The Internet today: An overviewUniversity Of Mauritius

Gilles Granger

Jean-Francois Topige

Agenda

Some figures of today’s Internet

Tendancies on the Web

Web 2.0

Where do we come from ?

2001: no space odissey

Geek Zone

Turbulence

Zone

Media zone

Some figures of today’s internet

63 millions blogs worldwide / 6 million in France / 50% active

11 million ADSL subscribers in France (20 MB = 800 MUR)

30 million Internauts in France

More than 95% of electronic mail is spam

Travel: 75% of consumers start their travel online

Computers and technology every day cheaper but more complex

The power of the long tail

“Amazon sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."

Chris Anderson

http://www.thelongtail.com/

Tendencies of the Web

Players and techniques

Must know

RSS

Social Networks

Video

Mashups

Virtual worlds

Rich Interfaces

Must know : RSS: info at your fingertips

www.ifeedgood.com

www.google.com/reader

www.netvibes.com Source: http://sebsauvage.net/comprendre/rss/

http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

Must know: Social networks

www.myspace.com

www.linkedin.com

www.viadeo.com (FR)

"Pour trouver pareille révolution, vous devez remonter il y a cinq cents ans, à l'imprimerie, la naissance des medias. La technologie est en train de détrôner rédacteurs en chefs, éditeurs, establishment, l'élite des medias. Maintenant c'est le public qui prend le pouvoir"

Rupert Murdoch Le Point 3/08/2006

Teenagers Professionals

Must know: video

This morning at 6 AM, US Time, 20 videos were uploaded in 1 minute

* 100 000 000 videos played daily

* 70 000 videos added every day

* 56% male, 12- 17-year-old age group is dominant

48 000 videos were uploaded yesterday on myspace

www.youtube.com

www.dailywordion.com

www.video.yahoo.com

www.vpod.tv

www.turnhere.comSources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2006/04/70627

Must know : mashups

User

Generated

Information

Database

Google

Maps

API

www.zillow.com

www.housingmaps.com/

Googleearth

C

Video…

Must know: Virtual Worlds

www.secondlife.comSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_life

Rich interfaces

Ajax is a technology, not a product

Web 2.0 or collaborative web

User Generated Content

www.wikipedia.com

www.flick.com

www.panoramio.com Source: Time Magazine

Journal du Net

One definition

• "Network as platform" — delivering (and allowing users to use)

applications entirely through a browser.

• Users owning the data on the site and exercising control over that

data

• An architecture of participation and democracy that encourages

users to add value to the application as they use it. This stands in

sharp contrast to hierarchical access control in applications, in

which systems categorize users into roles with varying levels of

functionality.

• A rich, interactive, user-friendly interface based on Ajax or similar

frameworks.

• Some social-networking aspects.

• A public good. "Public goods" characteristically have jointness

of supply and are non-excludable.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

1 unhappy customer mentions it to 10 others

1 happy customer to 2 others

million others

Does it really influence consumers ?

Source: IPSOS Nov 2006

Do people trust each other ?

They even borrow money from each other… http://www.prosper.com/

Nothing is written

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U