The time before web 2.0 word was coined got web pages in the Internet which were less powerful then what we have today ‘The Internet Web Application‘. Some of the changes that we can see transparently in web application today are in the side of usability and design. The most generalization of web 2.0 concept was making the web writable and shareable. Before Information was solely published by the web site owner and most of the users only interact with the information, though still some sites provided users to write reviews, there was not any model like collaborative, sharing and community that has been more popular these days.

Those are still the old days, many extensions from writable web has been popular now with not only ability to share content but to present ourselves to the internet virtual world with our belongings and identity or more specifically we are now part of the internet social media.  All they pose the characteristics that many talks about what web 2.0 platform should have? Still the next stage of web becomes controversial.

Different People consider the next era of web application by buzzword’s like web 3.0…or semantic web etc. Some of the areas we saw changes while leaping to web 2.0 eras were

1. Technology used to deliver the final result- XMLHTTP

2. The depth of Information provided to users- MASHUPS

3. The way users use the application- SOCIAL MEDIA

4. The Business or revenue model -USER GENERATED CONTENT/ Ad/ Subscription

Another area that may be considered for the next stage in delivering the final application to the users can be:

1. Information Organization in WWW- SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY

2. The Browser Technology- W3C STANDARD, WEB APPLICATION INTEGERATION (flock)

3. Enhancement of communication technology- BANDWIDTH, HARDWARE ACCELETOR

4. Results from the web search- SEMANTIC INDEXING, NLP

5. Business Model (Always there)- SEMANTIC ADVERTISING..

Though new concepts and technology may be implemented in the next era web application, it will not be all that new; they will still inherit characteristics from web 2.0 model with some or all of the above mentioned features included.

Social media differs from the traditional media with it unique feature of ‘openness’. Media of the old times are mostly one way sharing of information. Broadcasting television video or audio are not that interactive as the online media we have today. Social media is particularly interactive sharing of information in words, pictures, videos and audio.

The below listed are some important characteristic of social media:

• Involvement- the wall between media and the audiences is transparent
• Openness- no password protected content, everyone is able to give feedback
• Discussion- social media is two way sharing thus interactive
• Community- encourage grouping people of common interest
• Connectedness- relations (for e.g. Worked together) connects people making a social graph

Today we have different kinds of media in our life and we are growing the overall social graph by joining such media especially the social network. Following is a list of social media type with example

1.  Social Networks- These are the media platform where we are connected with people for sharing and communication. Examples are FaceBook, LinkedIn and MySpace.

2. Blogs- Blogs are cheap media to share information. Everybody can have blog today with free provider like BlogSpot from Google or TypePad from SixApart.

3. Podcasts: Podcast were first introduce by Apple and are popular audio media found online. For e.g. we can find as many podcast from here.

4. Forums- Forums are traditional and most used media for discussion. BoardTracker is a comprehensive search engine to search discussion that monitors over 40,000 forum

5. Content Communities- These are the platform targeted for sharing of media of particular kind. Popular one is Flickr for sharing images, YouTube and Hulu for sharing videos, Delicious for sharing bookmarks.

6. Collaborative Platforms:  Wikis are the most popular in this kind of media that shares knowledge and information both. It gives people to add or edit content.  The most popular one is Wikipedia which has more than 2 million articles added by the public.

7. Micro Blogging: Micro Blogging was made popular by Twitter which is an integrated platform of social network and blogs which usually provides users to update content from wireless devices. Some examples are Yammer, Jaiku and Pownce.

Social media are the platforms that are never going to fade away. Enjoy your life.

Search inside semantic web will give users relevant results to the user’s query. Today’s Search Engine are based on keyword and retrieves information from unstructured source. Search application of semantic web will be designed to improve traditional Information Retrieval (IR) in order to overcome the shortcomings of the keyword-based technique in respond to information selection requests model that we have today.

Semantic Web is an extension of actual World Wide Web that aims to web content machine understandable, allowing agents and applications to access a variety of heterogeneous resources. The concept selection mechanism will be a novel, scalable disambiguation algorithm using domain specific ontology. This algorithm will prune irrelevant concepts while allowing relevant concepts to become associated with documents and participate in generating users intended result.

