysis

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Our 9th poll. From the extracted results, 5 voters would take OnLive into consideration as their gaming platform. We could conclude that these voters feel this platform could compete against other its more established rivals a run for their money.

We were a little surprise to see that the Playstation and Xbox platform getting only one vote each. I suppose it does make sense from a hardware point of view. You don't have to get a new console every generation refresh with OnLive after all.

Thanks fellow voters !

An Interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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An interview with “the father of the internet”, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was interviewed by New York Times technology reporter, Steve Lohr at the Embassy of Finland in Washington on October 2009.

During the interview Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave his views and explains the work flow of the Semantic Web with intriguing perspectives.

This 37 minute video was brought by the Finland Technology Academy Foundation. Currently that foundation presents the Biennial Prize to any individual in the form of cash, $1.4 million for a technological achievement that benefits the society. Unsurprisingly, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the winner.

I understand how you feel, 37 minutes ? WTH ? Just bare with me. I wouldn't put you all through such a lengthy video if it wasn't good.




Blip Tv, [ONLINE] Retrieved 5th April 2011

URL : http://blip.tv/file/2707910/

Future Hardware

Link to us: http://snipurl.com/intel10cores

Hardware is equally as important as the software that makes use of it. You can have the fastest CPU coupled with the fastest graphic card, but without proper optimized drivers, all that power is useless. Vice versa, you have software able to take advantage of parallel computing (running on multiple cores) , but your hardware is as old as a Pentium 4.

From all of our articles, i'm sure you can guess by now that the computing power required by future web generations will be enormous. How are the future web servers able to cope with such demands such as cloud computing? Pushing data, not to mentioned the processed games from OnLive servers?

Well towards the middle of 2011, web servers will have the option to be equipped with 10 CORE processors ! Yes 10 cores !

Intel will be releasing their latest refresh to the Xeon line, codenamed "Westmere-EX". For those whom aren't aware, octo-core CPU's have been around since 2010 it self.

Whats so remarkable then, right?

Hello !?!?! that was just a year ago, and a year later 2 additional cores have been added. If Intel keeps this pattern up, theres no doubt that web servers of the future will have plenty of power at their disposal. Not to to mention, be more environmental friendly with lower power consumption rates.

Keep in mind, all Intel CPU's since 2010 come with Hyper Threading, a feature which adds a virtual thread, giving each core 2 threads. Do the math, 10 cores with Hyper Threading gives us 20 THREADS from ONE CPU !

Whats your prediction for next year? 12 cores for 2012?


Kevin Parrish, TomsHardware, [ONLINE] Retrieved 4th April 2011
URL : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Xeon-westmere-EX-Nehalem-EX-10-cores-160-threads,12230.html

Refreshing

For those of you interested to see how Web 3.0 has come froooooooooooooom Web 1.0

Please, do go through this slides. It long, but its really intriguing.

Poll Analysis

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Five voters feel the next generation could pose a threat to society. Their right ! As we've mentioned, with Open ID getting more integrated into a singular account, one hack is all it takes.


Only one voted NO. Perhaps this voter has faith in the security of the future web systems. It's always good to have positive thinking here and there.

And no votes for Maybe. Good to know that no one is uncertain about this. As usual, thank you fellow voters.

The Sucessor

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A discussion taking place on a Tuesday afternoon.........




Hartrishen : Hello ladies and gentlemen. A good morning,

Thiru: good afternoon,

Emil: and good evening

Hartrishen: to all of you. Today we the third gen will be sharing with you on the future,

Emil: Not web 3.0

Thiru: But another step further into the future,

Hartrishen: WEB 4.0 !......................So what exactly is the next generation of web ?

Emil: Well there’s no clear definition of what it might even be yet.

Thiru: Except for the term WEB 4.0 ! (laughter)

Emil: There’re only theories on what it may be for now.

Hartrishen:
I see. While I was digging around the web a few days ago I came across the term Web OS?

