2006: the main technological trends in the Network
Richard McManus, author of the popular blog ReadWriteWeb , published
list of the main technological trends of 2006 .
Of course, 2006 can be called the year of social networks . Everybody had three success stories: MySpace , YouTube and Facebook , but other projects deserve attention, for example, the Bebo social network in the UK. Other Web 2.0 projects, including Flickr , have also shown significant growth. The apotheosis of the victorious march of social networks on the Internet, of course, was the purchase of YouTube for $ 1.65 billion .
Of course, the second most important trend has become an online video and the emergence of numerous clones of YouTube.
Another trend of the year: RSS as mainstream . Yahoo has integrated this technology into its new generation email service, and Google has done the same with Google Base and the GData format. Although nothing particularly revolutionary in adopting RSS has happened, but Internet giants have adopted this format, and further progress can be expected in 2007.
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In the past year , Web 2.0 was the most commonly used and “hackneyed” term of the year . Now Web 2.0 is not considered anything other than a marketing expression, as once “dotcom”. But this is only a linguistic dispute, whereas the most important evolution of the Web is obvious to all.
In 2006, Amazon , which released a number of advanced web technologies that are ahead of their time, manifested itself in all its glory: it is S3 distributed public storage system, Mechanical Turk bionic software and EC2 distributed “computing cloud”. Thus, the Amazon company creates a universal platform, infrastructure for building independent web services.
Widgets (miniature web applications) and a number of “personal start pages”, where you can collect a selection of your own widgets: Live.com , Netvibes , Pageflakes , etc., have become an interesting technological trend of the year.
Despite the constant presence in the news, big corporations Google, Microsoft for the whole year did not do anything particularly outstanding. So, Microsoft implemented its new Windows Live strategy and released a not so successful Zune player, and Google, like hundreds of small startups, is working on creating a web office . Apple continued to dominate the music market.
Other notable trends of the year: the creation of alliances between Internet corporations (eBay and Yahoo; eBay and Google); return to the venture capital market; business use of web blogs, wiki and other advanced Web 2.0 development.
There were trends that emerged more clearly in the past year: this is the further onset of VoIP, hybrid web / desktop applications, competition between browsers, expansion of the scope of Ajax. Well, the main of the "progressive" trends: Internet access is now 16% of the world's population , and this figure continues to grow. Three quarters of visitors to the largest web sites today come from outside the United States.
Of course, this is not a complete list of trends in 2006, which has become very eventful. For example, in RuNet, there was also a lot of interesting things: even more noticeable than in America, the activity of venture capital, the advent of "Soup", the activity of the Russian office of Google, the development of a search engine for blogs from Yandex, Web 2.0 projects from Mail.Ru and many other (add in comments ).
list of the main technological trends of 2006 .
Of course, 2006 can be called the year of social networks . Everybody had three success stories: MySpace , YouTube and Facebook , but other projects deserve attention, for example, the Bebo social network in the UK. Other Web 2.0 projects, including Flickr , have also shown significant growth. The apotheosis of the victorious march of social networks on the Internet, of course, was the purchase of YouTube for $ 1.65 billion .
Of course, the second most important trend has become an online video and the emergence of numerous clones of YouTube.
Another trend of the year: RSS as mainstream . Yahoo has integrated this technology into its new generation email service, and Google has done the same with Google Base and the GData format. Although nothing particularly revolutionary in adopting RSS has happened, but Internet giants have adopted this format, and further progress can be expected in 2007.
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In the past year , Web 2.0 was the most commonly used and “hackneyed” term of the year . Now Web 2.0 is not considered anything other than a marketing expression, as once “dotcom”. But this is only a linguistic dispute, whereas the most important evolution of the Web is obvious to all.
In 2006, Amazon , which released a number of advanced web technologies that are ahead of their time, manifested itself in all its glory: it is S3 distributed public storage system, Mechanical Turk bionic software and EC2 distributed “computing cloud”. Thus, the Amazon company creates a universal platform, infrastructure for building independent web services.
Widgets (miniature web applications) and a number of “personal start pages”, where you can collect a selection of your own widgets: Live.com , Netvibes , Pageflakes , etc., have become an interesting technological trend of the year.
Despite the constant presence in the news, big corporations Google, Microsoft for the whole year did not do anything particularly outstanding. So, Microsoft implemented its new Windows Live strategy and released a not so successful Zune player, and Google, like hundreds of small startups, is working on creating a web office . Apple continued to dominate the music market.
Other notable trends of the year: the creation of alliances between Internet corporations (eBay and Yahoo; eBay and Google); return to the venture capital market; business use of web blogs, wiki and other advanced Web 2.0 development.
There were trends that emerged more clearly in the past year: this is the further onset of VoIP, hybrid web / desktop applications, competition between browsers, expansion of the scope of Ajax. Well, the main of the "progressive" trends: Internet access is now 16% of the world's population , and this figure continues to grow. Three quarters of visitors to the largest web sites today come from outside the United States.
Of course, this is not a complete list of trends in 2006, which has become very eventful. For example, in RuNet, there was also a lot of interesting things: even more noticeable than in America, the activity of venture capital, the advent of "Soup", the activity of the Russian office of Google, the development of a search engine for blogs from Yandex, Web 2.0 projects from Mail.Ru and many other (add in comments ).
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4827/
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