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January - 2011 - issue > CEO Spot Light
It is the Social Era for Internet
Gautam Godhwani
In the pre-internet epoch, we had specified technologies for using and reusing information. Take printing technology, for example. Compared with today’s constant supply of apps on our social sites, PCs, and mobile devices, book technology is limited: paper, ink, and machines. Hence we need to provide systematic and continuous knowledge for people when we step into the world of Library 2.0, where an unknown set of technical and cultural challenges will emerge.
Over the last two decades, we have seen first the emergence of the Internet as a commercial medium, followed by the advent of Web 2.0 after the dot-com bust. Now we are entering a new era of the Web, which will be shaped by the significant new trends we have seen in recent years.
The Web is no longer just about connections between websites, but has become centered on connections between people. This new era, often referred to as the social web, will redefine the online landscape both by changing how we communicate, and by facilitating the creation of applications that leverage these new social connections. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, for example, all have different social graphs and create interconnections between people in unique ways.
In addition to its changing focus, the Web is now accessed in many more ways. Mobile is dramatically changing how we access information online, not just with mobile browsers, but with applications on platforms like iOS and Android as well. These apps leverage both the Web and the social graph. More people are now on the Web all the time, with the mobile device becoming the main way we stay connected.
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