Emil:
Yeah, it basically unifies the internet into an operating system like environment, where by everything gets standardized.................So viewing the same website across multiple devices like smart phones and PC’s will be the same.

Thiru: That pretty much sounds like Web 3.0 doesn’t it?

Hartrishen:
Of course but perhaps what he means that Web 4.0 will take this Web OS idea deeper in some way. I mean there will be similarities between these two era's. Look at Web 4.0 and 3.0, both have AJAX, both have Open ID, web 2.0 has Open ID on a small scale like Facebook Connect and Google Connect. So Web 3.0 like what we posted earlier, will unify all of these details into a singular account, and these features will be built upon from there.

Thiru:
Right. Here’s something very UN Web 3.0 like. Artificial Intelligence ...... With web 3.0, it learned about us, our preferences and gave suggestions based on that. Whereas with 4.0, computers begin making the decision for us. The projected evolution of this technology could lead to humans and robots working together. Robots that will act and think like us. So A.I will probably start with computers and then move forward from there…..

Hartrishen: TERMINATORS ! Arnold Swarchenegger ! SkyNet ! (laughter)

Emil:
So what Thiru just described can actually be considered as symbiosis also............when two different organisms live together.

Hartrishen:
If you don’t get the idea, then just picture an automobile factory. Man and machine co exist, working together to assemble vehicles.

Emil:
Yeah, so this is where web 4.0 gets referred to as the Symbiotic Web.
Besides that, just like how we’re able to understand pictures and form a thought on it, the web will gain this ability. This is taking the semantic web to a whole new level by bringing in images..................and the scary part is, the web can now identify US !

Hartrishen:
Well that's pretty much what web 4.0 is all about for now, just theories and speculation. When web 3.0 goes into full swing, then more details of the next generation will unfold.

Signing off, from Hartrishen, Emil Anthony and Thirupathi. Terima kasih and thank you for tuning in to us.

Contest Results !

Congratulations

To Chew Su Juin from AUP on being the winner of the crossword puzzle contest ! Her Prize?? RM30 !!!

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And in second place we have Timothy Declan from DMEI receiving 6 Subway "Buy 1 Free 1" coupons

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Third place goes to Prabhbir Singh from DMC also receiving 3 Subway "Buy 1 Free 1" coupons.

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Lastly, we would like to thank all our participants for their effort. Good jobs guys, better luck next time hopefully !

Poll Analysis

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7 voters this time around for our poll on cloud computing. It's good to see 4 voters feel that its convenient. Well it is, isn't it? All your data practically follows you every where (with an internet connection of course ) . Thus, theres no need for physical media to carry around, which might i add is susceptible to loosing, like leaving your thumb drive behind, anyone?

Only one however felt it's unsafe. Well true as well. With all of your data online, its prone to hackers intercepting it, like during retrieval or uploading. Either way, the feeling of leaving everything online, or shall i say in the clouds, could rain back down on anyone. Not a pleasing feeling.

Which is why i believe 2 voters had mixed feelings about it. While there are a wealth of benefits, it also has its fair share of detriment.

Thank you fellow voters once again !

The Fall of the Semantic Web

Link to us : http://sn.im/thefallofsemantic

Well judging from the title we might draw a conclusion that the application is failing but definitely it is not just a few errors here and there which I thought of sharing. This was on my mind throughout as the works done in Moncton on a project e-learning cluster and I saw that the ‘cluster building’ is still considered to be one of the major pillar of NCR’s strategy, which brings to wonder whether our valuable work would on still linger to be part of that strategy again.