Today’s search such as Google, Yahoo and Live outputs well unless there is no conflict information in the documents in WWW and queries. For example a searcher inputs the query ‘bank interest charge‘ to the search engines hoping to get results that will give information about the bank interest charges or some results related to financial banking. Many search engines outputs the result on the basis of partial match or full match, thus also output results like ‘Police in riot gear charged the lines of demonstrators‘ or ‘many people have interest to roam around bank of river‘, which are completely irrelevant to the user’s query. Another aspect is that user may be not complete in describing his information needs, for example users may input their query ‘flower plants‘ but in traditional search the  result would not be so intelligent that it will out put all information about flower. For instance the document that contains ‘rose‘ or ‘lily‘, which are indeed flowers, may not be presented to the user.

So what after next 10 years when semantic web becomes possible? We will be getting broad information excluding irrelevant results when searching inside semantic web. Every prune information will be excluded from the results providing most useful and close information that relates to the users query.

We don’t have too many desktop until we are a remote system manager.We are socialized with FaceBook, Twitter; kept in touch by messengers like MSN, Yahoo, Google talk; informed news by feeds and many more. We often have number of tabs opened in our browser for different purpose. Web applications trends are moving towards a single view workplace for surfing internet with RIA/AJAX content.

With new startup Schmedley we can work on different web application just sitting in one place. It is just another web 2.0 RIA that provides useful widgets for browsing around the Web. May people using Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle will really find Schmedley more interesting.

It is not impossible to have all the web applications in a single page when they turned to web services and a distributed database in next 10 years or when semantic web becomes possible. Get invited soon for public beta from Schmedley.

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It has just been around a month I started writing my blog. Many blog focuses on a certain topic and remains on it. Now I want to (re)mix my blog and want to know users view for what it makes a (re)mix?

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Last year started techcrunch conference for startups was successful with 40 new startup participants where mint, a finance management application was selected as winner. On September 8-10 over 50 new startups with killer ideas made successful launch to the web 2.0 world. Yammer was the winner for TechCrunch50.

Yammer- Yet Another Twitter, Start Yammering today

Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you working on?” Just like in Twitter we can follow others, discuss matters etc. with Yammer.

Yammer is yet another Twitter. It gives Twitter messaging system within companies or say it is a private Twitter only for employees of a specific company. In my view this is just another web 2.0 model backing off the old style forum based discussion used within a company. For the administrative control over the people discussion, companies have to pay for yammer but it is still free to large group of employees.

It just takes your private company email to start Yammering. Why not give a try?

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Every object has a well-defined interface that specifies the behavior of the object in a manner that is independent of its implementation. This interface defines the collection of services that can be invoked by other objects. The implementation of an object describes how to carry out its services. This includes information private to the object, accessible to other objects only if services exist to provide such access……… (”Succeeding With Objects”: AW 1995)

You don’t know how it is working, what are its parts that make it solve problem. Encapsulation prevents data access to the outside world. Several access identifiers in OO language defines the level of privacy, maintaining member access to client at different scope.

Another aspect of encapsulation is also to empower the object with invisible implementation of function it provides. The strong identifier that lies on the top is ‘private’ identifier which makes the member of any class or object invisible to outside of the class.

The private member can be accessed or modified using reflection that many language provides. Here I used Java to show the overriding of private access rule.

//Code snippets

package com.bitthing.src;
public class Employee {
private String name;
//constructor sets the name
public Employee() {
name=”John”; //private members are accessible only within scope of class
   }
}

Access to the name attribute is not possible outside, not even within inherited class scope and /or same package! We can win this rule of object oriented technology using Reflection. We will know what is the name of the employee beyond the scope the class. Yes! even from outside the package.

//Code snippets

package com.bitthing.win;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
public static void main(String args[])  {
Class cls=Class.forName(“com.javra.src.Employee”);
Object employee=cls.newInstance();
Field[] fields=cls.getDeclaredFields();
For(int i=0;i<fields.length;i++) {
Fields[i].setAccessible(true);
String fieldname=Fields[i].getName();
String fieldValue=Fields[i].get(employee);//Here you have overruled
System.out.println(fieldName+”=”+fieldValue); //this prints name=John;
  }
}

Above code does not include exception handling for clarity. The access can be made to the both attributes or method . Reflection is widely used by IDE to explore class members and it’s properties.

Is not Reflection the Winner? What you think?

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Still Storrz has no competitors in India. Other similar sites are CrowdStrom, Yelp and Kaboodle Which covers global market.

While AJAX application being popular in web 2.0 era, we certainly can guess it will share major browser market soon. Users are using IE, FireFox, Safari with percentage of their markets being 75, 20 & 5 respectively. Chrome browser may overtake some percentage of the IE, Firefox & Safari market.

Developer should thank Google for using the WebKit, an open source rendering engine which avoids them to learn new engine and try to fix error on the existing sites.