Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
Is the Web Dead??? NOT!!!
I can not help but respond the main article in this month’s Wired magazine, which proclaims the death of the Web… The headline maybe trouble causing but the graphics are seriously misleading… This is utter nonsense, but many wish it were true… The article is worth reading yaa, but the conclusion drawn is totally insane…
Basically Wired’s proclamation is based on the rise of applications that now invade our daily lives which use the Internet, but do not require browsers… Most of this being sparked by the rise of the iPhone and its app store. And there is no doubt applications that use Internet technology as a platform have gained serious attention with the increased use of smartphones, social media, the iPad, and web enabled DVD players and TV’s that can stream the Internet… But still i’m not going to bury Web now… It’s got plenty of staying power…
The purpose of the chart in Wired’s article to show the way in which the experience of using the internet has changed over time… But this chart measures activity by looking at traffic, the amount of data consumed by each activity… That definitely is the worst way to analyze this… It’s a know fact that 1 hour Skype chat would consume more data than lets say 6 hours of surfing the web… As its pointed out by boingboing.net that this data can be used to point out a drastic growth in browsing the Web…
The Web as we know it still provides the basic foundation of ALL information… This is why Google is an extremely relevant organization… When ever we want to learn how to make something, seek advice, or just feed our curiosity we would always “Google It”… And the reason it would continue to be a relevant organization is tha the Web will continue to be fed more and more information… We might find things like Skype and Blockbuster to be great but these are not the services we use to gain/seek information… You might stop me here saying that social media is a great place tool for finding good information, but to point out that all the links which we get more or less go back to a website and NOT an application…
For me and nearly all of us the Web has always been about seeking information… And i believe it would continue to be… This is why content would always remain important and this in return means that search engines would always be needed no doubt… Imagine the amount of information on the web right now, and just think how much information would be there in lets say 20 years…