It was running through my head just now, the work that we were doing here in Moncton to work on an e-learning cluster. Because I saw that 'cluster building' is still one of the major pillars of NRC's strategy, and I was wondering whether our work would ever be a part of that again. As my mind begin to wander how some of the things that did not go very well in our first few years, encountering many challenges and hardships. As creating ‘brand image’ was most challenging and tough as some of the companies went under – a couple basically for them to put that thrust in us was really a ‘trying moment’. Some of the companies even before we can talk to them, another, after we were in a project with the company as then we were able to sat down with in 2002 or 2003 and laid it all out nicely based on RSS, content syndication, social networks basically narrowed to the whole Web 2.0 application. And even with all that the companies weren’t interested and within less a year they were gone.

And off cause I thought about where we’re right today and where we might be wrong and why because despite having a pretty record –, as it is on the ‘this years predictions which includes Open ID and the runaway success. From my point of view the semantic web would not work and cannot work. Such a intuition is very difficult to explain as I was focusing on the edgy things of Web 2.0 which indeed was showing some cracks.

Some highlights on the key things of today are :

• As Yahoo is presently forcing people up their Flickr identities and ask them to join the mother ship.
  
  
• MySpace is blocking all the widgets which is not supported by some sort of business deal with MySpace.
  
  
• And off cause the rumors that Google is turning off the search API also the Semantic Web will never depend on business working together and cooperating.
  

References:

Semantic, [Online] Retrieved 22th March 2011
URL: http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-semantic-web-will-fail.html

Crossword Puzzle Contest ! Win RM30 !

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Stand a chance to win RM30 cash prize just by doing a crossword puzzle ! Getting money for that couldn't be easier !

Grand Prize : RM30 cash

Second place : Six Subway "Buy 1 Free 1" coupons (valid till 31st March)

Third place : Three Subway "Buy 1 Free 1" coupons (valid till 31st March)

Regulations:

1. ONLY INTI College Subang students and faculty are eligible to participate.
   
   
2. Only ONE entry per person
   
   
3. Submission of answer sheet is STRICTLY through INTI ONLINE for identity verification purposes.
   
   
4. Deadline for submission is on 24th March 2011 by 12.00 PM. Any submission after the stated time and date will be ignored.
   
   
5. In an event where there are 2 winners, the one that submitted the earliest will be chosen as the grand prize winner. So get moving !

Registration & Submission

1. Participants are required to submit their details to the contest organizes :

• Emil Anthony: j10007751@intionline.inti.edu.my
  
• Thiru Rao: j10007705@intionline.inti.edu.my
• Hartrishen: j10007707@intionline.inti.edu.my
  
  

2. Registration details to include are:

• Name :
• Student ID :
• Programme :
• Email :
• Contact number :

Subject of the email should be your name followed by contest registration. For example, "Rustin Contest Registration".

Submission of answers should be attached to the reply email to us, also through INTI ONLINE.

Thats about it, Good Luck !

Weekly Poll

Link to us: http://sn.im/poll6th

So we're into our sixth poll and for the first time we've got a 100% rate for the correct answer!

6 voters chose yes to our question. Now although the question may have seemed a bit too straight forward, we posted it hopping to see if our readers were certain of the benefits of Web 3.0.

Well it clearly appears that their crystal clear. We can only hope for more results like these for the upcoming polls. As usual, a big THANKS ! to our voters for their participation once again.

Future Proofing Mobile Websites

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We've been talking about Web 3.0 from a general perspective all this while but what about the mobile devices like smart phones? With emerging operating systems like Android, Apple iOS, and Windows Mobile the number of users on the Web are bound to increase tenth fold. Which is why it's important for web developers to begin making their websites more compatible with these devices.

A few ideas that will prepare your site are:

• Making sure your mobile version site contains user agent detection such as WP-Touch which can prompt a mobile-formatted CSS of your standard site or redirect it to a mobile friendlier version in your sub domain or directory.
  
  
• Provide an option switch back to a standard web version (without the Web 3.0 features)

• Do not block Googlebot-Mobile within your robots.txt. It checks the Doc Type in deciding inclusion into mobile site index, like for example if you used the XHTML Mobile or Compact HTML type.

