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.

The sites and key services they provide to webmasters.

Actors of the Web

Microsoft

Bing. The Microsoft's engine vs. Google.
Surprising facts about Microsoft.

Google

Google+, the quest for the avatar.
Surprising facts about Google.
Google sites.
Anatomy of the search engine.
History of Knol. A Wikipedia by Google.
Earth: travel in the World and the time.
StreetView.
Calculator.
Tools and services from Google.

Apple
Success throught innovation.

The secret of Apple
The Job's methodology, by John Sculley. Followed by The secret of Apple by Steve Jobs himself.
Surprising facts about Apple.

Second Life
A virtual universe that is still expanding.

Yahoo!
History and sites, the future.

Mozilla
Its surprising projets and new tools for the Web to come.

MySpace.
The rise and the decline.

Youtube
Another success story. Best videos.

Facebook
Should us register?

Surprising facts about Facebook.

Wolfram Alpha
A search engine that understands questions.

Twitter
Essentials.

Alexa
Knowing the traffic of a website.

Dmoz
The directory.

Groupon
The next Internet bubble?

Wikipedia
Encyclopedia edited by everyone.

List of online collaborative encyclopedia.

Wikileaks
Revealing the secrets of the world.

AOL
What is AOL now?

Dailymotion
For pros and amateurs.

Statistics

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.
DIKW and search engines.
To become Dr Know as in the A.I. movie, Google follows the DIKW pyramid that explains how data processing leads to wisdom.
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 on the Web. 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.
Xauth.org. Unified authentication service