HTML 5, The Next Big Thing.
If you haven’t heard by now HTML is releasing version 5 which is said to redefine the internet as we know it. Now some of these changes and modifications would not be very noticeable to any regular user who just reads website. But to everyone who develops websites it will be a pretty significant change. It first showed up in January 22, 2008 and since then it has been going through revisions and debates. One of the biggest additions being done to HTML 5 two new tags called video and audio. Obviously they speak for themselves on what they do but they will also accomplish to standardized video formats across the internet and hopefully getting rid of using Flash for video contents. There is an ongoing debate on what format and codec to use for the video but it should be resolved in less than a year or so.
HTML 5 is already “out there” but its more of a browser thing to adopt it. As far as I know only Google Chrome 3 (When it comes out) will be supporting HTML 5 at least most of the tags but it will take a few releases of each browsers to actually get it right and perfect it. A few old HTML tags have been depricated because there doesn’t seem to be a need for them since it could be accomplished through CSS. One of my favorite new tags besides the video one, will be footer, article and section which lets you organize your website easier without too much CSS problems. For more information on HTML 5 read the links listed below.
Finding A Good Domain Name.
It took me almost 3 weeks to think about a good domain name for my website but I finally got it. I wanted something that you could add a subdomain and still sound good. But coming up with a domain name isn’t easy and even worse yet the best names are probably taken and you can’t afford to buy them from the people who own them. FriedBeef created a pretty good article of differrent ways of coming up with a domain name. You must always remember that sometimes weird names work, if you don’t believe me then ask Google. Web 2.0 usually have the oddest most creative name and they suggest a website called Bustaname for people looking into that trend. Good luck finding your domain name.
Yasser
How Much Is Your Website Worth?
How many times have you thought about the Internet Real Estate business but never had any idea of how it works or how much to pay for something. Martin Brinkmann wrote a great article about what helps determines the value of a website. Popularity is the first obvious thing to consider. The more visitors a website has then the better it is for business. But other things come into play also like how much money does it make in that moment or the age of the domain and history of it. When determining how popular a website is then there comes different tools and ways of measuring it. The first common one would be the PageRank which usually doesn’t give much details unless it is above a 5. But some people would consider Alexa Ranking a more valuable way of measuring the popularity of a website.
There are many factors that come into play when pricing a website. But in the end it is a very inexact science and calculation of how much the name or service is worth.
From Web 2.0 to 3.0
Marc Benioff (CEO of salesforce.com) has written an article for TechCrunchIT about the evolution of Web structure. He explains what the future is bringing and what he labels Web 3.0.
The new rallying cry of Web 3.0 is that anyone can innovate, anywhere. Code is written, collaborated on, debugged, tested, deployed, and run in the cloud. When innovation is untethered from the time and capital constraints of infrastructure, it can truly flourish.
From what I interpreted Web 3.0 goes from websites with API or users writing the programs instead of the companies. The clearest example will have to be Facebook. Instead of the company writing programs to make the service better, the users themselves are the one building on top of it and improving it in their own ways. I have small belief that this should be considered Web 3.0, if anything I would name it Web 2.5 . It is a small step forward from user generated data, to users generating software. In any case Web 2.0 is still the leader of things and creating the biggest market. But there is no doubt that user generated software is caching on quick and it is very beneficial for companies. Saving them money and time.
Yasser
Will Google Be The Internet ?
Everyone has always praised Google of its accomplishments, of how it is one of the best things that happened to the internet, it was defined as the true competitor to Microsoft. But as Google keeps rising people start debating is the best thing over or the worst nightmare ever? It was recent in the news that Google just indexed 1 Trillion Pages. Lets face it, if we don’t know something most of us ask Google. A few years after Google Search success came GMail also changing the whole e-mail market, they keep raising the bar.
On “latest” events they have joined the online software market competing with companies like Zoho, specifically in the online Office Products. Among many other things there is also the Google Groups for people to gather and discuss topics and what not. There are very few things that Google hasn’t done yet, they are all over the market from making websites to the amazing maps. With all this control over the internet market we should start wondering what that means for everyone else? If they control the searches and what can we find in the internet then it is obvious that there products will always be first in the list. It is a scary thought that they are becoming “the internet”. Are we in the era of a new monopoly? I’m not saying that Google is evil. I love Google, I use plenty of their services. But if Google would be able to become “The Social Network” then will there really be a need for all the other websites? Little will be left.