• Avoid using pixels and absolute rendering, a process of generating an image from scene files which are in computer codes. You can choose percentage or relative.

• Hyper linked text should be minimized for clearer viewing and visual reasons.

• Make buttons larger when hovered over. Mobile users don't appreciate having to realign their thumb to select something. Currently there are 2 types of touch screen technologies, resistive and capacitive. Resistive touch screen requires pin point contact with the tip of a finger or a stylus whereas capacitive (iPhone) needs a larger surface contact with the screen, i.e your thumb.
  

• Submit your website to W3C for verification and MobiReady to test load time and mobile device rendering.

These are some ways that can prepare a site for the next generation Web and Devices. Would you start surfing the web more on mobiles devices when these implementations roll out?

Reference:

Raven, [ONLINE], Retrieved 12th Feb 2011.
URL: http://raventools.com/blog/mobile-seo-preparation-for-a-semantic-web/

Yummly

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Who doesn't enjoy food? I' m sure each of us likes it in one way or another. Cooking for instance can be one of them. Today there's a number of online sites to find recipes such as, Epicurious, Bing and Food Network.com. New to the game now is Yummly, a semantic food search portal that aggregates recipes from connects over 500,000 recipes around the web.The unique feature of Yummly is it's filtration system which is not only based on the type of food, course, and ingredient but can now intelligently break down recipes by diet, allergy, nutrition, price, cuisine, time, taste and sources.

Adding more to it's uniqueness, Yummly is able to recalculate a recipe and reflect the alterations of ingredient amounts and display a breakdown of calories, fats, proteins and carbohydrates. As we've mentioned before, the web learns about you in Web 3.0. So does Yummly which learns from the users preferences, searches, and saved recipes; thus, providing them with more relevant results for every recipe search.

Yummly was founded by former StumbleUpon and eBay employee David Feller in 2009 and today as turned out as the leading search engine for recipes and food matters alike.

Well, you hungry yet?

References:

Techcrunch ,[Online] Retrieved 13th March 2011

URL:http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/21/yummlys-semantic-search-engine-is-the-ultimate-online-cookbook-for-foodies/

Poll Analysis

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From the results, Bing really does blow the rest away with 6 out 8 votes, with Hakia and Sensebot each getting one vote.

I have mixed feelings over the results though. In a way it's good that the readers know that Bing is a semantic search engine as well (an article on Bing coming up soon). However with Sensebot and Hakia only receiving one vote each is disappointing since we have mentioned it a number of times in a few articles, in fact just recently i did one on Sensebot.

From another perspective perhaps I feel that Bing may have gotten 6 votes due to its popularity compared with the other two. It is a Microsoft service after all. I really do hope that Hakia and Sensebot do some more advertising about their search engines and what they have to offer compared to the competition.

As always, our gratitude goes out to our readers.

Privacy

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There was so much hype bout web 3.0 and we have posted so many articles regarding web 3.0 in our blog such as the features, advantages and disadvantages, and even a poll analysis which resulted in 63.64% voters wants to upgrade to Web 3.0. Well that a good thing, but how would you prepare for it?

The main aspect in preparing for web 3.0 is providing it with a lot of information. The more information it gets better it will be. And the best place to start with is social sites likes of Facebook. This is becauce surely you would already have a Facebook account and Facebook shares it’s member’s information with other services with its API such as Mafia Wars Game and Texas HoldEm Poker. Certain information that Facebook shares are:-

* Location
* Gender
* Date of Birth
* Relationship Status
* Employment and Education Status
* Likes – books, films, music, etc.
* Fan pages

This for sure will make the users to think that their privacy is invaded and Facebook doesn’t care about its member’s security but there is an article by Eric Harber “How much is your privacy worth?“. In that article, Mr. Harber stated, “we’ve been trading our privacy in for perks and benefits for years and therefore there can be little doubt that we’ll continue to do so in the future”. He is trying to say that its user’s choices to safe guard their privacy but in this data driven world, privacy is illusion. More of user activities are watched and for example, how sure are you that the photo that a user deleted is surely not in the web anymore. All I am trying to say that to use Web 3.0 to a certain extent, users have to be prepared to share some private information unless they are using false information :D

Web 3.0 is not released but once it does, are you prepared to share your information for a better web experience?

