Comments on: Evolution of the Internet http://salimismail.com/?p=12 Slim's pickins about the internet, life in general et al.... Sat, 08 May 2010 21:18:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kads Chowdhury http://salimismail.com/?p=12&cpage=1#comment-69982 Kads Chowdhury Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:57:15 +0000 http://salimismail.com/?p=12#comment-69982 I rally like reading posts like this (this one is a little over 3 years old) to see the comparison between the predictions of the past and the way the internet has actually evolved. All in all, I would say that you were pretty close… until I got to the end and the sentence: <cite>I think I can cogently talk about why social networking will be a smaller part of the future internet experience than he thinks.</cite> Well, you were way off on this one. Now it seems like social networking is what it's all about. If you don't have a Facebook, you don't exist and if you're not Twitering, you’re probably in a hospital... Nice post, it made my morning a little more cheerful. I rally like reading posts like this (this one is a little over 3 years old) to see the comparison between the predictions of the past and the way the internet has actually evolved. All in all, I would say that you were pretty close… until I got to the end and the sentence:
I think I can cogently talk about why social networking will be a smaller part of the future internet experience than he thinks.
Well, you were way off on this one. Now it seems like social networking is what it’s all about. If you don’t have a Facebook, you don’t exist and if you’re not Twitering, you’re probably in a hospital…
Nice post, it made my morning a little more cheerful.

]]> By: Feroz Zaveri http://salimismail.com/?p=12&cpage=1#comment-18 Feroz Zaveri Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:47:41 +0000 http://salimismail.com/?p=12#comment-18 The "Active Web" is not sponsored!!! I quote Bill Burnham from his "A Unified Theory of Search, Social Networking, Structured Blogging, RSS and the Active Web". "RSS is exciting because it is the first widely accepted (and increasingly deployed) standard for transforming the web into more an active entity. With RSS, you can now “listen” to the web and automatically receive updates without having to go looking for them. But RSS is primarily a demand-side innovation. It benefits consumers of information/services but not suppliers." And later.. "...why go the trouble of posting an apartment for rent on Craig’s List or Rent.com when you can just publish a “Apartment Rental” post on your personal website and know that this listing will shortly be available to everyone in the entire world... ...No need to wander around the web trying to figure out how best to reach other people, just publish once on your site and let the “Active Web” take the information and distribute it as widely as possible " If this is the trend: I've got my own website. I publish my own requirements, my own services. I get relevant news feeds via RSS feeds and podcasts.. my www because my wwh - world wide home. I would quit browsing! What happens to advertising revenues? What happens to the likes of rent.com? Why would anyone advertise on any site? Stupid question? It could be. I'm new to this. Remember that feeling when you're trying to find a particular spot in a new city and you ask someone for it and he says "it's right behind you!" That's what I'm feeling.. Feroz Zaveri The “Active Web” is not sponsored!!!

I quote Bill Burnham from his “A Unified Theory of Search, Social Networking, Structured Blogging, RSS and the Active Web”.

“RSS is exciting because it is the first widely accepted (and increasingly deployed) standard for transforming the web into

more an active entity. With RSS, you can now “listen” to the web and automatically receive updates without having to go

looking for them. But RSS is primarily a demand-side innovation. It benefits consumers of information/services but not

suppliers.”

And later.. “…why go the trouble of posting an apartment for rent on Craig’s List or Rent.com when you can just publish a

“Apartment Rental” post on your personal website and know that this listing will shortly be available to everyone in the

entire world… …No need to wander around the web trying to figure out how best to reach other people, just publish once

on your site and let the “Active Web” take the information and distribute it as widely as possible ”

If this is the trend: I’ve got my own website. I publish my own requirements, my own services. I get relevant news feeds via

RSS feeds and podcasts.. my www because my wwh – world wide home. I would quit browsing! What happens to advertising

revenues? What happens to the likes of rent.com? Why would anyone advertise on any site?

Stupid question? It could be. I’m new to this. Remember that feeling when you’re trying to find a particular spot in a new city and you ask someone for it and he says “it’s right behind you!” That’s what I’m feeling..

Feroz Zaveri

]]> By: waka waka waka » Blog Archive » Network News http://salimismail.com/?p=12&cpage=1#comment-10 waka waka waka » Blog Archive » Network News Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:47:50 +0000 http://salimismail.com/?p=12#comment-10 [...] My friend Salim Ismail has written a good post about the evolution of the Internet (in fact, the piece has the imaginative title “Evolution of the Internet”) over at his excellently named blog, You’ve Got Ismail! In it he talks about the three kinds of uses to which the Internet has been put. The first was messaging, which just involves transmitting a packet of data from one place to another. This was the underpinning of the first big-time Internet application: email, which got rolling in the 1980’s. The second was request-response which is what HTTP is all about, and which made possible the explosive growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990’s. The third, which is just getting underway, is publish-subscribe, in which information on the Internet, which so far has had to be actively fetched by the user, now will tell interested parties about itself. [...] [...] My friend Salim Ismail has written a good post about the evolution of the Internet (in fact, the piece has the imaginative title “Evolution of the Internet”) over at his excellently named blog, You’ve Got Ismail! In it he talks about the three kinds of uses to which the Internet has been put. The first was messaging, which just involves transmitting a packet of data from one place to another. This was the underpinning of the first big-time Internet application: email, which got rolling in the 1980’s. The second was request-response which is what HTTP is all about, and which made possible the explosive growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990’s. The third, which is just getting underway, is publish-subscribe, in which information on the Internet, which so far has had to be actively fetched by the user, now will tell interested parties about itself. [...]

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