The Web : Actors, data, technologies

The Web is both a virtual and real space, a world in which we live through nicks and avatars and an interface with businesses and organizations in the real world.

Actors of the Web

The sites and key services they provide to webmasters.

• Microsoft.
• Bing. The Microsoft's engine vs. Google.
• Google.
• Google+, the quest for the avatar.
• Google sites.
• Anatomy of the search engine.
• History of Knol. A Wikipedia by Google.
• Earth: travel in the World and the time.
• StreetView.
• Calculator.
• Servers and datacenters.
• Tools and services from Google.
• Apple
  Success throught innovation.
• The secret of Apple
  The Job's methodology, by John Sculley.
• Second Life
  A virtual universe that is still expanding.
• Yahoo!
  The success of the collaborative way.
• Mozilla and its projects
  New tools for the Web to come.
• MySpace.
  The rise and the decline.
• Youtube
  Another success story. Best videos.
• Facebook
  Should us register?
• Wolfram Alpha
  A search engine that understands questions.
• Twitter essentials.
• Tweet of the day. Comments from famous people.
• The Dmoz Directory.
• Groupon, the next Internet bubble?
• Wikipedia. Encyclopedia edited by everyone.
  
  Wikileaks. Revealing the secrets of the world.
• What is AOL now?

Technologies

The basics of Web development and the world of browsers.

• Cookies and programming.
• MySQL. The database manager of CMS and Web services.
• WebGL. 3D in the browser.
• WebKit. Rendering engine of Safari and Chrome browsers.
• Xauth.org. Unified authentication service

Statistics

• Key data of the Web.
• Alexa. Knowing the traffic of a website.
• Cybersquatting.

Life and future of the Web

• The future of search engines.
  Vision of the main actors in the domain, and a personal conclusion: the combination of all their ideas.
• Content farms. These chain-producers of articles are a threat for webmasters. What can they do against this scourge? Personal sites aimed only advertising revenue with little content and lots of ads have no future: either they will be replaced by content farms, or they will disappear with them if Google penalizes this type of production. Only quality sites will survive.
• Patents. Ridiculous patents and the war between firms about "intellectual property". A big threat to software authors.
• Big flops in 2010. And also success from web actors.
• New websites and obituaries of the Web. Trends of the web, newly created sites and big sites closed.
• How can a website bankrupt.
• Origine of the name of Web actors.

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