Reference:

SOCIAL COMPUTING JOURNAL,[Online], Retrieved 7th March 2011.
URL: http://socialcomputingjournal.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=828

TECH FLASH, [Online], Retrieved 8th March 2011.
URL: http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/03/How_much_is_your_privacy_worth41625437.html

OnLive !

Link to us: http://sn.im/onlive

Do you all remember my previous article on cloud computing, with the cartoon cloud image?

This is a follow up on that article, in which i mentioned that cloud computing is also faster. Faster in what sense? Well i gave an example but how would you like to know that it's been implemented in the real world?

Say hello to OnLive. A cloud based video gaming on demand service. Thus, video games are now computed on multiple web serves. It was launched on 17th June 2010 only in US, but they do intend on going international.

Aside from that, who would want this? Those for example that wish to play Need for Speed Hot Pursuit (2010) but their system is using integrated graphics or worse yet, their running a netbook (LMAO).

This is where OnLive shines. The service targets users that don't have the adequate hardware to run games and not those of you that have Nvidia 3 way SLi or ATI Quad Crossfire setups. The advantage to this is that mid range gaming can now be brought to all sorts of devices, yes netbooks included. Doubt it? Don't, it even runs on an iPad and soon, Android tablets.

Plus, you don't even need a PC to run this service actually. It can also come with a microconsole, a device about the size of a calculator which directly connects to your HDTV via HDMI and internet via the RJ-45 Ethernet port. (This means war against the console giants....Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo)

Despite these benefits, there are some drawbacks. Frame rates are low around 20 - 30 on average and resolution capped at 720p (this isn't full HD 1080p). Also, it requires a minimum internet connection speed of 4Mbps and above. This clearly isn't a product for countries such as ours where the majority of internet users subscribe to speeds around 1Mbps. While appearing to be a unique solution for bringing gaming to all devices, OnLive would be more suitable for gamers in the future.

Standardization and creating a unified Web OS is part of the Web 3.0 idea. OnLive, is another example that shows this idea being put to practise with video games, enabling a unfied experience throughout various types of devices.

Eager to play Crysis 2 on your netbook now?

References:

Chris Angelini, OnLive, [Online] Retrieved 7th March 2011
URL: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/onlive-gaming-cloud,2671.html

Poll Analysis

From the bar chart, 7 out of 11 voters chose to upgrade. They surely can’t deny the benefits that await them.

3 voters chose to stick with Web 2.0. Now I feel there could be two reasons for this. Either their unsure of the outcome of Web 3.0 or they rather stick with their comfort zones. There are some of us that just aren't fond of change and that's perfectly fine. Do fire away in the comments if I got the wrong idea.

While it may strike some surprise that 1 voter wished to return to the Web 1.0 era, I somehow feel that perhaps with all these every growing content in Web 2.0 and complexities, scams and crimes, it may be a reasonable choice after all.

So, with our results, we’re glad to see that most internet users are ready to upgrade as technology improves. Last but not least, we would like to thank all our voters for their votes.

SenseBot

Continuing from my previous article on Semantic Search Engine, I would like to elaborate further on the SenseBot search engine

One might ask what technology does it use, well it uses a semantic search engine, in other words it attempts to understand what the result pages are about that uses text mining to parse Web pages and identify their key semantic concepts. More often it performs multi document summarization of content to produces a coherent summary. And also the purpose of the semantic search engine which uses the concept of the dot-com bubble that gets 10 links of context. Anyway trying to understand dot-com bubble you would have click on the links some of the pages you might have been familiar but others might have been too shallow, biased or just wayward links to other resources and not based precisely on the questions only leading to redundant information.