Yasser
How the 50 Best Websites Make Money.
Everyone who runs a website has a few things in mind. First they want visitors because you don’t want to have a place that no one reads or uses at all. And after that most people want to make a little money of their websites. It is always obvious how some websites make their money or try to make money (me) but have you ever wondered how the big guys do it? According to an article on Valleywag those websites do it just like the other regular do. Most seem to sell ads to specific companies or make specific ad deals. The other majority seems to be using Google Ads to make some money. It seems to be very successful for big sites, not so much for beginners. Yahoo ads seem to be not doing that well since it is not very popular among the “best” 50 websites. It is an interesting list of websites and ads service they use.
Yasser
Metered Internet.
It seems like Time Warner has officially decided to test metered internet in Beaumont, Texas. For those of you who don’t know…people “use” a certain amount of internet every day that could be measured just like your phone minutes. Time Warner is planning on putting limits on the amount of internet you use and charge you if you go over. They are going to have different options or packages, the 5gb bandwidth cap, 200gb and 40gb; there will probably be some in-betweens too. If you are a person who downloads a lot of “stuff” then you could just imagine how quick 5gb would go in a month. Not to mention that these bandwidth caps include upload too. The reason they are doing this is because certain people use more internet than others and it seems unfair that they all pay the same price and suffer the bandwidth speed. This is just a test in little old Texas that might come true for the whole nation if it works out well. This is going to be a really bad idea since it will make Internet less accessible to lower class people and would limit their capabilities in things they could do. I hope no one follows and that they take this odd plan off from Beaumont.
Source: TheRegister.co.uk
Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names.
I found this great article in ITworld.com about the history of five generic domain names: milk.com , meat.com, music.com, eat.com and car.com . These would be names worth a lot in the domain real estate business but yet none of them started as what their name says, they were all geeky websites. It would be worth a lot owning one of these domains.
In this brave new Web 2.0 world, it’s almost a badge of honor to have a Web site name that only hints at what the user will find there (see Flickr) or is so opaque as to offer no clue at all as to what the Web site is about (see del.icio.us). It’s easy to forget the first Internet gold rush of the mid-to-late ’90s, when dot-com domain names based on ordinary (and, investors hoped, marketable) nouns and verbs were snapped up by hopeful companies from the humble geeks who had purchased them (often ironically) in the early ’90s. The weird and wooly history of the Web can best be traced through some of its most generic domains. Here’s a sampling that trace the arc from the geeks to the entrepreneurs and into a more staid corporate world.
Steal This Wi-Fi by Bruce Schneier.
The security expert Bruce Schneier has recently written an article on Wired.com about using Wi-Fi networks that don’t have password protections. His position on this topic is, use it. His own wireless network is not protected so others can use it. The way he sees it is that other people benefit from it. This might come from the same ideology of hackers that everything in the internet should be free and everyone should have access to these. He is not worried about his security because he knows how to secure his computer no matter what network is he on. This is a great article to debate on whether you believe in using your neighbors unprotected WiFi and if you should allow your neighbors use your unprotected wireless network.
Similarly, I appreciate an open network when I am otherwise without bandwidth. If someone were using my network to the point that it affected my own traffic or if some neighbor kid was dinking around, I might want to do something about it; but as long as we’re all polite, why should this concern me? Pay it forward, I say.
Australia Is Going To Censor Internet.
The Australian government has agreed on filtering internet content from the people living in Australia. They join China who has been censoring their internet for a long time now and has created lots of controversy. The reason why Australia wants to censor its internet is because they had supplied Net Nanny to every consumer but were afraid that not everyone was using it correctly or using it at all. The content that they plan to censor are pornography, casino style internet gambling, hate speech and R rated computer games. The problem is that in the future they could add many other things to this filter and end up censoring a lot more, like unwanted media.
Source: TechCrunch.com
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