In order to save time you might as well click at SenseBot which is one final link and receive a precise summary compared to dot.com.bubble. The SenseBot actually generates a summary from the top most relevant pages on the subject. By then you would have got some ideas about dot.com bubble phenomenon and understand the model and decide which sources you want to know deeper. But the SenseBot will drop the sources that are shallow on the content relevant to the topic. In accessing the SenseBot you not only saving time and effort by also providing the right source by the first click and the summary may revel to you which of the sources are worth drilling further for a precise answer which can be used in search on education, learning, medical queries, business intelligence and news analysis. Basically we can conclude that SenseBot is a rescuer who understand a concept or a particular area of knowledge, or get a digest on a person, an event, an activity that identifies quickly the best source of information on the topic.

Currently we are continuously working on improvement of the quality of the summaries. We have a number of Products based on the technologies used in SenseBot.

SenseBot, [Online] Retrieved 1 March 2011
URL : http://www.sensebot.net/about.htm

HTML5 Delayed. Web 3.0 still on Track?

As we all know by now (or should know) that HyperText Markup Language 4.01 is the most widely adopted version. Since 2008, HTML5 has been buzzing around. The fifth revision has been in development and was said to be finalized in December 2010 by the wise folks from W3C. However the finalization date has now been pushed back to the 1st quarter of 2014.

Hmm doesn't this sound like HTML5 may very well trail the development of 3.0? And i'm sure you're wondering the meaning and relevance to all of these?

Well HTML5 does play a vital role in the semantic web. If you remember my second article on which i spoke about the features, i mentioned ontology/meta data? Where by context are tagged with their characteristics like a ball, colour = "red" and type = "futsal".

And so, with HTML5, it provides support for Microdata. It's basically meta data for HTML elements / tags.

I'll use an example from briancray.com



The itemprop attribute is short for item property. By tagging the elements, the search engine will be able to infer that this message is associated to an event from "itemscope". Next, this big event is due to take place on the 4th of July (guessing you figured out the big event) at 6.00pm. So by tagging it with startDate and datetime this message now bears some understanding to a machine.

That example has been edited due to some space constraints, do checkout the site for the full example.

We can clearly see with this HTML5 feature, it has the potential to drive the development of Web 3.0. With the postponement of the finalization, i truly hope it doesn't keep websites and search engine developers from implementing them into their applications and sites sooner. Heck, they now have 3 more years to thinker around with it.

In your view, good or bad?

References:

Douglas Perry, HTML5 to be finalized in 2014, [Online] Retrieved 15th February 2011
URL: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/html5-w3c-internet-web-browser,news-10127.html

HTML5 Microdata, [Online] Retrieved 28th February 2011
URL : http://briancray.com/2010/09/08/html5-microdata/

Poll Analysis

From our results,our poll has obtained 9 voters throughout a 6 day period.

We thethirdgen aren't satisfied due to the lack of votes. On the other hand, we are happy because 7 voters felt that Web 3.0 would make their life easier. This is without a doubt a definite thing.

Yet there are a remaining of 2 voters whom are unsure. If you two haven't read our previous articles then it might help but if not then some feedback would be appreciated.

It is an absolute delight to see that no voters choose "Nope". This shows some sign of understanding among our readers.

So once again we would like to thank the voters for their participation.

The Headup Widget

Headup is the creation of SemantiNet, an Israeli company committed to forming Semantic Web technologies and platforms. It is a substance improvement platform for publishers and bloggers that identifies key terms, analyzes site content and automatically provides related material from social networks and popular web services.

The widget is able to differentiate topics that we want to search by removing any uncertainty from a sentence's context. For example, based on the name “Ferdinand”, it can recognize whether the context is related to the footballer Rio Ferdinand or singer Franz Ferdinand or Disney’s musical “Ferdinand the Bull”. This differentiation depends on its knowledge graph to pull related results from best matching web resources.

Certain problems can be solved by using Headup widget in a website. Matters like latest news and key topics can be updated automatically. This widget too can customize the content found automatically so the publishers can contribute quality information to their readers.

Headup widget runs in real time, thus the data on the website will be updated when ever new updates are available. Web 3.0 will have some of this capabilities but do you think this Headup Technology widget can make matters better?

Reference:

Headup Technology, [ONLINE] Retrieved 22^nd February 2011

URL: http://www.headup.com/Technology.php

Google runs on Caffeine

Before I begin, have any of you wondered how Google works?

Well i was going to offer my own interpretation until i came across Mr. Matt Cutts's version, and well his is just a tiny winy better.

In Google's previous web indexing system, it was made up of several layers. In order to update these layers which is carried out through a few weeks, they would need to analyze the entire web, causing a delay between when the new page is found and when you’re able to find out about it.

In other words, when there’s newer content published on a site, it won’t get listed in Google’s index immediately.

Meet Caffeine, Google's current web indexing system. Their able to analyze the entire web continuously, enabling them to update their index with newer sites or information on current sites immediately as their found. Actually Caffeine went live on June 8th 2010 !

Make no mistake, this wasn't some minor optimization.

Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they would go for more than 40 miles.

Carrie Grimes, Google Blog

With Caffeine, the search giant has taken another step to give us more accurate, faster, and updated search results. In my opinion, I feel optimizations like this will lead the progression of Web 3.0 as it’s a clear sign that the amount of content in Web 2.0 needs a newer way of organization and management. Don’t you?

References:

Carrie Grimes, Google blog [Online] Retrieved 21^st February 2011
URL: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html

Poll Analysis

From our results gathered, our poll has obtained 11 voters throughout a 6 day period. I should point out that our poll tracks IP addresses so hopefully this erases any thought that the results were manipulated.

Good news:

It is a relief to see that 8 out of 11 voters have a better understanding of Web 3.0 now thanks to our articles. This kind of results brings us one step closer in achieving our goal.

2 out 11 voters roughly have an idea on what the next generation web is about. It’s a good start for them. At least better than nothing right?

Bad news:

Only 1 voter remains in dark even after reading our articles.

Now we do hope on some feedback in our comment section when anyone of you found it difficult to understand about what we’re mumbling. It would give us a chance to improve on our content delivery.

Overall this week’s results have greatly satisfied us. We would like to extend our gratitude to our readers that have contributed to this poll.

It’s getting cloudy

Anyone using a computer today has at least had the experience of their computer crashing once. Either you mistakenly deleted some files that can never be replaced or your hard drive did that for you. What about viruses? Where they came from? Whoops, there goes the Master Boot Record.

If only your PC could be like Facebook, everything from your messages, applications and photos all stored online. Who says it can’t?

Welcome to cloud computing.

The idea here is that wherever you go, your work and data follows you. Web 3.0 is seen as this force that’s going to break the barrier between the IT and telecommunications world. Here’s how. Instead of having your data and applications stored and processed by your PC’s hardware, it’s done on other computers and servers. Why?

Cause you get to access it from anywhere as long as you’re connected to the internet. All your files are stored online, so are your programs. If your hard disk dies, you lose nothing.

Furthermore, it’s also faster, eliminating the need for high end hardware. Whatever you do on your desktop; you can have the same experience on your Smart phone despite its 600MHz ARM CPU. How come? Through parallel computing. Just like today’s processors can use multiple cores to divide and spread the workload, that’s exactly how hundreds of computers will be used to process your information or application and pass the data over an internet connection to any device.

No longer will speed be defined by hardware, instead by your internet connection speed.

Can anyone guess the downside to this? Leave your thoughts below!

References:

Ted Hoy, Converging Cloud Computing and the Web, [Online], Retrieved 14th February 2011
URL: http://www.ebizq.net/topics/cloud_computing/features/12477.html?